Firefox chokes up for several seconds... frequently

[Stephen Hurd]

Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <51901.1401770318 at server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>>
>>> Since I last updated my ports a couple of weeks ago, the problem
>>> has gotten DRAMATICALLY worse.  Now Firefox is choking up frequently,
>>> and for perhaps 10-20 second each time, on virutally every web site
>>> that I visit.
>> NEVERMIND!
>>
>> I manually rebuilt and re-installed the nspluginwrapper and now
>> everything with Firefox seems to magically be working A-OK again.
> I spoke too soon.
>
> The problem is back again.
>
> As a friend of mine used to say "Problems that go away by themselves
> come back by themselves".
>
> I am still desperately seeking assistance to fix this problem.  I have
> done everything I can to follow the Handbook instructions to the letter
> and Firefox is still choking up on the vast majority of web sites.
> (Apparently, almost every site on the Interwebs these days has a s**t
> load of embedded flash crap on it, you know, to make it look fancy
> schmancy.  I think this is absurdly stupid, but what do I know?)

Try changing "gfx.xrender.enabled" from True to False in about:config.  
This solved a similar problem with scaled images for me a couple years ago.