why is my desktop sluggish?

[William Park]

I have same problem, even though I block Flash and Ads.  My suspicion is
Flash and Javascript, but can't be bothered.  My solution is to kill
Firefox (Ctrl-Q) and restart it.  On restart, Firefox displays button to
"restore" previous session.
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William

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:59:49PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I'm using Gnome on Fedora 18.
> 
> I have a lot of windows and tabs.
> 
> Firefox is huge, lots of windows, but Resident Size is only 1.5GiB out of 
> 6 GiB that the hardware has.  Nothing else is near that.
> 
> Firefox is taking 50% of a core, but heck, I've got four cores.  Nothing 
> else is near that.
> 
> I don't think that anything is eating disk or network bandwidth.
> 
> So why is my desktop window manager laggy?  Dragging a window or creating 
> a new one isn't instant.
> 
> What should I be monitoring / measuring?
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