(possibly) Facebook making FireFox ridiculously slow...

Flare · 19 Jan 2010 at 20:58

To the point of it being utterly unusable! Anyone have any idea why?
It only seems to have happened recently.

Thanks,

Flare

MTA99 · 20 Jan 2010 at 00:00

I've been getting similar problems, mainly when using FB Chat.

FF 3.5.7

Locke · 20 Jan 2010 at 00:03

Have you tried updating Facebook?

TheVoice · 20 Jan 2010 at 00:06

Yep, it's Facebook Chat for me too, happens whenever anyone starts typing or sends a message. Everything else freezes up for a second or two.

Squark · 20 Jan 2010 at 00:11

FB Chat always crashes Firefox for me

MTA99 · 20 Jan 2010 at 00:13

Locke said:
Have you tried updating Facebook?

Yeah, I uninstalled it, rebooted the internet then got the latest version

Mattus · 20 Jan 2010 at 01:18

No problems for me. Have you tried the Firefox 3.6 RC, or else making a new Firefox profile?

Jongo · 20 Jan 2010 at 02:13

Flare said:
To the point of it being utterly unusable! Anyone have any idea why?
It only seems to have happened recently.

Thanks,

Flare

ive noticed this as well, kinda annoying. Starting to use my chrome install more and more now.

NickM · 20 Jan 2010 at 02:55

Its FB chat, started happening to me today as well.

NeverWinter · 20 Jan 2010 at 04:22

Yup...

swinnie · 20 Jan 2010 at 07:27

I never use Facebook in Firefox, I've found it far too unstable - I offload it to the second screen in Chrome.

fail at the internets · 20 Jan 2010 at 09:15

Jongo said:
ive noticed this as well, kinda annoying. Starting to use my chrome install more and more now.

same.

Infam0us · 20 Jan 2010 at 14:52

NeverWinter said:
Yup...

Smit · 20 Jan 2010 at 15:47

Doesn't FB chat require some type of Quick Time?
On my works machine, it always says a plug-in is missing the first time I try to chat to anyone. At home or in IE (with QT installed) it does not appear

Flare · 20 Jan 2010 at 16:25

Smit said:
Doesn't FB chat require some type of Quick Time?
On my works machine, it always says a plug-in is missing the first time I try to chat to anyone.

it's exactly the same with me, i'll tryinstalling quicktime and see what that does.

i wonder why it has recently become so unstable? :confused:

tolien · 20 Jan 2010 at 16:36

Faceballs chat uses JavaScript. You don't need QuickTime nor any other plugin. It's pretty much always been awfully implemented and quite frequently breaks.
That said, it works fine here.

Greenlizard0 · 20 Jan 2010 at 17:12

The chat function brings Opera down to its knees as well.

Smit · 20 Jan 2010 at 17:21

tolien said:
Faceballs chat uses JavaScript. You don't need QuickTime nor any other plugin. It's pretty much always been awfully implemented and quite frequently breaks.
That said, it works fine here.

It works without QuickTime but very unstable. The first message you receive refreshes the page and the FF pop-up thingy instructs you that you are missing a plugin. It is QuickTime that is missing.

If you stay on the one page then you can continue to chat to someone, but if you navigate away from that page or open an app for example, as soon as someone sends you a new message (first message of the chat) your app will refresh and again a missing plugin message will appear

tolien · 20 Jan 2010 at 17:33

It definitely isn't using QuickTime here :confused:

Edit: Just disabled QuickTime and used it, no missing plugin warning...could it be trying to use it to play the popping noise when you get a message?

swinnie · 20 Jan 2010 at 17:34

tolien said:
It definitely isn't using QuickTime here

Edit: Just disabled QuickTime and used it, no missing plugin warning...

Same here.