Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...

On 2008.07.14 14:08:03, Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 06:24:50PM -0600, Keith Seyffarth wrote:

Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 3 installed from the ports
being massively slow?

Unlike on Windows, where the load time for the application is much
slower (takes roughly twice as long as FF2 did), but once the
application is loaded, it seems to be about the same, on my BSD box,
the application loads in a little under half the time, but each page
load takes much, much longer (8 minutes for the google firefox start
page, 16 minutes for the welcome to Firefox 3 page, 10 minutes for the
mozillazine home page, 6 minutes for each mozallazine forum page). On
top of this, once the page is loaded, it take 90-120 seconds before
you can interact with a page, and even then, interaction is slow - 5
seconds between clicking in the scroll bar and the window moving, 15
seconds between clicking a link and the browser acknowledging the
click...

I know it's not pleasant, but make sure all of your ports are updated
(if they aren't already). There were some significant changes that had
to happen to get FF3 running; namely, poppler and everything that
depends on it.

I did experience this, and I had to tweak the following settings in
about:config before the experience became usable:

network.http.pipelining: true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 10
network.http.pipelining.ssl: true

The image loading and display code seems to have changed significantly,
and some unintended behaviour seems to have been introduced. (I also
get ugly black boxes images if there is an resized image in the loaded
page.)

I also get the annoying black boxes. I haven't tested it thoroughly
yet, but it seems to happen most often with resized png images. That
could just be a result of the pages I visit though; they seem to use
pngs quite extensively.

As for performance problems, I have noticed that FF3 is slower than
FF2 at loading pages with many images, and I've had a lot of trouble
with Flash (as usual). But the problems are not so significant that
I've been forced to uninstall it.

I wonder if your settings will help ...

~Jason
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