Firefox Delay

[Anurag]

Hey!!!
I'm using Mozilla Firefox 3 b5
Its the best, but the problem is that it opens quite late
after I press its button.

Someone told me to disable the addons that I have been using
But I can't disable them, as everybody knows they are very useful.

Is there any other solution ??

Thnkx.

[minidv2dvd]

no it's just slow loading, the more add-on extensions the worse it gets. once it's up the speed is good. you could try i.e.8, it's improved and faster loading.

[edit] you might want to update to the latest ff 3.0.10

[Ai Haibara]

3.0.10 would be a downgrade, technically - "3 b5" is most likely the latest beta for FF v3.5, though I didn't think beta 5 was out, yet.

Anurag - try creating an empty, additional user profile in Firefox (can't remember how to do that within FF, at the moment, but I believe you can add the -ProfileManager switch to the Firefox startup command (in a desktop shortcut, if you have one), to open the Profile Manager at startup), and open Firefox using that profile, to see if it loads any faster than your current profile, without extensions and any other things bogging the profile down.

[Anurag]

Thnkx..
but I didn't get the solution.
I always empty the cache after surfing the Internet.

Running the firefox (using profile manager) without extensions, is OK.
But I'm still confused, that why it gets delayed.

Its right that once it is up to its maximum, It is the best browser.
But what about delay in initiating the firefox...

[Ai Haibara]

It wasn't meant to be a solution.

The test I mentioned was meant for making sure whether or not it was the extensions slowing FF, or anything else (even profile corruption). If it's the extensions, and you're not willing to go without any of them, there's not much else you can do.

[lordsmurf]

Buy a faster computer.

[pepegot1]

On initial start up, Firefox takes about 20 to 25 seconds to load on my machine. If you close and reload it, it loads in a few seconds. That's the way it is, especially if you use the much desired addons. Perhaps Firefox 3.5, with Tracemonkey, will be faster. I tried many suggested changes using about:config to no avail. It is still a great browser-this annoyance notwithstanding. Of course, an Intel i7 chip would help immensely.

[AlanHK]

Someone told me to disable the addons that I have

You don't have to disable/enable all addons at once.

There are 7,000 Firefox addons, you choose which ones you want and use them. Uninstall the ones you don't.
Or uninstall them all and see which ones you miss, put them back.

It only takes a moment (and a restart of FF) to reinstall it later if you need it.

For the ones you use, have a look at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
and see if there are alternatives, see the comments by other users.


And see 20 useless Firefox add-ons.

[edDV]

It would help if you compare performance on your computer and your connection with IE7 or IE8. There are many possible issues but relative performance to IE helps with diagnosis.

[gll99]

Firefox loaded slowly for me too (maybe 15 - 20 seconds) but when visiting the ms window7 RC download site I got a prompt to install an add-on called Java Quickstarter 1.0 for Firefox 3x and now it takes about 6 or 7 seconds for the Videohelp start page (my home) to fully show using firefox 3.0.7.

Coincidence? Maybe but I haven't changed anything else.

[GKar]

Try setting the browser for Win2000 compatibility. Right click on icon, compatibility tab.

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_parentId=15825

[disturbed1]

Portions of Internet Explorer are loaded in memory when Windows starts. It's cold execution time should be near zero. There are only a few files which need to be read from the hard drive when launching. Internet Explorer uses the native Windows gui toolkit and libraries which are also already loaded.

Firefox does not reside in RAM from a cold start. It (Firefox) is also using an extremely heavy sqlite database for it's bookmarks and other things. It's also based on a non Windows native tool kit (GTK). When you launch Firefox, you are actually launching 2 additional programs, and waiting on those to load and run before executing Firefox. Once GTK is initialized then sqlite, Firefox will then load.

Operating systems do RAM caching to improve restarts of programs. Once a program is launched, and then closed, portions will remain in the cache buffers for a short period of time.

If you want Firefox to load faster on cold starts, increase the speed of your hard drives. Hard drives are still the number one bottleneck for modern PCs.

[Anurag]

Thnkx to all!!!!
Wonderful...

[freebird73717]

Does your computer really have only 512mb of ram? If so then you should consider adding more. Vista and 512mb ram make for a sloooowww machine.

[Anurag]

well, my dear "freebird73717"
I have been using "Vista and 512MB"
for over 2 years..
as well as its P4 with 1.89GHz processor.
Its working fine!!!!
These are all rumors...

[freebird73717]

There is no rumor that vista runs slowly with that small amount of ram. Ask any member here or any other forum.
While it can and does work with 512mb, it does slow down the system performance and causes the OS to have to rely heavily on the paging file as virtual memory.

I recently re-installed vista for a customer that had purchased a second hand pc from someone. That pc also had 512mb ram and ran painfully slow with a similar cpu to yours. The first thing I recommended was that he install more ram but he didn't want to spend any more money than he had already. No skin off my back. I reinstalled vista and happily took his money.

Just do a control+alt+delete and look at your available memory. You will have hardly any.

Yes it will work but I sure wouldn't want to use it.

But if you are happy with it then that's all that matters. If you want a performance boost then you would benefit from an increase in ram.

[lordsmurf]

"My mind's made up, don't confuse me with the facts."

[Anurag]

Thnkx "freebird"
ur right
I always check task manager->performance
and due to 512 MB RAM, the usage is always above 350MB..
due to which I frequently get a "bluescreen" error
but that's OK. now I'm used to it.
So now I'm buying a Laptop.
Coz changing the configuration of my PC will take a lot from my pocket.
so its better to buy a new laptop.

Thnkx.

[AlanHK]

Coz changing the configuration of my PC will take a lot from my pocket.

I've upgraded both my PC and laptop with some cheap RAM (online auction, used).
Very worthwhile and cost effective.

[INFRATOM]

Most of the softwares that are slow to start they look for updates so first they send out your configuration that is your profile then it checks for each add-on. Try turning auto update off for firefox and every now and then click on check for update manually. I've also seen windows defender slows everything.

[Anurag]

thnkx... INFRATOM