When running curl -L -H "Accept: text/html" http://dbpedia.org/resource/Earth output stops at several times. It fontifies parts of the output - fontification is gone when finished. See attachments for freezes during output No delay in system bash BTW. In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5, cairo version 1.14.0)  of 2020-06-10 Repository revision: ee8b2742d7f6d03daea37f1bac48c2746f7ca789 Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11604000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Mark set [4 times] Quit Mark set 5 0 Configured using:  'configure --with-modules --with-mailutils' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS PDUMPER GMP Important settings:   value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Shell Minor modes in effect:   shell-dirtrack-mode: t   tooltip-mode: t   global-eldoc-mode: t   electric-indent-mode: t   mouse-wheel-mode: t   tool-bar-mode: t   menu-bar-mode: t   file-name-shadow-mode: t   global-font-lock-mode: t   font-lock-mode: t   blink-cursor-mode: t   auto-composition-mode: t   auto-encryption-mode: t   auto-compression-mode: t   line-number-mode: t   transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date subr-x cl-loaddefs cl-lib shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 173153 8669)  (symbols 24 30041 1)  (strings 16 65618 1981)  (string-bytes 1 1087478)  (vectors 8 13865)  (vector-slots 4 381518 22024)  (floats 8 25 46)  (intervals 28 2390 2)  (buffers 564 11)  (heap 1024 15133 888))