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Why is Firefox/Java/Flash SO SLOW?!?!

JMapleton

JMapleton

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Is anyone else having this problem? For the past 6 months, both my home computer and my work computer have gotten progressively slower and Java and Flash constantly crash.

Even as I'm typing this message, the words are lagging. And it's not my computer, what I have should be plenty fast., especially when it's overclocked to 4.5Ghz.
 
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Have you checked Firefox's memory use? I've noticed slowdowns and issues with choppy Flash video playback as I left Firefox open for too long. When I look at the browser in the task manager, I notice that its CPU usage fluctuates between maybe 5% and 25%, which is what's causing the choppy behavior.

Oddly enough, the issues seem to have subsided as of late, but I'm not sure if it was 14.0.1 or not.
 
Aikouka said:
Have you checked Firefox's memory use? I've noticed slowdowns and issues with choppy Flash video playback as I left Firefox open for too long. When I look at the browser in the task manager, I notice that its CPU usage fluctuates between maybe 5% and 25%, which is what's causing the choppy behavior.

Oddly enough, the issues seem to have subsided as of late, but I'm not sure if it was 14.0.1 or not.
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It seems some people can fix it by changing the max amount of open connections from 256 to 48 but I like to run everything stock.

I am a webmaster and I like to see how the average user uses a browser.

In 2000 I switched to IE. In 2005 I switched to Firefox. I think the time has come to make the switch again....to Chrome as much as I may not like it.
 
JMapleton said:
I think they need to rewrite the browser from scratch. This version is going to be their downfall.
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Or you could figure out the issue, and correct it. Few companies outside of game devs test their software, have issues, and say "Fsck it, close enough". It worked for them, and it works for me. Slowness isn't expected behavior, and there's a reason for it happening.
 
lxskllr said:
Or you could figure out the issue, and correct it. Few companies outside of game devs test their software, have issues, and say "Fsck it, close enough". It worked for them, and it works for me. Slowness isn't expected behavior, and there's a reason for it happening.
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Firefox is losing about half a percentage in market share every month, it's a dying software. It's dying almost as quickly as IE did.

The reason it's happening is because it's resource hog.

I've reloaded Windows 7 from scratch and reinstalled FireFox and it still had the same problems. I have no add ons. And it does this on 3 different computers.

Firefox is done. I'm typing this from Google Chrome and it's blazing fast.
 
I've reloaded Windows 7 from scratch and reinstalled FireFox and it still had the same problems. I have no add ons. And it does this on 3 different computers.
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The problem, as far as I can tell, is that many websites seem to "integrate" all these stupid new elements to merge them with social apps lately (e.g. like/+1/become fan 9801/stream/etc.), and advertisements have been becoming more and more intrusive (both in terms of speed reduction/waiting for them to load and bandwidth/memory usage). Most sources I read say that Firefox has been getting better at managing memory/resources over the years (if you compare never versions to older). I always disable flash unless I need it, and disable images sometimes too (got an extension called ImageBlock 2.1), and sometimes even try to use the m.website and iphone.website links instead of www. when possible. Maybe disabling java and/or an adblocker would help as well. The internet needs to go back to straight html and f*** everything else I say... except videos on youtube. 😀
 
ninaholic37 said:
The problem, as far as I can tell, is that many websites seem to "integrate" all these stupid new elements to merge them with social apps lately (e.g. like/+1/become fan 9801/stream/etc.), and advertisements have been becoming more and more intrusive (both in terms of speed reduction/waiting for them to load and bandwidth/memory usage). Most sources I read say that Firefox has been getting better at managing memory/resources over the years (if you compare never versions to older). I always disable flash unless I need it, and disable images sometimes too (got an extension called ImageBlock 2.1), and sometimes even try to use the m.website and iphone.website links instead of www. when possible. Maybe disabling java and/or an adblocker would help as well. The internet needs to go back to straight html and f*** everything else I say... except videos on youtube. 😀
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The Ghostery addon can get rid of a lot of the crap. They have a somewhat questionable business model, where blocking crap gives them better tools to sell companies for creating more crap. They're kind of playing both sides. If that's an issue, adding the Fanboy lists to Adblock+ will largely take care of it. I use both, but I probably don't have to.
 
ninaholic37 said:
The problem, as far as I can tell, is that many websites seem to "integrate" all these stupid new elements to merge them with social apps lately (e.g. like/+1/become fan 9801/stream/etc.), and advertisements have been becoming more and more intrusive (both in terms of speed reduction/waiting for them to load and bandwidth/memory usage). Most sources I read say that Firefox has been getting better at managing memory/resources over the years (if you compare never versions to older). I always disable flash unless I need it, and disable images sometimes too (got an extension called ImageBlock 2.1), and sometimes even try to use the m.website and iphone.website links instead of www. when possible. Maybe disabling java and/or an adblocker would help as well. The internet needs to go back to straight html and f*** everything else I say... except videos on youtube. 😀
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I don't think it's reasonable to do all that. A person should be a able to surf the internet, which is designed for the general computing population, without lag on a modern/late model computer.

We're not talking about playing Crysis with all settings on high.
 
my Firefox runs like absolute LIGHTNING...it's like real surfing on a real wave...merely think it and I'm there....tried chrome, found that Firefox works much better than Chrome for me!

Environment:
Windows 7 Pro, fully updated, with Kaspersky Internet Security set to pretty much max/deepest screening for every parameter (max hurestics for everything, etc)
Firefox 14.0.1
Firefox add-ons:
Adblock Plus
Barlesque
DivX Plus Web Player
FlashGot
IE Tab 2
MD5 Reborned Hasher
Screengrab (fix version)
Vacuum Places Improved
Theme=Default
Plugins:
Adobe Acrobat
DivX Plus Web Player
DivX VOD Helper
Google Earth
IE Tab
Java Deployment Toolkit
PDF_Xchange Viewer
Quicktime
Shockwave Flash
Shockwave for Director
Silverlight
Windows Live Pjhoto Gallery





 
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