firefox still slow

[RJ Hythloday]

i've followed several guides on getting firefox configured for kubuntu, but loading web pages is still painfully slow. Has anyone come up w/ anything new?

[marshallbanana]

Re: firefox still slow

Konqueror

[RJ Hythloday]

Re: firefox still slow

Konqueror

I don't want to give up foxmarks, addons etc.

[trident_2008]

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addons

Maybe it's some faulty add-on? Did you try to disable them one by one?

[RJ Hythloday]

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addons

Maybe it's some faulty add-on? Did you try to disable them one by one?

no I haven't, but there have been alot of other posts about firefox being slow in gutsy.

[Fintan]

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i've followed several guides on getting firefox configured for kubuntu.......

Which ones would those be, so we can exclude them from any further advice

[RJ Hythloday]

Re: firefox still slow

one was blacklisting ipv6 in about:config

the other was in the blacklist.conf

I've also spent alot of time getting yahoo to look right and adding some fonts to firefox.

[Fintan]

Re: firefox still slow

If you have a braodband connection this may be of use:

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

I've also spent alot of time getting yahoo to look right

Yahoo doesn't like FF and Linux much less

[RJ Hythloday]

Re: firefox still slow

If you have a braodband connection this may be of use:

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

[b]Thanx, I'll try that, it sounds like what faster fox does by default but I'll check, I did finally get yahoo looking right, for a while the close tabs were missing in mail as well as the compose button, my home page looked even worse, I had either white or gray back ground and all the frames were messed up, but it's looking like normal my.yahoo now.
I've also spent alot of time getting yahoo to look right

Yahoo doesn't like FF and Linux much less

[Fintan]

Re: firefox still slow

I had either white or gray back ground and all the frames were messed up, but it's looking like normal my.yahoo now.
I've also spent alot of time getting yahoo to look right

If yahoo would code for W3 and not for IE we wouldn't have that problem.

That said, if the FF people would pay as attention to the lnux version as it does for the win/mac versions we would much happier as well.

Font size rendering in flash pages still simply sucks with FF in lnux

[RJ Hythloday]

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That said, if the FF people would pay as attention to the lnux version as it does for the win/mac versions we would much happier as well...

It seems a bit ironic, since it started as a *nix app!

[RJ Hythloday]

Re: firefox still slow

I'm using adblock, ab+, ab+ element hiding helper, add to search bar, cooliris preview, custom buttons, download statusbar, fasterfox, foxmarks, foxytunes, map+, menumod, pdf download, status buttons, tab mix plus, ubufox, user agent switcher.

The ones I didn't use in m$ are cooliris, pdf dl, tab mix, ubufox, and agent switcher. I have prefetching enabled in cooliris, so I'm going to turn it off, I don't know if it would slow down the initial load. I've just added it a few days ago though and it was slow before that.


Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"

These were already set to true, I'm pretty sure by faster fox

max.req was 8 which I remember it being in m$, I set it to 30 for now, but I know it can really hammer some websites.

[synaptik]

Re: firefox still slow

Whoa, that's likely your problem--too many problematic extensions.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions

First of all, you don't need both Adblock Plus and Adblock. Just use Adblock because the Adblock Plus is no longer in development. You shouldn't need the AB+ element hinding help, either, as Adblock should take care of it.

Ironiclly, an older version of Fasterfox caused Firefox to hang. You are probably not using this version, but be sure to check.

Foxytunes is known to be a resource hog.

TabMixPlus has a history of not being compatible with other applications, so, while it may work okay with everything you have, check to be sure.

An older version of User Agent Switcher also caused FF to hang, so check your version against the one on the list.

If you have a lot of bookmarks, this can slow down FF reponsiveness as well.

Also... on the off chance you've been upgrading all along (since FF came about) and never done a fresh install, do a fresh install. <--- very unlikely

The easiest way to see how FF behaves naturally is to start in Safe Mode:
From terminal just type firefox -safe-mode

FWIW, Firefox has always been clunky for me in Linux, even in Safe Mode. I don't mean loading webpages, I mean, just doing things within the application like switch (already loaded) tabs, going through the menus, etc.

I like my applictions to be snappy, so even though I use KDE, my browser of choice is Epiphany. Epiphany is great in that you can use many Firefox extensions with it (I use Flashblock, for example). It is always fast to load and responsive.

There are some limitations with Epiphany (well, moreso with the webpages I'm trying to view), so I also use Opera. It is equally fast and responsive. However, configuring plugins in Opera can be a bit trickier at first.

[RJ Hythloday]

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thanks for the tips, some of those I installed just recently after reading testimonials of them on forums, but I certainly don't use all of them. foxmarks and add to searchbar are the only essentials. That's a good tip about addblock.

[DeathKitten]

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I've noticed that Firefox 3 runs a lot better than Firefox 2 does. Even though I'm missing my beloved Gmail manager extension, because it hasn't been updated to work with the beta yet, I've been using Firefox 3 full time since I found and installed the package.

Gmail actually had been making Firefox 2 crash for me since they released their new version, but since I started using Firefox 3, I've been able to leave it open in a tab full time and do all the things that could crash the browser in Firefox 2.

You might give the beta a go, see if your essential extensions have been updated for the beta, and see if that helps. Good luck.