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DaggyStyle
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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject: firefox-3.5.3-r1 makes my computer slow[closed] |
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since I've emerged firefox-3.5.3-r1, my computer reacts slowly, I've been able to run before boinc, amarok, firefox and programing with kdevelop-4 but now I can barely use boinc, kdevelop-4 and firefox.
ksysguard shows firefox getting most cpu percentage.
anyone noticed that?
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| audiodef wrote: | | That's Firefox for you. It seems to be a crap-shoot whether the next version will be better or worse. When I roll the "worse" dice, I mask that version and downgrade, and let the next upgrade be the version after the "worse" one. |
its the same version, e.g. a r1, the only difference is that patches the devs have added.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| Firefox is bloated garbage, dump it and use Chromium, it flies! |
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Mike Hunt
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I can't say I'm noticing any difference in 3.5.3-r1
Maybe a little bit of a clean up in ~/.mozila might help - not sure. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| hulmeman wrote: | | Firefox is bloated garbage, dump it and use Chromium, it flies! |
Chromium is a semi open source project that sends information about our surfing habits back to google, no thanks.
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| Mike Hunt wrote: | I can't say I'm noticing any difference in 3.5.3-r1
Maybe a little bit of a clean up in ~/.mozila might help - not sure. |
what can I clean that won't delete important info?
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Mike Hunt
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| DaggyStyle wrote: | | what can I clean that won't delete important info? |
This topic seems to help with startup times, which may or may not affect overall performance, - not sure, just an idea.
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3.5.4 works great, closed.
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Joseph K.
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Sorry to reopen this old thread, but the awful performance of Firefox has been bugging me so much lately that I tried Chromium (8.0) for the first time and suddenly it felt like my laptop wasn't a piece of garbage any more.
Is it still the case that Firefox performance fluctuates dramatically between versions? I'm running 3.6.13 at time of writing (heh, so maybe it's just bad luck) and the fundamental problem is that Firefox quite frequently just pauses: the window will stop updating for a second or two but all input will be buffered, so when it unpauses, all the keystrokes and mouse input happens. Oh and it abuses the CPU during the pause of course, so it affects overall system performance, not just the browser.
Now, maybe my issue with Firefox is different because I'm experiencing actual pauses, in addition to overall slowness. Out of curiosity, I tried Google's V8 benchmark suite, and apart from being embarrassingly slow, it issued several "unresponsive script" warnings whilst running. Thing is that Firefox would pause when I was doing trivial things like scrolling or typing, though I guess I don't know the ins and outs of javascript.
Anyway, I'm deserting the Firefox camp for now, but I look forward to testing out 4.0. |
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