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06-16-2009, 08:02 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: West Coast of Canada | | | Something like Firefox, but faster starting?
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Unless I've closed it down just a few minutes previous, FF takes like 5 mins to even show the title bar on the screen, never mind everything else.
Ive noticed the same thing with IE 7 and 8 to, but I hate those anyways LOL
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06-16-2009, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Socorro, NM | | Google chrome. It's the $#!7. Works faster than anything else I've used, but still has some bugs and isn't quite as functional. I think it's still in beta.
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06-16-2009, 08:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Fayetteville/NC | | | my firefox loads fairly quickly
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06-16-2009, 08:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: St. John's, NL | | | second for google chrome, starts fast, but i find ff loads pages quicker.
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06-16-2009, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by JNowiski my firefox loads fairly quickly | Me too.
In the bottom left corner, is there any indication which website it's trying to connect with? It might say "waiting for" or "Transferring data".
I think I had a similar problem. It would only happen here and other forums that would use google ads. Something call google-analytics was slowing me down to a crawl. Been using the NoScript add-on ever since. |
06-16-2009, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | Your computer may have some spyware or some gunk on it. Check that out before you blame Firefox outright.
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06-16-2009, 08:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Socorro, NM | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevorus Your computer may have some spyware or some gunk on it. Check that out before you blame Firefox outright. | This is a good point. Run Ad-Aware and SpyBot to get rid of the junk clogging your system.
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06-16-2009, 08:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | Firefox runs faster than anything else that I have found.
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06-16-2009, 09:15 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Levy's Leathers Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto/Niagara Falls, Ontario | | | I don't use Firefox anymore.
I use google chrome. |
06-16-2009, 10:01 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Is Google Chrome as secure as Firefox + NoScript?
Still, if FF is that sluggish on the OP's system, then something is wrong. Does the system have enough RAM? If it's an antiquated computer, then it might be worth installing some flavor of Linux that makes less demands on the system. |
06-16-2009, 10:40 PM
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Moderator for EHX Forums | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Houston/Nacogdoches | | | The only time I have ever seen Firefox take more than 30 seconds to load is on a 5 year old, 512MB ram system.
Clean up any potential spyware/adware/virus/etc.
If that doesn't help, get Google Chrome.
Maybe the new version of Opera.
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06-16-2009, 10:49 PM
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06-16-2009, 11:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bowling Green, Ohio | | | google chrome |
06-17-2009, 06:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Glasgow, Scotland | | | +1 for google chrome
I've got 5 different browsers on my computer and chrome is the only one I really use.
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06-17-2009, 11:07 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: West Coast of Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk In the bottom left corner, is there any indication which website it's trying to connect with? It might say "waiting for" or "Transferring data". | Not talking about page loading, but the prog itself. Double click -> appearing on screen time is whats bad. Quote:
Originally Posted by Trevorus Your computer may have some spyware or some gunk on it. Check that out before you blame Firefox outright. | I'd say you're right, but after doing a big reset and reinstall on my laptop, same deal. Not slower on the laptop over the big comp downstairs either.
And I barely have ANYTHING running on the LT. AVG, sunbelt firewall.
My LT is running 1.7Ghz proc, and 593MHz/1G RAM
Not sure on the one downstairs, but it does have 4G RAM IIRC. Had to have it rebuilt after I fried the old CPU and Motherboard. Scorchmarks on the motherboard, and the CPU actually destroyed any board it was put into.
Crazy times.... |
06-17-2009, 11:45 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: West Coast of Canada | | Oh, and I have Chrome on my desktop (switched comps on y'all  ), and it starts really fast  I like FF for the AdBlock+ tho.....
Crazy. My big comps stats: E6550@2.33Ghz, and only 2Gs of ram (apparently @ 2.33Ghz?). Forgot that I use to have 2 512Ms and a 1G stick, and dood changed em to 2x1G when I burned the cpu and board  |
06-17-2009, 11:56 AM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | My Firefox loads instantaneously. I have a SSD however. 
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06-17-2009, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Maryville, TN | | | Get a better computer/internet connection.
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06-17-2009, 02:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Pennsylvania | | | If Firefox and IE7 both drag, it's not a browser problem. |
06-17-2009, 02:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Plano, TX | | | Chrome is the fastest for me, and it was the only browser that couldn't be hacked at the pwn2own contest. There's a script available for it to make it block ads (should be easy to find with a search).
If everything else is running slow (not just Firefox), I'd recommend Ccleaner - it's a free program that cleans junk files and the Windows registry. I've found it very reliable, and as soon as it's done, everything is much snappier. After you run it, it's a good idea to defrag your hard drive too - the Windows defragger is okay; I prefer Auslogics Disk Defrag for that. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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