Staggering or pausing for less than a second

Every time I restart Firefox after 15-30m, it starts staggering or freezing every 3 seconds for a half second or so. For example, when I'm bringing down the drag down bar it pauses every 3 seconds or the same thing when I'm highlighting passages. It also affects videos and typing. I've tried reinstalling Firefox completely but the problem came back shortly. The other applications on my laptop aren't having this issue.

Hi j032, I'm not sure what changed. Some users have reported that Firefox 24 used a lot more memory when a lot of tabs were open (e.g., over 100). If you starting having this issue in Firefox 24, maybe it is related to overall memory usage?

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