"Twitter.com is loading slowly" after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

[Greg Larkin]

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On 7/17/12 7:56 AM, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm having this problem on two different computers, one running 
> 8.3-STABLE and the other running 9.0-STABLE. After updating Firefox
> from 12.0 to 13.0.1, whenever I access twitter.com, I can log in
> but after that a message appears saying that "Twitter.com is
> loading slowly", and the site is practically unusable - clicking on
> any of the links has no effect.
> 
> Various support sites say that this may be a problem with Firefox 
> extensions or plugins, or some difficult-to-find problem which may
> be worked around by clearing cache and cookies, or trying with a
> new Firefox profile.
> 
> For testing, I have disabled all extensions and plugins. I have
> also tried moving my ~/.mozilla directory out of the way so that
> new empty profile is created. None of this has helped. The fact
> that this is happening on two totally different machines is leading
> me to think that maybe this is some peculiarity in a way that
> Firefox is compiled on FreeBSD, so I decided to ask if anyone else
> is seeing this.
> 
> When updating Firefox to 13.0.1, I didn't change any port
> configuration options from what I was using previously: cat
> /var/db/ports/firefox/options # This file is auto-generated by
> 'make config'. # Options for firefox-13.0.1,1 
> _FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=DBUS PGO DEBUG LOGGING
> OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=DBUS OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PGO 
> OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DEBUG OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=LOGGING 
> OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS
> 

Hi Toomas,

I ran into this problem with FF13 on OS X over the weekend, and I
fixed it with a suggestion I found somewhere online:

Open the about:config preference pane in FF.  Change the
http.keep-alive property to "true", and you should be all set.

Hope that helps,
Greg

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