wtf...installed firefox 1.5

[Slimline]

Is anyone else having this problem? It is the browser, as I opened up IE and it is quick. wtf? Anyone know any possible issues? Help! I miss FF!

 

[Malak]

Are you talking about how long it takes to load the program? Because nothing loads quicker than IE

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: Malak
Are you talking about how long it takes to load the program? Because nothing loads quicker than IE

Because nothing is less protected than IE

 

[Slimline]

No I am talking about how long it takes to load pages....

 

[Random Variable]

If you click on a web address in your drop-down history, Firefox 1.5 will often just refresh the page you're currently viewing or will sometimes send you to the wrong web page.

 

[Frodolives]

1.5 installation was flawed for me. I'm back to 1.0.7 for now.

 

[Slimline]

Originally posted by: Frodolives
1.5 installation was flawed for me. I'm back to 1.0.7 for now.

thats what i am thinkin...back to 1.07

 

[cjsketchy]

It disables pipelining by default... made it much slower for me too, but I followed these steps I found on another forum, and it's speeding along faster than ever now:

Open Firefox (Fx), type about:config into the address bar, and hit return.
Locate the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Double click each entry, and alter them as below:
Set network.http.pipelining to true. As set initially, Fx loads only one page at a time.

Enabling pipelining causes it to load several at once, which makes switching from page to page
much faster.
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true.
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30. This causes Fx to request 30 pages at once. (I
changed mine to 100 and it works perfectly, but I've got lots of memory. I wouldn't go over
thirty unless you have at least 512 MB of RAM.)
Right-click anywhere on the page and select New - Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay
and set its value to 0. This changes the amount of time that Fx waits to act on information.
Your pages should load noticeably faster. Enjoy!

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Why in the world would they disable pipelining in the first place?

 

[thesurge]

Get the fasterfox extension. does everything for you.

 

[Nothinman]

Seems fine to me, faster than previous releases. It also seems like they 'fixed' the back button, it's nearly instantaneous now.

 

[Schadenfroh]

There is a mod to have a portion of FF sit in memory so it will load instantly. Dont recall what it was called.

 

[namelessentity]

FireFox Preloader.

Ewps, I forgot it adds all that crap to URLs if you just paste them, sorry

 

[Xylitol]

Originally posted by: namelessentity
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/">FireFox Preloader.</a>

You suck at linking

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: namelessentity
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/">FireFox Preloader.</a>

and it's STILL wrong

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader

 

[DasFox]

FF 1.0.5 running fine here, actually one of the better 1.0x versions. 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 had horrible memory leaks that eventually locked them up along with other apps running. But 1.0.5 runs at around 75MB which I think is quite extreme for a browser to be using that much.

 

[Slimline]

ok thanks for the replies guys. One other problem. There is no fusuking scroll bar on the right hand side??? what gives?? Scrolling to the bottom of a large page is a real PITA now. I cantfind how to get it back....

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Slimline
ok thanks for the replies guys. One other problem. There is no fusuking scroll bar on the right hand side??? what gives?? Scrolling to the bottom of a large page is a real PITA now. I cantfind how to get it back....

Running 1.5 on several machines (2K and XP Pro) and have the scroll bar on all of them. Maybe do an un/reinstall making sure to blow away the working directory and firefox profile directory (\Documents and Settings\'YourLogin'\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox) completely?

 

[ribbon13]

http://pryan.org/firefox/stipe/blog/
+
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1269

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Slimline
ok thanks for the replies guys. One other problem. There is no fusuking scroll bar on the right hand side??? what gives?? Scrolling to the bottom of a large page is a real PITA now. I cantfind how to get it back....

This has come up a number of times and the answer is invariably that the skin you're using is not ready for 1.5. Go back to the default and see what happens. Not quite as drastic as deleting a profile.

 

[firerock]

Originally posted by: Slimline
ok thanks for the replies guys. One other problem. There is no fusuking scroll bar on the right hand side??? what gives?? Scrolling to the bottom of a large page is a real PITA now. I cantfind how to get it back....

I had this problem too....then I searched on their forum and found out that you need to update the theme extension that you installed. Only the older/unupdated theme will create this problem. You can try this to see if I am right: try to switch your them to the original theme that came with your FF, you will see the scroll bar correctly.

 

[firerock]

Well, I guess I was a bit later in response....

BTW, my own problem is that when I minimize he window, FF still takes as much ram as when the window is opened. It used to shrink down the ram usage when I minimize the window, but it doesn't do that anymore..

 

[Slimline]

Hey hey! updated the theme and voila! Thanks guys, IE was driving me nuts. Sorry firerock, no idea about that...I have enough ram im not worried about it.

 

[firerock]

In case you are still visiting those IE stubborn site, check out this IE Tab extension. It will load that particular site in IE in your FF tab. BTW, I don't have RAM usage problem either; I just wanted to know why is this happening. It is extra useful when I'm editing photos that uses lots of ram and I still need to browse net at the same time. Otherwise, no biggie, unused ram means nothing to me. I bought them, so get them to work!