Firefox 3.6.6 / Slack 13.0 x86_64 - So Slowwwwww....
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From: geep on 4 Jul 2010 07:16 Hi, Since I updated to Firefox 3.6.6 it is so slow. It takes minutes to start up, and then the perfornance is awful. Scrolling up and down a page - sometimes OK and sometimes it momentarily freezes. And sometimes clicking links is not responsive. Seamonkey 2.0.5 is like lightning on the same pages in comparison. Anybody else see this problem? Any ideas about a solution? I have already reinstalled it. Didn't have these problems with the previous Firefox - maybe I'll revert. Cheers, Peter
From: barnabyh on 4 Jul 2010 07:21 On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 11:16:16 +0000 (UTC) geep <geep(a)boursomail.com> wrote: > > Didn't have these problems with the previous Firefox - maybe I'll > revert. > > Cheers, > Peter Don't have this problem on 486, FF is very fast. Actually never have FF crashing and all the things people complain about with it. Did you try a new profile, or maybe deleting extensions if you have any? Cheers, Barnabyh -- The general public is a bunch of morons who destroy the fun and life in everything it collectively touches. Disney is what the public wants. NASCAR is what the public wants. Windows is what the public wants. (Slashdot, Monday March 28 2005, Gnome Removed From Slackware.)
From: Robert Komar on 4 Jul 2010 13:20 geep <geep(a)boursomail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Since I updated to Firefox 3.6.6 it is so slow. > It takes minutes to start up, and then the perfornance is awful. > Scrolling up and down a page - sometimes OK and sometimes it momentarily > freezes. > And sometimes clicking links is not responsive. > > Seamonkey 2.0.5 is like lightning on the same pages in comparison. > > Anybody else see this problem? > Any ideas about a solution? I have already reinstalled it. > > Didn't have these problems with the previous Firefox - maybe I'll revert. > > Cheers, > Peter I had similar problems until I updated my flash plugin. Look in ~/.xsession-errors for problem logs; they'll probably tell you what is really wrong. Cheers, Rob Komar
From: geep on 6 Jul 2010 15:49 On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:20:26 +0000, Robert Komar wrote: > geep <geep(a)boursomail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> Since I updated to Firefox 3.6.6 it is so slow. It takes minutes to >> start up, and then the perfornance is awful. Scrolling up and down a >> page - sometimes OK and sometimes it momentarily freezes. >> And sometimes clicking links is not responsive. >> >> Seamonkey 2.0.5 is like lightning on the same pages in comparison. >> >> Anybody else see this problem? >> Any ideas about a solution? I have already reinstalled it. >> >> Didn't have these problems with the previous Firefox - maybe I'll >> revert. >> >> Cheers, >> Peter > > I had similar problems until I updated my flash plugin. Look in > ~/.xsession-errors for problem logs; they'll probably tell you what is > really wrong. > > Cheers, > Rob Komar Thanks for the suggestions guys. The solution turned out to be something different - and very simple. I noticed that root didn't have the same slowness - so I wondered if the user's cache or something was corrupted.. So I renamed my user's ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla.old - having first exported all my bookmarks. Next run of firefox recreated ~/.mozilla and all problems of slowness gone. Imported the bookmarks and job's a good'un. Cheers, Peter
From: Jim Diamond on 7 Jul 2010 11:21
On 2010-07-06 at 19:21 ADT, barnabyh <abuse(a)spamtrap.org> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:49:41 +0000 (UTC) > geep <geep(a)boursomail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:20:26 +0000, Robert Komar wrote: >> >> > geep <geep(a)boursomail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the suggestions guys. >> >> The solution turned out to be something different - and very simple. >> I noticed that root didn't have the same slowness - so I wondered if >> the user's cache or something was corrupted.. >> >> So I renamed my user's ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla.old - having first >> exported all my bookmarks. Next run of firefox recreated ~/.mozilla >> and all problems of slowness gone. Imported the bookmarks and job's a >> good'un. >> >> Cheers, >> Peter > barnabyh replies: > Told you it was the profile, it is behind 99% of perceived problems > with FF. Yeah, but that is only a partial answer. For example, if you had had some plugin which was causing you grief, then you might once again come to grief if you re-install the plugin. Or, if you had lots of windows open when it was eating CPU time, and it isn't now but you only have one window with one tab open, then you might find the problem re-occurs later. Currently firefox 3.6.6. is sucking up about 61% of my Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz. Before upgrading to 2.6.6 it usually only sat there consuming about 25% of CPU time. Which I think is itself ludicrous, when I am not actively using firefox, and the only thing that should, in principle, be using CPU time is some annoying web site which feels the need to update an image every 5 or 10 seconds. In case anyone is still reading this thread, let me add on a new question. Sometimes (1 in 10?) when I resume from S2R, firefox goes berserk and sucks up 100% of my CPU time. (100% of one core.) Now that there seem to be two firefox processes sucking CPU time (/usr/lib64/firefox-3.6.6/firefox-bin and /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6.6/plugin-container) it has the ability to suck up 100% on both cores. Does anyone else here see firefox do this to you when your laptop wakes up from suspend? Thanks. Jim |