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| Post #1 Jul 2 2009, 20:47 | |
Neowinian Senior  Group: Registered Posts: 2,016 Joined: 25-June 05 Member No.: 115,858 
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I love firefox.. my favorite browser.. and it's always been some what speedy to me.. but the 3.5 release just seems very slow and some what laggy(slow loading menu's, start up/exit). Has anyone else noticed things like this? Also I'm not running any Extensions.
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| Post #2 Jul 2 2009, 20:48 | |
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Neowinian Senior Group: Registered Posts: 2,479 Joined: 20-January 05 From: Calgary, AB Member No.: 91,851
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Fine for me.
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| Post #3 Jul 2 2009, 20:49 | |
Neowinian Group: Registered Posts: 2,613 Joined: 5-October 02 From: Canada Member No.: 18,006
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I've had this happen to me. It seems after a while, something happens, and the browser doesn't respond as quickly. I can close the browser and then continue on, and it'll be fine, but it's annoying when I've got windows open
Don't remember this happening before with 3.1 |
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| Post #4 Jul 2 2009, 20:52 | |
A gamer, a music rythym game addict, and a trainee audiophile.  Group: Registered Posts: 4,845 Joined: 15-January 06 From: Plymouth, England Member No.: 151,617
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I've had no problems at all. It's sped up a little bit for me, but it was already bloody fast to begin with. On my computer and laptop, it's faster than Safari 4, and Google Chrome 3. Yes, I know the benchmarks say that Chrome is faster than Firefox, but not here!
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| Post #5 Jul 2 2009, 20:52 | |
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Neowinian Senior Group: Registered Posts: 2,016 Joined: 25-June 05 Member No.: 115,858
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Quote - (Deathray @ Jul 2 2009, 16:49)  I've had this happen to me. It seems after a while, something happens, and the browser doesn't respond as quickly. I can close the browser and then continue on, and it'll be fine, but it's annoying when I've got windows open Don't remember this happening before with 3.1 I was on 3.0.11 and it was fine, never had an issue. |
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| Post #6 Jul 2 2009, 20:54 | |
Neowinian Senior Group: Registered Posts: 2,552 Joined: 9-December 05 Member No.: 144,414
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Since the use of RC3 (which is the same as final release), I only noticed Firefox speed improved by noticeable difference.
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| Post #7 Jul 2 2009, 20:55 | |
Neowinian ULTRAKILL  Group: Registered Posts: 10,769 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Vilnius, Lithuania | Torono,On Member No.: 17,821
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It loads a bit slowly for me..up to 20 secs, but works fine after.
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| Post #8 Jul 2 2009, 20:57 | |
Resident Elite  Group: Registered Posts: 1,011 Joined: 3-February 05 From: UK Member No.: 94,504
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I've been a happy Firefox user for years, and I've experienced this once before. For no apparent reason it just became slow and laggy. I had to create a new profile, which solved this issue for me.
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| Post #9 Jul 2 2009, 20:59 | |
Neowinian  Group: Registered Posts: 492 Joined: 23-January 02 From: England Member No.: 8,993
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On Windows partition - everything seems slow compared to Chrome, noticeably slower!
On Linux partition - Firefox 3.5 seems fine so far, plus it's not using Tracemonkey on my distro yet (x64) so it will only get faster. |
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| Post #10 Jul 2 2009, 21:00 | |
Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 416 Joined: 23-November 07 Member No.: 241,972
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Firefox has suddenly hung for a second or two. However, I don't know what's causing it, and it's only happened twice so far, the first when it was still labeled RC3.
At all other times though, it's been much faster than Firefox 3, so I'm pretty sure whatever the next few patches bring will fix the minor hang issue. But in the meantime, I'm considering just starting over with a, "Clean" install anyway. |
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| Post #11 Jul 2 2009, 21:02 | |
Neowinian UNSTOPPABLE  Group: Registered Posts: 6,579 Joined: 17-December 08 Member No.: 274,360
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I use to be a huge fan of Firefox but I'm just not liking 3.5. It seems slow for me as well.
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| Post #12 Jul 2 2009, 21:04 | |
Neowinian Wise One  Group: +Subscriber Posts: 4,064 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 61,965
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I've been absolutely fine since beta 4 I think it was. Quick as can be.
What kind of computer are you running now? |
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| Post #13 Jul 2 2009, 21:07 | |
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Neowinian Senior Group: Registered Posts: 2,016 Joined: 25-June 05 Member No.: 115,858
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Quote - (dead.cell @ Jul 2 2009, 17:04) I've been absolutely fine since beta 4 I think it was. Quick as can be. What kind of computer are you running now? lenovo laptop, intel dualcore t3400, 2gb of ram |
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| Post #14 Jul 2 2009, 21:14 | |
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Neowinian³ Group: Registered Posts: 339 Joined: 17-November 06 Member No.: 187,627
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3.5 is slow here too. Not a lot slower but it is noticeable.
I certainly don't know why they're claiming all these performance improvements and IE8 seems faster than Firefox at this stage. |
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| Post #15 Jul 2 2009, 21:20 | |
Curmudgeon Group: Registered Posts: 373 Joined: 25-May 09 From: .us Member No.: 294,334
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Firefox can get laggy when the Places database (all your history, bookmarks, etc.) get too big. Mine's close to 100MB (this isn't the cache--this is history, bookmarks, etc.!); there's a world of difference when I start Firefox with a fresh profile (but with the same settings, extensions, etc.) than with my existing profile. Making sure that the places db is defragged helps a bit (b/c it's accessed and written to every time you hit a URL of any sort).
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