580968 - After the computer resumes from hibernation, firefox becomes very slow

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Konstantinos Sfikas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7

After my pc resumes from hibernation, while firefox was running, browsing becomes really slow. The points at which I have noticed most of the problem is at the address bar, where writing an address takes quite some time like the system is searching for something (possibly the entries to the history).
Furthermore, flash is slow on the pages and entering text in the fields and forms seems to stall a bit. Also scrolling stalls before it initiates. This is annoying a lot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Mozilla Firefox with some tabs (pages) opened.
2. Put the system to hibernation.
3. Resume hibernation and attempt to work with firefox again.
Actual Results:  
The whole browsing experience is quite slow (both the GUI and the page browsing).

Expected Results:  
Everything should run smooth like the first time the program was opened.

When I further close and reopen firefox, then everything is back to normal and the speed seems to be OK.
Details on the system running firefox:
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q9300 @ 2800Mhz
RAM: 6GB DDR2
HDD: 150GB + 500GB, free: 60 + 400 resp.
VGA: nvidia 9800gtx

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you please retest with Firefox 3.6.11 or later, and create a fresh brand new profile for testing as well. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles.
If it still happens, please give me an example set of websites that you have open when you do this. I will put my computer to sleep with Firefox open on several websites, but I've never seen this before. But I don't hibernate so I haven't seen that.

Comment 2

[Martin Sch]

see also bug 587940

Comment 3

[victor50]

In FF5 on W7(64) there is a similar problem. The redrawing of the FF window after wakeup from standby or hybernation takes at least 2 seconds, often more, FF seems slower. I noticed similar problems with  Thunderbird 5, where additionally the window gets out of screen range. I have a dual monitor outfit with the taskbar on the second screen and the windows of FF en TB on the mainscreen.

Comment 4

[Jack]

After the computer resumes from standby, firefox 11 portable becomes very slow or even non responsive.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Konstantinos?

(In reply to Tyler Downer [:Tyler] from comment #1)
> Can you please retest with Firefox 3.6.11 or later, and create a fresh brand
> new profile for testing as well.
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles.
> If it still happens, please give me an example set of websites that you have
> open when you do this. I will put my computer to sleep with Firefox open on
> several websites, but I've never seen this before. But I don't hibernate so
> I haven't seen that.

Comment 6

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard

Comment 7

[Rohan Jain]

The same issue consistently happens with Linux too (ArchLinux specifically, FF version 29.0.1). It takes around a minute for firefox to be usable after a suspend to disk.

Comment 8

[Swaroop Kumar]

I can confirm that this happens on arch x64 (as of 30/5/14) with firefox 29.0.1.
Starting with a fresh profile makes no difference.
Note that suspend to ram presents no problem and firefox runs as smooth as ever, but suspend to disk slows it down.