Firefox 3 - slow?

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I love firefox, and as soon as 3 came out i switched from safari... however, i do find the app to be very slow at times and resource hungry...

an example is lightbox animations (you know on websites where you click an image and the screen fades and the box grows to display the full size one) - well on safari these are fast and fluid, on ff they are juddery and slow...

also i get beach balls, for example i might click bookmarks and it'll take 2-3 seconds to register... similar delays on typing stuff, when i started this post for example i wrote the words "I love firefox" but they didn't appear until a bit later then it all caught up...

I have none of these issues in safari, however safari doesn't have firebug, web developer toolbar and all the other tasty things that come in very useful...

what do other people think?
 
Yeah, have to share the same sentiments with FF3. I have tried and tried to like the program but Safari just does things a lot faster, the only thing that I will miss are a few extensions but as Will_3rd said it is far superior on Linux and Windows machines.
 
Yeah its also the same on Windows though, so don't blame OS X. The time/performance to render jscript is really poor on FF3, they bodge it in some way from FF2, as it would render as good as any other browser then.

But IE even renders the jscript a lot better than FF3, so that proves something isn't right.
 
Maybe its just got too many features or something... they should have made FF3 really lightweight and if you wanted specific features add them yourself through plugins, I'd like to think it'll improve but I can't see them speeding it up realistically its probably a case of waiting until FF4 :(
 
keogh said:
But IE even renders the jscript a lot better than FF3, so that proves something isn't right.
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You definitely don't mean better, and if you do you don't know what you're talking about! Faster, maybe.

Firefox 3 is quite slow. I don't know too much about it, but apparently gecko is quite a behemoth compared with webkit. That, coupled with a non-cocoa UI (I always find Cocoa UIs much faster), javascript and CSS plugins make for it being a lot slower than other browsers. Personally, I'd switch away if the developer extension of Safari was anywhere near as good for me as firebug. Ubiquity is also a great reason to stay with Firefox.
 
Until Safari mates with Squirrelfish Extreme I wouldn't call it "fast", but I'd say it's a step in the right direction over Firefox and *shudder* IE.

Try the latest Webkit builds.. that's some nice thar rendering :D
 
Sic said:
You definitely don't mean better, and if you do you don't know what you're talking about! Faster, maybe.

Firefox 3 is quite slow. I don't know too much about it, but apparently gecko is quite a behemoth compared with webkit. That, coupled with a non-cocoa UI (I always find Cocoa UIs much faster), javascript and CSS plugins make for it being a lot slower than other browsers. Personally, I'd switch away if the developer extension of Safari was anywhere near as good for me as firebug. Ubiquity is also a great reason to stay with Firefox.
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Sorry, I mean't faster, its certainly not better... IE7 sucks! But I'm sure FF3 will catch up.
 
Funny how some people swore by FF3 when it was released, and now are in the Safari boat, eh ;)
 
Wasn't aimed at you.. just in general, when FF3 came out it was amazing how many people came out of hiding to proclaim Safari as crap.

I admit, I tested FF3 and found it to be fast.. but after a short while (the initial installs always are quick) I went back to solely Safari, yet there were many who were stubborn that they'd never use Safari.
 
i had the same problem with firefox 3, it was getting slow

then i can across minefield, which are the nightly build of firefox 3.1 and has the new tracemonkey rendering engine, arstechnica benched it against google's chome and minefield was quicker

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just released their 2nd beta, the final release is rumored to be within the next month

most of the addons don't work unless you install the nightly tester tools and click the override compatiabilty button

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great think about it is you can install it without installing over firefox and it carries over all your setting from firefox, bookmarks, passwords etc

have been testing for over 2 months and its very fast and stable

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The minute Safari get's an EXIF plug-in I'll switch back. Also it would be nice to be able to have Safari automatically add delicious bookmarks when I bookmark a web page.

Panzer
 
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Still not had any problems in FF3 really, or indeed earlier versions. I run it with just a few extensions and when I click on pages, they open. I don't tend to think too seriously about it.
 
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