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Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

wcm190327 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:03:44 GMT

I've used Firefox happily for decades, but lately find that the browser is behaving poorly. It either misses mouse clicks or responds so slowly that I think a click has been missed. This is not a uniform behavior. I don't have any hints of system causes. I also receive "Network Protocol" errors.

My only extension is Roboform, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I am logged in there or not. I generally have fewer than three tabs open and there are no unusual apps competing. When I switch to Edge (yikes), performance immediately improves. Even if I have only four tabs open, I find 17 Firefox tasks when I look at Task Manager.

My system is Windows 11 running on a Dell Precision 7750, 32 GB, I7 (64 bit), 2.3 GHz.

I've also encountered a few sites that fail to work with Firefox, but work fine with Edge. (Sorry, I haven't been logging examples, but it's mostly with forms.)

If this doesn't improve, I might be driven to Edge permanently.

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

Boobieta — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 07:53:39 GMT

Hi, what would be an example of a site where you have issues? When it fails to work, what error does it give? No error? One thing that could help is opening developer tools with F12, and checking for errors there. Refresh the page and see if anything comes up. Also could try disabling the extension, because even if you are not using it, the extension is embeded with the browser, and can infact cause issues like that. Let us know if it improved with the extension disabled. Best regards

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

wcm190327 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:43:29 GMT

I've done a little more investigating. Problem occurs after I read a CNN article. When I click the browser's back arrow, the return to CNN's home page sometimes requires a second click on the back arrow. It is not a matter of slowness or my impatience, but rather it appears that the first back-arrow click is lost and the return will not occur until the second click. I'd say that this occurs on between 1/10 and 1/3 of the articles I read. The problem might be triggered by scrolling on the page via either the scroll bar or the keyboard. The problem doesn't appear if I just go to the article and return.

The extension seems irrelevant to the symptoms. I disabled Roboform and the odd behavior remains.

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

Boobieta — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:15:35 GMT

Hi, I could not replicate, have you tried creating a new profile? if you go to: about:profiles

Seems like you can create a new profile, while keeping the old, i am thinking maybe there is something corrupted or something in that profile.

What version of browser do you have? I got 121.0.1 and don't have that issue, if you don't have the version more up to date, you could try it and see if the behaviour remains.

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

wcm190327 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:19:37 GMT

I have 121.0.1 64 bit. I'm not using a shared profile and I don't see profile in the settings menu. With it being intermittent, I'd say hardware is a problem, except it doesn't show up anywhere but with Firefox and the back arrow.

Thanks.

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

Boobieta — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:08:50 GMT

Certainly odd. You do have the devtools that you can open with F12, cnn.com gives a couple errors here, they show up in console. I am thinking maybe there's a specific error that causes the issue, maybe you can compare between browsing sessions and see if anything stands out when that issue happens.

You could also try the beta version or the nightly to see if it still happens, could be that there were changes in code that fixed it.

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

joef — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:00:03 GMT

Having the same issue here -- after upgrading to 121.0.1, FF becomes noticeably more sluggish than before

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

Yheah — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:31:40 GMT

The version dont matter, all of em are now bugged, only reason i had no problems is that my comp was "high end", even now its bugged af.. Yes yes, send us.. NO! there are hundereds of ppl saying same, sending info dont make it better. Fix it, you have to know what can do it? or are you saying that we cant use ADblock, whitch is not prohibited by laws? cause i tryed. new setup, no problem, second i isntal adblock, boom. i didint even have time to go sites that it works, just boom. Instant... Fix it on say you cant use it, simple?

Re: Sluggish performance of 121.0.1; compatibility

Softfallguys — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:08:28 GMT

I have used FF for decades too yet lately even after cleaning FF us and disabling extensions etc... it performs SO SLOW. I do a comparisons to say chrome and chrome opens and spawns to info real quick. NOt sure what is wrong but may have to dump FF if I cant get a remedy. Anyone have ideas? or actions I can take?