Firefox running slooooooow

smokedog · 21 Jan 2010 at 21:03

Anyone having performance issues with Firefox. Playing flash video stutters and general browsering lags.

Switched to Google Chrome and its nice and quick, but lacks the plug-in/add-on.

Faded · 21 Jan 2010 at 21:04

Update to 3.6

Fillado · 21 Jan 2010 at 21:10

Update your Flash Player?

smokedog · 21 Jan 2010 at 22:13

Faded said:
Update to 3.6

Ah, didn't know 3.6 was out, thanks.

hyper_piper45 · 21 Jan 2010 at 22:37

I have switched the chromium full time now. The only thing i wish it had was three finger up/down swipe to get the the top/bottom of pages!

Deleted member 651465 · 22 Jan 2010 at 09:35

I've found that Firefox is becoming bloated and slower with each release.

Using Safari on Mac and Chrome on PC has given me much better speed, but then I don't mess about with extensions.

I'd recommend having a dig around in the about:config pages for some speed tweaks if you want to keep using Firefox.

TUNA FISH · 23 Jan 2010 at 19:50

Clearing then limiting my history from 90 to 30 days solved my slow Firefox. For heavy users 90 days of history is massive and I guess with the address bar indexing it the way it does causes problems.

smokedog · 23 Jan 2010 at 22:34

hyper_piper45 said:
I have switched the chromium full time now. The only thing i wish it had was three finger up/down swipe to get the the top/bottom of pages!

Can't you not add this function into MultiClutch?

hyper_piper45 · 24 Jan 2010 at 01:17

smokedog said:
Can't you not add this function into MultiClutch?

Brilliant! Thanks for that. Chromium now rocks my world!

nav... · 24 Jan 2010 at 02:28

EVH said:
I've found that Firefox is becoming bloated and slower with each release.

Quit firefox, backup your profile and move it, so that when firefox starts its a completely vanilla install.

That's how fast its supposed to be. That's where all these fastest firefox ever claims are coming from.

Unfortunately due to the nature of the beast (multiple extensions etc) I imagine that your user profile picks up a lot of cruft over time, which leads to a lot of speed problems.

Somewhat recently I gave up on Firefox and moved full time to Safari, so much faster and I have managed to customise in most of the features I like (I was never a huge extension user). Only thing I miss is web developer toolbar.

Firefox running slooooooow

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