1008713 - Windows XP Performance Issues

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Wesley Branton]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

This issue has occurred since the Firefox 29.0 update.
The Firefox 29.0.1 patch did not resolve the issue.
No other changes were performed.


Actual results:

Firefox 29.0.1 has a poor performance on Windows XP Service Pack 3 operating systems. The following issues occur:
* Choppy scrolling
* Choppy video/audio playback on websites other than YouTube
* Slow website loading
* Slow user action response


Expected results:

All performance issues should have been fixed.

Comment 1

[William Schlitz]

System specs? 

Also try resetting your profile.

Comment 2

[Wesley Branton]

(In reply to William Schlitz from comment #1)
> System specs? 
> 
> Also try resetting your profile.

Please view my Speccy report here:
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/hy7ySiZhDQiQ4OCB5LptNiU

Comment 3

[Wesley Branton]

By the way, this issue also occurs on another computer that is similar to mine.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to William Schlitz from comment #1)
> System specs? 
> 
> Also try resetting your profile.

less disruptive would be safe mode https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

also, does problem go away if you revert to version 28
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/28.0/win32/en-US/

Comment 5

[Wesley Branton]

Safe mode does fix the issue now. I didn't before.

Ok, it appears to have been the theme that was the issue, but I am not 100% sure.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

if it turns out to not be the theme, feel free to reopen