1330736 - Massive Performance Problems - constant beachball spinner

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kunal]

Attachment: Firefox 2017-01-12 10.23 profile.sps.json

Constantly getting the beachball and spinner in Firefox. Loading times are slow and when looking at activity center on my mac, firefox is constantly at close to 100% of memory usage. 

I installed the profiler and attached report

Comment 1

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Hi Kunal,

I'm ussing a Mac with FF Nighlty and I didn't have any memory usage problems. 

Can you please describe what are the steps that you are doing to reproduce this issue? 
Please test if the issue can be reproduced in the safe mode of Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
What about a new profile? This is reproducible with a new profile? here are the steps for creating a new profile: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager