Firefox
 

Any reason why FF takes so long to load? Is it due to the addons and Ghostery? Heard it said that its a large file but 90 seconds is ridiculous. Thoughts anyone. :rolleyes:

Takes less than five seconds for me on Windows or Linux, though all those machines have SSDs. The only addon they have is NoScript, so it could well be that you have an addon that's taking a long time to start up.

I suggest having a look here and here. With selective disabling and restarts you will soon work out what is the problem. I have had similar happen before and it usually boiled down to a single plug-in or add-on.

Of all the browsers I use (I have six), Firefox always takes the longest to load and the longest to shut down. Use another browser.

Normally between 5-10 seconds for me - thats on a quad core though with 3GB RAM.

Thanks DC3, got it down to 20 seconds now. :ok:

Takes about 5-10s to load, using XP with a single core.

Takes twice that to shut down. Chrome (SRWare Iron, actually) shuts a little faster. Loading is about the same.

With Process Explorer open I started FF and had it sitting on about:blank

After it's first grab at a huge chunk of memory it settled down and just periodically kept grabbing small chunks of memory with no activity.

Something could be wrong with the new FF, I'm using version 21.0, and miss the old speedy version 3.16.

I'm using 3.6 something which I've recently upgraded to and find there seems to be a conspiracy.

Gmail and YouTube (among others) both say it's too old and they're going to stop supporting it soon.

Seems to me the newer versions might be more compliant to spying activities, otherwie, why would they care?

My thoughts exactly. Why else would anyone want to have so many extensions and addons. Never used to happen in the days of 3.6

I have FF 25.0.1 on a W7 laptop

I have adblock,ghostery,noscript and it takes 6 seconds to load and be ready for use.

Oh, dear. FF too old to have Ghostery. Update? Some of my add-ons won't work. Kaspersky being the main issue. Safe Money etc. I think all loaded and paid for by Barclays Bank in the UK.

Every way I turn there seems to be a brick wall. How come you lot don't have these problems?:uhoh:

W(hy)TF do "they" have to keep changing things !!!

Welcome to Open Source software development. :E

Endless supply of free coders but minimal supply of decent project managers.

I don't think FF 3.6 supported HTML5.

HTML5 introduces many things like a graphics engine, video rendering, and other features which FF have to adopt in order to stay alive in the browser wars.

FF 3.6 ran very well on my old-ish netbook, I've just updated to FF 25 from the slow memory intensive FF 21 and it appears to be a slight improvement.

I just wish FF would use slim line tabs or some other option that would not encroach on my screen's limited real estate.

I use Firefox almost exclusively.

I only resort to IE when FF malfunctions (like now).

Earlier today, FF (27.0.1) 'froze' (my whole computer froze and I had to press the on/off switch and reboot).

When I opened FF I found that it wouldn't open my Hotmail emails (Hotmail will load but won't open the messages - this works just fine in IE). I also found that 'Restore previous session' was 'empty'.

I clicked on 'Help' and when I opened the 'About Firefox' tab it downloaded FF 28.0 (requiring FF to be restarted) but it still wouldn't open email messages.

Now it is running PPRuNe in reduced graphics 'text only' format without the usual coloured borders - this also applies to another bulletin-board site that I use.
It sees to be a 'memory' problem.

I have read that I can reset FF to its default state - but I will lose my extensions and add-ons (and will, presumably, lose my AdBlock Plus settings and ReminderFox entries - which are very important ones for me that I don't even want to contemplate losing).

Am I doomed and will have to bite the bullet and reset FF to default and lose the data - or will I have to continue using IE in order to access my Hotmail messages and get PPRuNe in full colour format?

I gave up with Firefox six months ago after several years of being a satisfied user. Too many add-on problems and slow-loading pages after the endless version updates.
I've been with Opera since and found it far superior.

My FFox doesn't take long to open, at least a little quicker then I.E., but as of yesterday it has changed - for no apparent reason.

I no longer have the arrow on the right hand end to show my 'bookmarks', and the 'Firefox' logo at the top left has changed to the small curled fox and a list of headings . viz File/Edit/View/History/Bookmarks/Tools/Help, so nothing's missing, just re-arranged. WTF ?

Never touched it M'Lud.

Currently 27.0.1 here. It's certainly slowed down after recent 'upgrades'. The first load after cold boot seems especially slow. Subsequent switches to the program from other applications are almost instantaneous.

I'm becoming somewhat disenchanted.

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Have you tried running the latest firefox in safe mode (not windows safe mode, firefox safe mode ... google it !)...

It may be your plugins/add-ons/whatever they call them causing you grief.