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Opening new tab causes intense lag

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exoshelter
exoshelter
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Ever since I updated to Firefox 57, opening a new tab has caused my entire desktop to lag out, stopping me from all navigation and freezing Firefox for 5-30 seconds. This doesn't happen when I'm opening one of my bookmarks in a new tab, or even any link with content on it - it's exclusively when I open a new blank tab. I've tried disabling all of the content on the new tab page, but the problem still persists. As it is now, I've started opening a new Facebook tab before doing what I want because it's quicker and less destructive!

I'm running an i7 with 16Gb of RAM, so my computer isn't the problem - indeed, I didn't have this problem with the previous version of Firefox either. I've tried refreshing the install but the problem persists. Any ideas?

Ever since I updated to Firefox 57, opening a new tab has caused my entire desktop to lag out, stopping me from all navigation and freezing Firefox for 5-30 seconds. This doesn't happen when I'm opening one of my bookmarks in a new tab, or even any link with content on it - it's exclusively when I open a new blank tab. I've tried disabling all of the content on the new tab page, but the problem still persists. As it is now, I've started opening a new Facebook tab before doing what I want because it's quicker and less destructive! I'm running an i7 with 16Gb of RAM, so my computer isn't the problem - indeed, I didn't have this problem with the previous version of Firefox either. I've tried refreshing the install but the problem persists. Any ideas?

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can you please test if the following steps can fix the performance issue you're seeing & let us know how this goes?: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named accessibility.force_disabled. double-click it, change its value to 1 and restart firefox once.

thanks

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philipp
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hi exoshelter, thanks for reporting this problem - what would immensely help in diagnosing the lag is if you could capture and share a performance profile while the problem is occurring, like it's described at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance/Reporting_a_Performance_Problem (you can leave out steps 1-3 about installing the latest nightly).

hopefully this can give us some clues what is going wrong. thank you!

exoshelter
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Here you go! This was just switching from Facebook to a blank new tab I think - https://perfht.ml/2AWi9GO

philipp
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Chosen Solution

can you please test if the following steps can fix the performance issue you're seeing & let us know how this goes?: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named accessibility.force_disabled. double-click it, change its value to 1 and restart firefox once.

thanks

exoshelter
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I've been testing it for about a minute but I think that has fixed it! Thank you so much!!

Bill18441
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Beginning around Firefox 57, each time I opened a new tab, the new tab displayed tiles of content related to my recent browsing history, along with new suggested stuff I had no interest in, and my CPU simultaneously got stuck at 25% for 15-60 sec, apparently from something creating all the tiles/suggestions.

After googling how to adjust firefox new tab content, I found a new tab content knob was recently removed. Suggested fix was to install the "New Tab Override" addon. I installed that and selected, within its options, "blank page" for new tab content. PRESTO!!! Nice, blank new tabs w/ NO MORE DELAYS!!!