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Firefox 2.0 acting really slow
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:21 pm
by Ambush Commander
Ever since I've updated to Firefox 2.0, I've been irked by a severe performance regression that, it seems, no one else is seeing. It occurs when I have a large amount of tabs open (five-ish or more). Switching between tabs or closing them takes an agonizing half second or more, something that (if my memory serves me correctly) was near instantaneous in Firefox 1.5. This is completely unacceptable.
The extensions I have installed are thus:
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Adblock Plus
ColorZilla
CookieSafe
DOM Inspector
Download Statusbar
DownThemAll!
Greasemonkey
httpOnly
IE View
NoScript
ReloadEvery
Sage
Stylish
Talkback
Tamper Data
View Cookies
Web Developer
Anyone know what's going on? For now, I think I might downgrade to 1.5 until I can find the offending extension.
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:26 pm
by Weirdan
about:myconfig wrote:
- del.icio.us Complete 1.3
- DOM Inspector 1.8.1
- FireBug 0.4.1
- FlashGot 0.5.96.060910
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.10
- Greasemonkey 0.6.6.20061017.0
- Mozex 1.9.3
- MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1
- PDF Download 0.7.6
- Talkback 2.0
- XHTML Ruby Support 1.4.2006100801
- XPather 1.0.1
FF acts slow but only:
- if a tab with gmail is open
- and when switching to that tab
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:29 pm
by Ambush Commander
Hmm... that doesn't help much, since Greasemonkey are the only two extensions we both have installed. But posting extension lists could be very helpful! Can anyone else help?
I would presume GMail would be slow because it uses a lot of JavaScript and Firefox 2.0 updated its JavaScript engine.
I just reinstalled Firefox to no avail. I'm going to try a clean account next.
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:49 pm
by Ambush Commander
CookieSafe was the culprit. But that's functionality that I really need... ah well, off to find another one. Actually, this is the second extension I've gone through for easy cookie preference changes, the first one was cookie button which totally mutilated the context menus in Firefox 2.0.
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:52 pm
by Burrito
* ColorZilla 0.8.3.1
* DOM Inspector 1.8.1
* DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7
* Greasemonkey 0.6.6.20061017.0
* IE Tab 1.1.1.4
* MeasureIt 0.3.6
* MR Tech Local Install 5.3.1.1
nothing running slowly for me.
thx weirdan for the assist
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:36 pm
by feyd
No slow downs here:
- Adblock 0.5.3.043
- Adblock Filterset.G 0.3.0.4
- Colorzilla 0.8.3.1
- CustomizeGoogle 0.54
- DOM Inspector 1.8.1
- Fangs 1.0.3
- Greasemonkey 0.6.6.20061017.0
- Linkification 1.3.0
- MeasureIt 0.3.6
- Paste Quote 0.3.2
- ShowIP 0.8.05
- Talkback 2.0
- View Source Chart 2.4.05
- Web Developer 1.0.2
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:52 pm
by nickvd
No problems here either, Ubuntu 6.0.6, ff2
* Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.4
* Adblock Plus 0.7.2.1
* ChatZilla 0.9.75
* CSS Sync 0.2
* DOM Inspector 1.8.1
* Extension Manager Extended 2.5.1
* FireBug 0.4.1
* FireFTP 0.94.5
* Html Validator 0.7.9.5
* InfoLister 0.9f
* LinkChecker 0.6.1
* Talkback 2.0
* Torrent-Search Toolbar 1.0.1.27
* Web Developer 1.0.2
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:39 am
by Ambush Commander
Not to put a damper on discussion, but I've already found the offending extension. Thanks to everyone who helped out.
We could start a Firefox extensions thread...
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:10 pm
by nickvd
Care to enlighten us as to the culprit?
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:12 pm
by Charles256
Ambush Commander wrote:CookieSafe was the culprit. But that's functionality that I really need... ah well, off to find another one. Actually, this is the second extension I've gone through for easy cookie preference changes, the first one was cookie button which totally mutilated the context menus in Firefox 2.0.
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:14 pm
by Ambush Commander
It's actually mentioned here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2497/ in the comments, something that my Google searches didn't catch.