Firefox, why is it slow? |
 Aug 30 2009, 12:39 AM
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 kthxbai  Group: Official Designer Posts: 2,832 Joined: Feb 2008 Member No: 621,203  |
My god... and I thought IE was slow.
So I've been using Firefox as my main browser for about a year now. I must say, up until now I have ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. Although, recently, I have noticed that Firefox is running extremely slowly now. I thought this was my internet connection, and that I couldn't do anything about it. I tried using Google chrome to view things, and it was like my computer was brand spankin' new. It was absolutely fantastic... kind of like the first time I used Firefox. I don't get it. It's not like you store files into your web browser (temporary internet files? -- I already deleted those), so I don't know why Firefox is running slower than Chrome. I thought Mozilla always bragged about how fast Firefox was. I tried IE, too, but don't get me started on that one :P it's still slower than a dead snail. So what can I do to speed up Firefox? I do not like Google chrome AT ALL. It's amazingly fast, but I just love my Firefox and I want to be able to use it more.. just faster. WAY faster. |
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Aug 31 2009, 09:22 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 1,574 Joined: Aug 2007 Member No: 555,438 |
I like chrome.
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Aug 31 2009, 10:17 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 5,880 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 593,382 |
QUOTE(Uronacid @ Aug 31 2009, 09:22 AM)  I like chrome. 
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Aug 31 2009, 10:18 AM
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 Sex, Blood, & RocknRoll Group: People Staff Posts: 5,305 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 596,480 |
I tried chrom but hated it.
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Sep 1 2009, 08:31 AM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 1,574 Joined: Aug 2007 Member No: 555,438 |
QUOTE(IWontRapeYou @ Aug 31 2009, 11:18 AM) I tried chrom but hated it. It's alright. I have to say there isn't anything that really stands out, but it's fast and loads pages properly. |
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Sep 6 2009, 10:45 PM
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 Senior Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 1,507 Joined: Sep 2007 Member No: 571,541 |
why cause they are RIGHT?
 get IE8.. |
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Sep 6 2009, 11:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 142 Joined: Aug 2009 Member No: 742,752 |
Firefox has never given me problems..if you don't like it try Opera.
Facebook is just...slow. slower than myspace..which I thought was also slow. think of all the adds and apps on facebook and such... slllloqqqqqq |
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Sep 6 2009, 11:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 5,880 Joined: Nov 2007 Member No: 593,382 |
QUOTE(-Jon- @ Sep 6 2009, 10:45 PM) why cause they are RIGHT? get IE8.. Ur joking? Gtfo n00b! |
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Sep 7 2009, 10:17 AM
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Senior Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 1,507 Joined: Sep 2007 Member No: 571,541 |
no im not.. IE8 is reliable.. well to me that is..
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Sep 7 2009, 02:18 PM
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 /人◕‿‿◕人\ Group: Official Member Posts: 8,283 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 602,927 |
IE8 has nearly as many security holes as IE7, and more than IE6.
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Sep 7 2009, 03:04 PM
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 Tick tock, Bill Group: Administrator Posts: 8,764 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 333,948 |
QUOTE(mipadi @ Aug 30 2009, 08:58 AM) The speed of your browser has almost nothing to do with its history size. You probably have a misbehaving add-on that's either taking up a lot of memory or using a lot of CPU time. Late on this, but my FF was running horribly slow until I removed a bunch of add-ons (still not sure which one was causing problems). Perhaps none of them were causing problems and it's only a coincidence that my FF browser is running wonderfully now. Either way, I'm happy. It was taking over 5 minutes for iGoogle to completely load (and it's fairly empty). |
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