Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Very Slow with some JS

[Emmanuel Revah]

On 2012/05/18 01:54, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> On 17-05-2012 19:31, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
> > On 2012/05/17 20:05, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
> >
> > > I am not sure how Flash got involved in this issue, but I have
> > > disabled the Flash plugin (I don't actually even need it), I will
> > > re-test later. It seems a bit better, but I will have to close and
> > > re-open Icecat and do what I can predict will "break" it to see.
> >
> >
> > I've tested a couple of times, doing some predictable thing that 
> > seems to block Icecat. When Flash plugin is disabled it seems all is 
> > fine. In my case I don't need Flash so this seems to fix the issue.
> >
> > If anyone is interested, the version of Flash is: 11.1r102
> >
> >
> > Thanks. : ]
>
> Good, Emmanuel.
>
> If you do not need flash, better keeping it disabled, of course. And
> gnash is a reasonable replacement for the not-free-source one.
>
> I have suggested to disable dom.ipc.plugins.enabled (switch "true" to
> "false" in about:config), because the "symptoms" you have described
> are similar to a problem I and others had with version 6.x (or 5.x,
> can't remember) and later, and was caused by *ash plugin.
>
> If you do not mind, just for the sake of others who want to use the
> *ash plugin, please, could you check that enabling the plugin and
> switching dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to false also solves the problem 
> and
> report to the list the result? I am waiting for IceCat-12.0 to do it
> myself, too.


I can no longer reproduce the errors I had yesterday. Weird.

I re-activated Flash first, just to get back the slowness so I could 
then test with dom.ipc.plugins.enabled:false. Then uninstalled 
no-script, because disabling no-script isn't enough to actually disable 
it... . .

I am giving up on doing any real testing because I can no longer 
re-produce the issues I had previously.  I can report though that last 
night I re-compiled Icecat and added in .mozconfig:


-----------------------------------
--disable-installer
--disable-updater
--disable-parental-controls
--disable-necko-wifi

--with-arch=x86_64
--enable-default-toolkit=cairo-qt
-----------------------------------


The thing is these were the first options I tried, before resorting to 
re-compiling with default options. I am now a bit confused and tired, I 
must admit. Even finding a document that explains what the options are 
actually about is impossible (or each option might be described on a 
different website).

I wish there were a page the explains the options and eventual possible 
values.. (besides going through the source code as someone has 
suggested).

I am just going to use it as is, if it become unusable I will retry 
some of the other options and report back anything pertinent. I am sorry 
to not be of more use right now.



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Emmanuel Revah
http://manurevah.com