Since all the problems seem to happen on the 2nd+ calls, I tried to replace all mech calls with new/call/undef's. So instead of starting 1 mech and doing lots of get()s I am doing: 

$www=WWW::Mechanize::Firefox->new()
$www->events()
$www->get()
undef $www

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Strangely enough, this change seems to do nothing at all to change the _wait_while_busy hang behaviour! Well, it did one thing, the very first callback call took only 0 sec. Very strange. I'm reverting back to my old code which makes only 1 call to w:m:ff->new().

I should note that I am doing nothing with these pages I'm loading. I'm not filling in forms, or doing other mech stuff. I'm just get()ing, running some regexes on the content()s and then doing a saveurl() of a related file and on to the next get().

I also tried adding this to the wait while loop, to no effect: $self->repl->poll;

In reply to Re^6: WWW::Mechanize::Firefox delayed returns / slow by tcordes
in thread WWW::Mechanize::Firefox delayed returns / slow by tcordes

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