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Anyone know why Firefox always slows down and even locks up for a few seconds whenever downloads are done? I don't have that issue with Chrome or other browsers. Is it because of the pop-up notification, poor code, bad extension, or what? Is that being worked on? It's my only real complaint right now. Surely I'm not the only one experiencing this, right? I'm using 9.0 Beta

Go in about:config and put browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to false.

Anyone know why Firefox always slows down and even locks up for a few seconds whenever downloads are done? I don't have that issue with Chrome or other browsers. Is it because of the pop-up notification, poor code, bad extension, or what? Is that being worked on? It's my only real complaint right now. Surely I'm not the only one experiencing this, right? I'm using 9.0 Beta

Go in about:config and put browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone to false.

Quite frankly, that is correct solution, but also the worst. I would strongly advise against doing that, especially considering you never know when you accidentally download a malicious file and you are going to want your antivirus to clean it up before it does any harm. Better solution would be to move to a lightweight antivirus like MSE that will keep your computer lag-free without having to compromise security.

Or maybe you should learn some technical knowledge about software and realize that stability entails a lot more than simply not crashing. And even then the current Aurora channel contained at least two crasher bugs when it was first released. Just because you don't run into them since you don't do extensive testing doesn't mean no one else does.

There's also no such thing as Aurora "having its own patching process". If you really knew how Bugzilla works you'd also know that all incoming patches are always merged with mozilla-central first, but tracking flags can be nominated for each bug to be merged to other release channels as well without waiting for the patched mozilla-central code to trickle out to them days or weeks later.

Again, if your intention is to help, then please make sure you have accurate information before you do. If your intention here is simply to put on a show of being more intelligent and informed than you actually are... then carry on, I guess.

I have posted that I have been testing the Nightly builds daily for two years. Very intensely. If you would take one second of your time to look you will find that you have no idea of what you are talking about. The Nightly Builds, The Aurora Builds and The Beta Builds indeed do have their own patching process. Each build does NOT get the same fixes as they all are in different stages of development.

builds.png

Above is a screenshot of today's builds. You can see from the image that what I am posting is indeed factual.

LOL.

Anyway, there's been some activity in the tab reorder/detach animations bug. According to the dev that's working on the bug, it's 90% done. :D

Looks like the debate about dragging tabs to the bookmarks sidebar has started again, though. I don't even use that feature, but I don't understand why you would want to only allow it with an un-discoverable modifier (i.e. Ctrl- or Alt-drag).

Edit: Jumping over to Aurora for the night until I feel like going back into testing mode tomorrow. Wow, just checked and Nightly has crashed 4 times in the last 24 hours on a friend's PC that I'm using - not to mention the new memory leak. It finally feels like an Alpha to me for the first time in ages. :p

So, news about memory leaks, also happen on Neowin.net ;) https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=703125

Looks like my previous link and this bug are about same problem... I hope.

I've return to Nightly build from 14-11-2011, no problems at all, no leaks etc, so waiting for fixing this bugs...

Some extra info https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702942

No is it boring here 6574:0ab8:2b76:0000:0000:8b2c:4373:1337 ?? I guess it is too much to ask that user post to the topic.

it kinda is in 6574:0ab8:2b76:0000:0000:8b2c:4373:1337 but i manage.

is it boring in Youngstown,OH or something? LOL but LOL.

Best response ever! LOL! These two are carrying on like an old married couple. Nobody cares. Focus on talking about Firefox improvements. Glad to hear they are working on fixing the tab animation bug.

i have the same issue and dont use noscript

flash works at any site instead of youtube

going safe mode dont work (with all addons disable etc etc)

creating a new profile youtube works but can't get around what is causing the issue (i dont have adblock)

ps: this on firefox 64 bits

i have the same issue and dont use noscript

flash works at any site instead of youtube

going safe mode dont work (with all addons disable etc etc)

creating a new profile youtube works but can't get around what is causing the issue (i dont have adblock)

ps: this on firefox 64 bits

gfx.3d_video.enabled

Is the above enabled and set to true in About:config?

i have the same issue and dont use noscript

flash works at any site instead of youtube

going safe mode dont work (with all addons disable etc etc)

creating a new profile youtube works but can't get around what is causing the issue (i dont have adblock)

ps: this on firefox 64 bits

Clear your flash cache, worked for me.

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