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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by shock on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:15PM (#17401826)
I wouldn't call it a great release. For me Firefox is unresponsive sometimes for literally minutes. I click on another tab and it takes minutes to switch to it. I just had it happen before posting this comment. I also took a perf profile and asked the people in #perf to look at it but nobody did.

So no, I wouldn't call this a great release.

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by greglindahl on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:38PM (#17402049)
Firefox has tools to figure out which tabs are causing problems, try about:performance. Any freeze of minutes is generally caused by a memory leak in the javascript of a particular page.
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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by kemayo on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @01:54PM (#17402679)
I thought the recent work on multi-process stuff would have gotten rid of that? The browser chrome not being affected by in-page issues seems like a fairly important goal there...
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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by shock on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:39PM (#17404196)
I did look in about:performance, nothing obvious was there. I think it's rather because I have many tabs, not because of a specific tab.
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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by computerfriend on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @09:23PM (#17405164)
I have about 200 tabs on my work machine and something even worse on my personal one and have never seen this, so unless you're a serious tab hoarder I doubt it's that.
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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:01PM (#17403572)
>about:performance //

Where's that in the menus?

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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by untog on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:23PM (#17403702)
It's a URL
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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by kvark on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @12:44PM (#17402113)
I'd be very interested to look into that, haven't seen it being stuck for minutes anywhere. Do you still have this profile around? or maybe just the URL?
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Re:Firefox 61.0 Released by shock on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:38PM (#17404188)
Yes, I still have the profile. If you send me an email to the address in my profile, I'll send it to you.
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