FireFox 3.5 is slow and leaky for me

[zebano]

I run Opera 10 beta 2 and love it.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

yeah you're right. not sure what exactly is causing the performance issues because i've used FF for years on many many systems and I never had any major issues. it may also be the FF profile or addons.

Originally posted by: SoftwareEng

Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
i loved FF2 also but when 3 and 3.5 came out, the speed increase is very noticeable. I used to get crashes semi regularly in FF2 but now i rarely ever do.
maybe you have to reformat or something, because even on slower systems i install it on, it is still pretty fast and doesn't have too many issues.

reformat? Reformatting and reinstalling your OS won't fix memory leaks and performance problems with a stand-alone application like Firefox

 

[intvijay]

But I love Firefox 3.5 ... And always and for ever ...

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: seemingly random
Loaded ff 3.51 on xp a couple of days ago with adblock, flagfox and stumbleupon. When I bring up 'topic tools/subscribe' to unsubscribe from a thread in atforums, the pc will 'hang'. It will eventually come back in 5-10 minutes. This didn't happen in ff 2.x.

Also, with page size in atforums set to 100, around post 60-70, things get corrupted. This has been a problem since 2.x and is one of the reasons I don't usually use ff. If it can't do this simple thing, what else does it fail at...

chrome is surprising attractive. It's curious since I would think that by now all browsers would be pretty much the same but there are likable differences in each. One thing I don't like about chrome is that it screws up yahoo mail screen refresh occasionally.

I also hang on the subscribe window, however it didn't do it for me until ver 3.x .

 

[seemingly random]

Originally posted by: Muadib

Originally posted by: seemingly random
Loaded ff 3.51 on xp a couple of days ago with adblock, flagfox and stumbleupon. When I bring up 'topic tools/subscribe' to unsubscribe from a thread in atforums, the pc will 'hang'. It will eventually come back in 5-10 minutes. This didn't happen in ff 2.x.

Also, with page size in atforums set to 100, around post 60-70, things get corrupted. This has been a problem since 2.x and is one of the reasons I don't usually use ff. If it can't do this simple thing, what else does it fail at...

chrome is surprising attractive. It's curious since I would think that by now all browsers would be pretty much the same but there are likable differences in each. One thing I don't like about chrome is that it screws up yahoo mail screen refresh occasionally.

I also hang on the subscribe window, however it didn't do it for me until ver 3.x .

3.51 is the 3.xx version I've tried since I set atforums posts/screen count to 100 and wanted to give ff a chance at redemption. ff still corrupts screen refresh ~60-70. Oh, well. I'll probably use ff/noscript for possible dodgy sites but not in general.

 

[Harvey]

Clicking links to Acrobat pdf's spikes CPU usage to 100% and hangs Firefox 3.51 like it was at a lynching. My old Netscape 7.22 doesn't do that. Screw this POS!

< update >

I may have found a work around for links to pdf files, illustrated, here.

I made the recommended change to use the separate, installed Adobe Reader application. I've only been running it this way for about 15 minutes, and it seems to speed up everything. No hangs on pdf's, at least so far.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I've had to do that as well because of adobe's strange behavior sometimes, but it works pretty well now.

Originally posted by: Harvey
Clicking links to Acrobat pdf's spikes CPU usage to 100% and hangs Firefox 3.51 like it was at a lynching. My old Netscape 7.22 doesn't do that. Screw this POS!

< update >

I may have found a work around for links to pdf files, illustrated, here.

I made the recommended change to use separate Adobe Reader application. I've only been running it this way for about 15 minutes, and it seems to speed up everything. No hangs on pdf's, at least so far.

 

[Harvey]

< update >

Don't even think twice about not doing the change noted in my previous post. FF 3.51 now loads much faster. Now, scrolling pages is smoother, and even my bookmarks display faster and without as much of the herky-jerky feel they were displaying before the change.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Harvey
< update >

Don't even think twice about not doing the change noted in my previous post. FF 3.51 now loads much faster. Now, scrolling pages is smoother, and even my bookmarks display faster and without as much of the herky-jerky feel they were displaying before the change.

Thanks Harvey, will do. Now if they could fix the damn Flash stuff (causes more headaches than it's worth...may get a flash blocker and be done with it).

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: Harvey
< update >

Don't even think twice about not doing the change noted in my previous post. FF 3.51 now loads much faster. Now, scrolling pages is smoother, and even my bookmarks display faster and without as much of the herky-jerky feel they were displaying before the change.

Thanks Harvey, will do. Now if they could fix the damn Flash stuff (causes more headaches than it's worth...may get a flash blocker and be done with it).

Another FF 3.51 failure that pisses me off a lot is that it's not compatible with Realplayer's Browser Record plug in that allows you to download flash videos. Even worse, if you have the plug in installed when you "updated" to 3.5 or 3.51, the listing is greyed out, and the only way to remove it by editing it from your Registry.

Fracks!!! This plug in, and Flash, in general, existed long before this version was released. There's no reason they shouldn't have known about the problems or that they should have allowed this version to hit the streets with these bugs.

AFIC, that's not just piss poor coding; it's piss poor ethics! :|

 

[Harvey]

The links were down shortly after I first posted them. They're now working, but if they fail again, here are the instructions:

1. Open Firefox.

2. Click "Tools"

3. Select "Options"

4. Click "Applications"

5. Find all listed Adobe Acrobat applications.

Click each, one at a time. My system shows four. Yours may differ. Click the down arrow tab at the right end of the window, and change the default application from "Use Adobe Acrobat (in Firefox)" to "Use Adobe Reader [version] (default)."

That's it. I think you'll find it helps a lot. It did for my machine.

 

[ForumMaster]

try the latest build of opera 10. i belive they're up to beta 2? quite stable and faster then ff 3.5. i love it. also doesn't use memory like a whole goddamn OS...

they're getting ready for an RC i believe final release should be soon.

 

[KeypoX]

yeah big problems with 3.5. As noted an many sites. Was supposed to be fixed with updates but its only gotten worse for me.

I would love another browser but need. Adblock, xmarks, fast dial. Fast dial is covered with opera but what about the others

 

[JackMDS]

I got rid of 3.5 and installed back 3010 (the only version that I has in full stored file) and then updated on line it to 3012.

It works much better than 3.0/3.5

The only difference is that at startup 3.5 starts few seconds faster.

I rather wait few seconds at startup than enduring the hours of pain after.

 

[Engineer]

Just a note: So far, the 3.5.2 (Beta) using Harvey's suggestion above has been solid. I don't run much stuff so I can't tell 100%, but it does seem better than previous versions (placebo effect??). Anyway, my 2 cents and report.

 

[KeypoX]

well for some reason now my gmail wont load? Anyone know a fix, google turns up many reports of gmails problems, but not fixes i can find. Works 100% in IE.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
I got rid of 3.5 and installed back 3010 (the only version that I has in full stored file) and then updated on line it to 3012.

It works much better than 3.0/3.5

The only difference is that at startup 3.5 starts few seconds faster.

I rather wait few seconds at startup than enduring the hours of pain after.

Do you have link for that old version? This is the first time in years FF has been this bad to me.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: JackMDS
I got rid of 3.5 and installed back 3010 (the only version that I has in full stored file) and then updated on line it to 3012.

It works much better than 3.0/3.5

The only difference is that at startup 3.5 starts few seconds faster.

I rather wait few seconds at startup than enduring the hours of pain after.

Do you have link for that old version? This is the first time in years FF has been this bad to me.

One word filehippo.

 

[seemingly random]

I've been going to filehippo more often lately. It's a nice, clean repository. Not sure how they make money though.

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Do you have link for that old version? This is the first time in years FF has been this bad to me.

Bookmark oldversion.com for lots of older versions of popular progs.

Old versions of Firefox from 0.8 - 3.0.4.

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: dereth
Absolutely terrible!

I'm using Firefox at work on an HP 2510p Core 2 Duo ULV 1.6Ghz with 2gb RAM. No matter what I do, it gets unbearably slow after an hour or 2. Using Safari, IE6 (Yes, still IE 6 on XP) and Chrome poses no problems.

At home, it's an iMac 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4gb RAM... Same case. 1 Window about 6-7 tabs. Times I have to transfer the URLs one by one slowly from FF to Safari and then restart FF to start afresh. Downgrading to 3.0.x solved this problem.

I've warned my wife (on Windows Vista) not to upgrade to FF 3.5 and she's still happy with FF 3.0.12.

You're def doing something wrong; I leave mine open for days before it feels at all slow.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Harvey

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Do you have link for that old version? This is the first time in years FF has been this bad to me.

Bookmark oldversion.com for lots of older versions of popular progs.

Old versions of Firefox from 0.8 - 3.0.4.

Oldversion is excellent as well!

 

[SoftwareEng]

My instance of Firefox 3.5.1 has been running for a few days, and with a single window/tab left, it's up to 700 MB of memory. Installed 3.5.2, maybe it's better... Haha right

Visual Studio 2005 uses 1/5th of that RAM

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: SoftwareEng
My instance of Firefox 3.5.1 has been running for a few days, and with a single window/tab left, it's up to 700 MB of memory. Installed 3.5.2, maybe it's better... Haha right

Visual Studio 2005 uses 1/5th of that RAM

What is the single window/tab ? If it makes you feel any better I can easily get Firefox to use up to 800 to 900 MB of memory in 5 minutes.

 

[tzdk]

Versions up to 2.xx had major problems with this site http://www.eyeball-series.org/ the more you browsed the more those huge pics ate ram. Cache got bigger and bigger. Adblock Plus or was it only Adblock just made it worse. Sometimes it only take 1 page to mess things up, like it only take 1 crappy add-ons no matter there are 50 installed. So fragile sometimes Can still see people showing task manager pics with 1gb+ usage (private working set) Not normal of course but not necessarily user-bug either. Too clickhappy at add-on or userscript site perhaps but we are encouraged to...