Firefox takes a very long time to load sourceMaps, and doesn't improve during subsequent refreshes
Confirmed on this device (Firefox 33.0 on Linux) and with Firefox 33.0 on Mac OS X Maverics.
Without developer tools open, my site loads in <1s. When developer tools are opened, and I navigate to the debug tab for the first time, the browser consumes 100% of one of my cores for ~60s. It eventually completes the processing (sometimes firefox reports a slow script, but if it is allowed to run, it finishes), and performs normally - sourceMaps seem to work fine. On each subsequent page load, the browser behaves as when navigating to the debug tab for the first time.
Cursory testing in a recent version of Chromium does not have the same slowness.
The site contains a fairly large amount of javacript, which is processed by browserify as part of our build process. Browserify is responsible for generating the sourceMaps.
Ndryshuar
Krejt Përgjigjet (2)
Filead as a bug here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084534
You could try to disable this feature for now by toggling this pref on the about:config page:
- devtools.debugger.source-maps-enabled = false