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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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 Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:42 pm Post subject: What is wrong with my FF browser? |
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| When I open Firefox it takes forever to load the home page. Up to five minutes! Same with other pages but it always eventually loads. Chrome and IE6 work just fine. What do you all think is going on? |
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ladron
Joined: 20 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Are you running XP? That started happening to me after I ran one of the FF updates. When I installed Ein7, the problem went away.
Before installing Win7, I had downloaded and was using an FF pre-fetcher that basically kept FF running all the time, so it started faster. You could give that a try. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| ladron wrote: |
Are you running XP? That started happening to me after I ran one of the FF updates. When I installed Ein7, the problem went away.
Before installing Win7, I had downloaded and was using an FF pre-fetcher that basically kept FF running all the time, so it started faster. You could give that a try. |
Yea. XP. FF have put out a couple of updates this month and it seems each one has made the browser slower or buggier in some way. Oh, well. Switched to Chrome and it's blazing fast. No matter. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| Give opera a shot, FF constant updates and restarts. Chrome, I don't know it's just strange don't like it. Opera is fast and does everything built in rss, web server, sync, block content, email client (don't use it), torrent client, notes, fit to screen, chat. I have disabled the email and torrent clients and skinned it back to the 9.??. Works sweet rarely have a problem displaying pages and if you do you can mask it as explorer or firefox |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| blackjack wrote: |
| Give opera a shot, FF constant updates and restarts. Chrome, I don't know it's just strange don't like it. Opera is fast and does everything built in rss, web server, sync, block content, email client (don't use it), torrent client, notes, fit to screen, chat. I have disabled the email and torrent clients and skinned it back to the 9.??. Works sweet rarely have a problem displaying pages and if you do you can mask it as explorer or firefox |
Might give it a shot. Chrome just doesn't seem right to me, either. |
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ladron
Joined: 20 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| man oh man, I can't live without my FF, though - no ads, no flash (unless I allow it), image zoom, etc. Chrome just didn't do it for me, accessory-wise. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| ladron wrote: |
| man oh man, I can't live without my FF, though - no ads, no flash (unless I allow it), image zoom, etc. Chrome just didn't do it for me, accessory-wise. |
Opera has all that stuff built in so no extensions that stop working on major updates or slow everything down.
Actually my biggest bug with firefox other than the speed and updates is the no close all tabs button, if you want to close that lask tab you have to open a new blank tab. |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| blackjack wrote: |
| ladron wrote: |
| man oh man, I can't live without my FF, though - no ads, no flash (unless I allow it), image zoom, etc. Chrome just didn't do it for me, accessory-wise. |
Opera has all that stuff built in so no extensions that stop working on major updates or slow everything down.
Actually my biggest bug with firefox other than the speed and updates is the no close all tabs button, if you want to close that lask tab you have to open a new blank tab. |
Been using Opera for a few hours now. It has some good features but the interface is a little busy and it doesn't have an ad blocker built in. The internet sure is a different place with all the ads still in plain view.
Also when you open a new tab, it flicks to that tab. probably easy enough to change under the preferences.
One thing I really like and might use when school goes back, is being able to access files on different computers from the browser. The whole "Opera Unite" thing is kind of awesome.
I think I will go back and try to fix my FF install. I am just too used to it. The thing I miss most is my faviconized tabs. As soon as I open FF I have it set up so GReader and my gmail account open automatically in small "faviconized" tabs. This is the link to where I got it from
http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox-extensions/download-of-the-day-faviconizetab-firefox-214948.php
I'm sure I could learn to love Opera but I do most of my net surfing on a netbook. So, the busy-ness of the interface just doesn't do it for me when I need to economize on screen space. My FF install has the menu bar set up to show when you right click and no other erroneous task bars, status bars etc. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| blackjack wrote: |
| ladron wrote: |
| man oh man, I can't live without my FF, though - no ads, no flash (unless I allow it), image zoom, etc. Chrome just didn't do it for me, accessory-wise. |
Opera has all that stuff built in so no extensions that stop working on major updates or slow everything down.
Actually my biggest bug with firefox other than the speed and updates is the no close all tabs button, if you want to close that lask tab you have to open a new blank tab. |
Been using Opera for a few hours now. It has some good features but the interface is a little busy and it doesn't have an ad blocker built in. The internet sure is a different place with all the ads still in plain view.
Also when you open a new tab, it flicks to that tab. probably easy enough to change under the preferences.
One thing I really like and might use when school goes back, is being able to access files on different computers from the browser. The whole "Opera Unite" thing is kind of awesome.
I think I will go back and try to fix my FF install. I am just too used to it. The thing I miss most is my faviconized tabs. As soon as I open FF I have it set up so GReader and my gmail account open automatically in small "faviconized" tabs. This is the link to where I got it from
http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox-extensions/download-of-the-day-faviconizetab-firefox-214948.php
I'm sure I could learn to love Opera but I do most of my net surfing on a netbook. So, the busy-ness of the interface just doesn't do it for me when I need to economize on screen space. My FF install has the menu bar set up to show when you right click and no other erroneous task bars, status bars etc. |
ad blocker
right click anywhere on the page (except for the actual ad. click block content. click everything you want to block. click done at the top. To block only a particular image hit shift while clicking
I don't like the new interface either That is why I have skinned it back to version 9. Go to tools, appearance skins, more skins and version 9 should be one of the first.
To remove bars tools appearance toolbars
To sync between your home computer and netbook go to file start sync
To access files from home computer file enable unite (turns your home computer to a web server) |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| One of my favourite features is the wand. It remembers all your passwords and when you want to log in hit the wand thing next to the home button and it auto fills and logs you in |
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bangbayed
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| ladron wrote: |
Are you running XP? That started happening to me after I ran one of the FF updates. When I installed Ein7, the problem went away.
Before installing Win7, I had downloaded and was using an FF pre-fetcher that basically kept FF running all the time, so it started faster. You could give that a try. |
Yea. XP. FF have put out a couple of updates this month and it seems each one has made the browser slower or buggier in some way. Oh, well. Switched to Chrome and it's blazing fast. No matter. |
Is this the same reason why Firefox sometimes hogs up to 1 GB of ram? |
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Rusty Shackleford
Joined: 08 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| bangbayed wrote: |
| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| ladron wrote: |
Are you running XP? That started happening to me after I ran one of the FF updates. When I installed Ein7, the problem went away.
Before installing Win7, I had downloaded and was using an FF pre-fetcher that basically kept FF running all the time, so it started faster. You could give that a try. |
Yea. XP. FF have put out a couple of updates this month and it seems each one has made the browser slower or buggier in some way. Oh, well. Switched to Chrome and it's blazing fast. No matter. |
Is this the same reason why Firefox sometimes hogs up to 1 GB of ram? |
what is up with that? I had an old toshiba with 200mb of ram and it ran at the same speed as my netbook with 2gb of ram. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:10 am Post subject: |
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Gotta say, I LOVE chrome now. It's my browser of choice. I was a massive firefox fan in the past, but now I'm Chrome all the way. It's so slick and blazing fast.
The only thing I hate is that on the download bar I can't rightclick my downloaded file and tell it to save it to somewhere else. Apart from that it is awesome. When I fire up Firefox to use certain plugins it feels like I stepped back into the 1980s.. it's got all these menu buttons and stuff in my way. Clunky and kind of ugly.
I can't wait until Chrome OS is properly released.. it will revolutionize netbooks and computing in general. Goodbye Microsoft, hello Google. |
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talltony4
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same issues with XP and the latest firefox updates
Ended up doing a drive format and reinstalling everything, and it seems to have fixed it |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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I've always been a FF user, but Chrome is definitely getting more of my attention - especially since they've enable the use of extensions.
I've tried opera, but I just can't see any advantage it has over FF. I have a certain set of extensions I use that suit my browsing preferences; torrent search engine, webmail notifier, speed dial for quick reference, IE tab for pages that only run on Internet Explorer, video downloader for youtube and similar sites, a predictive search engine (like Chrome's search bar).
Right now, FF provides all this and I never have performance issues. However, I'm going to see how the exensions develop on Chrome before I switch to that. |
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