718010 - Intermittent pauses in Firefox 9 on Red Hat

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770121

Description of problem:

There seems to be a very pronounced pausing (of about 1 second) in the Firefox
9 GUI and it affects everything from typing in a text field to interacting with
the tabs, etc.  

It is seems to be related to the sessionstore section of Firefox, since
increasing the browser.sessionstore.interval delays the occurrence of pauses,
while decreasing it makes them more common.

I do recognise that on first impression this is probably isn't a bug since
there are numerous web articles that advise increasing this value to prevent
jerkiness, but I want to stress that this wasn't that noticeable in Firefox 8
or prior versions. But it is very noticeable in version 9 (1 second long
pauses).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-9.0.1-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up Firefox and type or use the tab interface

Actual results:

The interface pauses every few seconds for about 1 second

Expected results:

The experience should be relatively smooth

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

dupe of bug 669034 ?