Hello:
Recently (the last 2 weeks) I have noticed a definite slow down in the 2
internet browsers I use (Opera and Firefox)
I purposefully timed the start up of Mozilla Firefox this late
afternoon, it took over 5 minutes before coming up, which is astonishing.
I also tried Opera, it came up within about 9 seconds, but after I
imported the bookmarks from Firefox, it then took about 19 seconds.
I exported the Firefox bookmarks to an html file and was astonished to
discover that for each bookmark, thousands of hex characters were being
stored, the average is 1981 hex chars stored per book mark.
Why is Firefox storing almost 2K hex characters per bookmark?
After I imported the Firefox bookmarks into Opera (which required the
installation of an Opera bookmarks extension application program) then
Opera bringup slowed down significantly too. It was about 3 seconds and
stretched out to 19 secs as I mentioned previously.
Has anyone noticed the slow down? Why has Mozilla Firefox embedded
almost 2K of hex code per bookmark?
Has there been any feedback from the browser companies, as to what they
are doing with book marks and why things are running slower than every
before?
Randall
