Problem with sudden Firefox slowing

[Chris Thomas]

I was reading these posts and I think you misunderstood these addons (maybe I am wrong)

Actually, the above two extensions don't force Firefox to reduce RAM

The First extension 'RAMback' just clears the internal Firefox caches

The second one 'savememory' just pauses the unused tabs - It is good if you open 20 or 30 tabs

I am not forcing Firefox to not use my RAM in anyway

I play a lot of Browser MMORPG games at one time so the savememory addon comes in handy because I open multiple game tabs at once and even 4GB can't make my browser stable sometimes.

And this is where OPP messes up my Firefox, atleast it did in my Minefield

You can also use TooManyTabs addon

You can open a 100 tabs easily with this addon if you want to

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9429/

[HPY]

Alan Baxter, davidR - everyone!


Sorry to bore you folks with this Firefox mallarkey. The thread has become out of my depth as I am not familiar with a lot of the applications that you guys are discussing except that Flash needs to do some homework according to Firefox Specialist Alan Baxter.

My Firefox started slowing again and the laptop has started whining again with its 4GB RAM - but it is coping. It always starts whenver visiting The daily telegraph pages http://tinyurl.com/2cgj999  - whether it is the Disqus forum I do not know.

This time however Firefox is managing the problem - still struggles along and does the job with annoying "churning" slowness. I wish it would crash as that would give us an idea of what it is struggling with.

Alan is probably right that it is Flash related.

I have no intention of abandoning Firefox or NS.

I am sure I will be back!

[Chris Thomas]

This is the release notes of Firefox 3.6.6

Known Issues

This list covers some of the known problems with Firefox 3.6, which will be resolved in future releases:

All Systems

        If FIPS mode is enabled and certain files have been removed from the system, the browser may crash on startup (see bug 522041)

Microsoft Windows

        Content over certain Flash videos may not disappear when the video plays (see bug 571313)
        Older Flash videos on Download.com may fail to play. CNet has been notified of the issue (see bug 569104)
        Some slower machines may see degraded mouse responsiveness when viewing certain Flash videos (see bug 561818)

Linux and Unix

        Firefox may have difficulty playing system sounds in some distributions of Linux (see bug 536996)
        Zooming out on some sites may result in grey or black lines appearing (see bug 468496)

@ HPY

I guess you can post a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

OR

check out with Mozilla forum

http://forums.mozillazine.org/

[DavidR]

@ HPY
I have just visited that page link that you gave using firefox 3.6.6 with NoScript and RequestPolicy add-ons, on opening I immediately temp allowed blogs.telegraph.co.uk and the page loaded relatively quickly for me even being on dial-up. I then temp allowed the cross site scripting to disqus.com and the page reloaded, again relatively quickly. There doesn't appear to be any additional content actually coming from disqus.com though.

For me no problems on that page, so I'm not sure what might be on it that is causing you problems.

[HPY]

DavidR
Alan Baxter
Chris Thomas

As you probably know NoScript was updated a couple of days ago. This morning I opened Firefox Add-ons and ran the update for all. NS first stalled on the update, on second try it succeeded with a small "adaptation" update, presumably particular to my system.

Since then I have been working with two windows - each with about 8 tabs, some containing video. Works as new!

I guess I'll have to keep those Addons manulayy udated as a weekly routine.

Thanks for all pointers!

[DavidR]

You're welcome.

First I don't allow avast to auto update the program or add-ons as I'm on dial-up. However, there are times when even when I use manual add-on update NS doesn't report an update in that process, I think this is more down to the firefox update process. But if I visit the NS home page I find that there is an update, but I don't get paranoid about it, if I haven't seen an update for some while for NS I visit the site.