Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
On Sun 2008-07-13 18:24:50 UTC-0600, Keith Seyffarth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 3 installed from the ports being massively slow? No. I installed it from Ports on a FreeBSD 7.0 and it seemed to run with no major dramas. Certainly no long delays between page views like you're experiencing. It sounds like you might be having some sort of networking (DNS?) issue. To rule that out, one experiment you can try is to browse some local files, eg. /usr/share/doc/handbook/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
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 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.) Hope this helps. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear - Edmond Blackadder III ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
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.) Hope this helps. Yes, I have the same problem (lagg and black boxes), not only on FreeBSD but also on Gentoo Linux. However I do not have that MUCH lag. I'll try with your settings. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Jason W. Morgan wrote: 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. That's a known bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414928 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. FF3 seems to be faster than 2.0.0.14 for me (on 7.0-STABLE). Flash 7 seems to be no worse than 2.0.0.14, which is to say that it works maybe half the places it's used, and does nothing on the others. Come to think of it, 2.0.0.14 would lock up on many of those, and FF3 does not. Adblock Plus and FlashBlock help, too. One other note: FF3 wanted to check my extensions for compatibility almost every time it started. A process for disabling that check is described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updating_extensions It's just adding these two settings to about:config: extensions.checkCompatibility false extensions.checkUpdateSecurity false That didn't stop every check, though. Adding those two settings to the default profile (/usr/local/lib/firefox3/defaults/profile/prefs.js) in addition to the user settings seemed to stop all the checks. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
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.) Johnathan, thanks a ton, that seems to have corrected it. We're now back to nearly the performance of FF2. Though I haven't seen the black images issue yet. Thanks, Keith S ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW...
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Warren Block wrote: One other note: FF3 wanted to check my extensions for compatibility almost every time it started. A process for disabling that check is described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updating_extensions It's just adding these two settings to about:config: extensions.checkCompatibility false extensions.checkUpdateSecurity false That didn't stop every check, though. Adding those two settings to the default profile (/usr/local/lib/firefox3/defaults/profile/prefs.js) in addition to the user settings seemed to stop all the checks. Update: no it didn't. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
