Something like Firefox, but faster starting?

[Nyarlathotep]

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

Help?

 

[Chipsonfire]

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.

 

[JNowiski]

my firefox loads fairly quickly

 

[Fontaine]

second for google chrome, starts fast, but i find ff loads pages quicker.

 

[Chunk-O-Funk]

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.

 

[Trevorus]

Your computer may have some spyware or some gunk on it. Check that out before you blame Firefox outright.

 

[Chipsonfire]

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.

 

[iamlowsound]

Firefox runs faster than anything else that I have found.

lowsound

 

[Mark Wilson]

I don't use Firefox anymore.
I use google chrome.

 

[fdeck]

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.

 

[McHaven]

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.

 

[JansenW]

Here's a link:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Increasing_startup_speed

 

[bassist 4 life]

google chrome

 

[marksmith85]

+1 for google chrome

I've got 5 different browsers on my computer and chrome is the only one I really use.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

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.

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....

 

[Nyarlathotep]

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: [email protected], 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

 

[Eric Perry]

My Firefox loads instantaneously. I have a SSD however.

 

[Grizzly700]

Get a better computer/internet connection.

 

[Arranger]

If Firefox and IE7 both drag, it's not a browser problem.

 

[mcbosler]

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.