Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-27 Thread Rich Braun
Ian Stokes-Rees ijsto...@hkl.hms.harvard.edu wrote: Thanks for the tip. In FF5 it looks like the default is 15s, but I've just pushed mine up to 90s with: http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/09/change-the-session-store-interval-in-firefox/ about:config That last item led me to wonder: does

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote: Not too long ago, I bought a Core i5 with 8GB of RAM, thinking that this amount of horsepower thrown at the Firefox problem would make it go away. Wrong, I was still seeing sluggish 2000ms+ response time to such simple

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Ian Stokes-Rees FF5 can be a huge memory hog. I stick with it because I make heavy use of the extensions, however I am constantly experimenting to find out which extensions may be causing the extreme memory

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Metro
MBR wrote: What have they warned you about Firebug? In my experience, several years ago when I was using a more resource constrained machine, it caused FF to hit the point of unusability much sooner than without it. Does it affect performance if Firebug's installed even if you're not using

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Ian Stokes-Rees
On 7/21/11 12:57 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Rich Braun wrote: I can make it go away for that short amount of time by killing and restarting the browser, but a day later Firefox is /always/ painfully slow -- thrashing through memory (not disk) in some inefficient piece of core code. This

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-21 Thread Robert La Ferla
On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Rich Braun wrote: Has anyone else gone through this switch? What steps could have been taken to troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this switch? I basically disabled all plugins, flash, Java, everything--and it still took over my whole system. I'm

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-21 Thread Laura Conrad
Robert == Robert La Ferla rob...@laferla.net writes: Robert On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Rich Braun wrote: Has anyone else gone through this switch? What steps could have been taken to troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this switch? I basically disabled all

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-21 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:15:30AM -0400, Rich Braun wrote: Has anyone else gone through this switch? What steps could have been taken to troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this switch? I basically disabled all plugins, flash, Java, everything--and it still took over my whole

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun Has anyone else gone through this switch? What steps could have been taken to troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this switch? I basically disabled all

[Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-20 Thread Rich Braun
Not too long ago, I bought a Core i5 with 8GB of RAM, thinking that this amount of horsepower thrown at the Firefox problem would make it go away. Wrong, I was still seeing sluggish 2000ms+ response time to such simple things as pulling up a dropdown or even echoing characters in a form. The