Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2021-01-29 Thread Marina & Steffen
Hi all My reply concerns this link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/10/msg00392.html I could solve the problem for me (debian & Firefox) as follow: 1. Firefox-Settings 1.1. Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Performance - Disable «Use recommended performance settings» - Disable «Use

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 20:52:21 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 14:27:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 13:53:45 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 14:27:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 13:53:45 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-050

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Oct 2018 at 13:53:45 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > > > > > > > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to pri

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:26:46 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > > > > > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to print out the about:config > > > page so tht it can be perused at

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Tue 16 Oct 2018 at 18:42:19 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > > > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to print out the about:config > > page so tht it can be perused at leisure.) > > prefs.js is a plain text file in the profile director

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2018-10-16 17:07 (UTC-0500): > (Actually, it would be useful to know how to print out the about:config > page so tht it can be perused at leisure.) prefs.js is a plain text file in the profile directory. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 21:48:11 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > I would sure be interested in your method of running firefox on stretch, > > > without using extensions or addons from outside the debian reposit

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 23:17:34 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > > > I agree with this opinion, and also what Dan Ritter replied. Firefox > > > > > is > > > > > now unreliable on stretch and should be avoided

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 21:43:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > > > My point > > > was that is ff needs extensions to be "secure" or reliable, and if the > > > only place to get them is from outside the debian repo, then logically, > > > the pkg belongs in "co

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-14 Thread John Crawley
On 14/10/2018 12.17, bw wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: I agree with this opinion, and also what Dan Ritter replied. Firefox is now unreliable on stretch and should be avoided. Security updates to a browser that crashes with

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, October 12, 2018 02:42:16 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:57:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > In the sense of "stable" as Debian "stable": for a period of > around 2-3 years, the software at the beginning is about the > same as the software at the end, modulo security

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:57:15PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 18:45:16 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > running software that the Debian Project does not package, and I > > wou

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 18:45:16 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > That's because Firefox is now multiprocess. > > > > > > The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching > > > web pages, de

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-12 Thread Pétùr
Le 10/10/2018 à 20:43, Sven Joachim a écrit : > Try killing xfsettingsd, that helps according to > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909818#15. Thanks! I can confirm killing xfsettingsd fixes the issue (but Xfce is not really usable after that). I have launch again xfsettings wit

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:59:00 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM. That's way too much unless > > you have very little RAM to begin with. How much total RAM do you > > have? My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only shows

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 21:04:58 (-0400), bw wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 19:11:46 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > > On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > >

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread Pétùr
Le 10/10/2018 à 23:57, Dan Ritter a écrit : I don't know what that is, exactly, but advertising and trackers now take up 90% of most web processing time and space. Running a good ad blocker like uBlock Origin will help a lot. I use ublock origin (installed from firefox addons "store" not from

Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread dekks herton
On 10/08, Pétùr wrote: Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: Hi, I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at the

Re: Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-11 Thread dekks herton
On 10/10, bw wrote: I would sure be interested in your method of running firefox on stretch, without using extensions or addons from outside the debian repositories? I never mentioned jessie, not sure what the reference is about? My point was that is ff needs extensions to be "secure" or relia

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:34:32 -0400 (EDT) bw wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all > > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken? > > > > Install an extension buil

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 19:11:46 (-0400), bw wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: > > > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an a

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread bw
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: > > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all > > > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken? I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > That's because Firefox is now multiprocess. > > > > The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching > > web pages, decoding them, and some of the rendering work. > > > > The We

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote: How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken? Install an extension built for webextensions such as Adblock Plus 3.0 or later using Firefox Add-ons Manager?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:59:00PM +0200, Pétùr wrote: > Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM. That's way too much unless > > you have very little RAM to begin with. How much total RAM do you have? > > My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread songbird
Pétùr wrote: ... > Are other users of sid experiencing the same behavior ? not that i've noticed but i only use testing most of the time and sid/experimental only for selected items... songbird

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Pétùr
Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit : First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM. That's way too much unless you have very little RAM to begin with. How much total RAM do you have? My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only shows on average 3 to 4% RAM usage even when streaming a video.

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-10-08 22:06 +0200, Pétùr wrote: > Top shows several threads with high cpu usage such as : > > PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND > > 12452 petur20 0 4030664 1,9g 67248 R 72,4 50,1 2:54.34 > firefox > 12937 petur20 0 1830092 3810

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-10 Thread Pétùr
Le 08/10/2018 à 23:31, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : I have slow startup and a brief hang during initial UI layout, but only with Adblock Plus enabled. Thanks for the report. I have the same behavior (and lag when creating new tab) but even with all the modules (including ublock) disabled.

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 22:06:18 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 > > Pétùr wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for > >> firefox in debian sid these days. > >> > >> I use

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 09/10/2018 07:07, Pétùr wrote: I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at the startup. I have to wait few seconds before being able to enter text in the address bar. I t

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Pétùr
Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: Hi, I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at the startup. I have to wait

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Hi, > > I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for > firefox in debian sid these days. > > I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at > the startup. I have to wait few seconds before being able to ent

Slow firefox and high cpu usage

2018-10-08 Thread Pétùr
Hi, I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for firefox in debian sid these days. I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at the startup. I have to wait few seconds before being able to enter text in the address bar. I tried to reset (install ne

Re: Slow Firefox redraw in Debian testing

2010-04-05 Thread debiancbien
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 03:57:59PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I've recently noticed that Firefox redraw is *really* slow on > my Debian testing machines. > I'm not sure if it's only Firefox or if it also affects some > other applications. It doesn't seem specific to a particular X driver > (I

Slow Firefox redraw in Debian testing

2010-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
I've recently noticed that Firefox redraw is *really* slow on my Debian testing machines. I'm not sure if it's only Firefox or if it also affects some other applications. It doesn't seem specific to a particular X driver (I see it both with "nv" and with "radeon"). I almost get the impression tha

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-31 Thread celejar
On 10/30/06, Jason Dunsmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Firefox 1.5 for Linux is slow on modern processors as well (frequent 100% CPU usage). Give Seamonkey a try. It's not in Etch yet, but just copy to /usr/local/ to install it. Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
celejar wrote: > My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / > rendering pages, and even things like displaying the prefs screen) and > frequently (generally whenever it's doing anything interesting, as > above) raises cpu usage to 100%, I got a 1.6 GHz Intel Dothan and 1 GB

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/30/06, celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/30/06, Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox > takes more memory than Opera does. > -- > Ed My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / renderi

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread celejar
On 10/30/06, Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox takes more memory than Opera does. -- Ed My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / rendering pages, and even things like displaying the prefs scr

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Edward Guldemond
How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox takes more memory than Opera does. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > That doesn't sound right. Try moving ~/.mozilla out of the way and start > with a fresh profile. It makes no difference. > If that doesn't work, maybe you can try launching firefox with strace > and see if you can spot something strange. I'm not familiar with strace and w

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:31 +0100, Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: > I'm using the default firefox version (1.5) in Etch and it's so > slow. I tried removing all extensions, using the "fasterfox" > extension, but it's still slow. When i compare with Opera Firefox > have a 20-40s load time! Am i the only

Slow Firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
Hi I'm using the default firefox version (1.5) in Etch and it's so slow. I tried removing all extensions, using the "fasterfox" extension, but it's still slow. When i compare with Opera Firefox have a 20-40s load time! Am i the only one? Best Regards /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:33:53PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, > > particularly on startup and window/tab operations. The browser lags >

Re: Slow Firefox performance scrolling macslash.org

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 29 2005, Marty wrote: > The FAQ on maclash.org says they use the slashdot.org blog software, called > slashcode, so that explains the page resemblence. I have emailed the site > maintainers to ask if they have made any changes to the code that could > account for the slowdown. Thanks for t

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 29 2005, John Hasler wrote: > Rogério Brito writes: > > Don't you see the problem while scrolling www.macslash.org? > > I don't see it here either. Firefox 1.0.4-1, FVWM 2.4.15-1, XFree86 > 4.2.1-6, kernel 2.6.4, dual PIII-500 with 384M. Hummm, perhaps its the dual thing that is doing the

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 29 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 04:07 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Don't you see the problem while scrolling www.macslash.org? What about > > scrolling a page with many comments, in flat mode? And what about the same > > thing done in slashdot.org? Do you see any d

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 13:32 +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 12:30, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > > Well, I don't think it is the X only. Take Opera. On Linux it is much > > faster than Firefox. > > Except that it lacks freedom, the main feature many of us are using Linux for Of cour

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
Rogério Brito wrote: Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in www.macslash.org is simply *slow* on my system while I am using Debian. On the other hand, when I boot Windows 2000 SP4 on this very same machine, I have no problems with slow scrolling on that site. I wouldn't eve

Re: Slow Firefox performance scrolling macslash.org

2005-05-29 Thread Marty
Rogério Brito wrote: On May 28 2005, Marty wrote: The difference is measurable, not subjective. I don't even have to measure in my system to see that there's something wrong: the difference is really drastic here. Slashdot, which you mention as a similar-looking page, is fast, but I don't thin

Re: Slow Firefox performance scrolling macslash.org

2005-05-29 Thread Marty
Rogério Brito wrote: On May 28 2005, Marty wrote: The difference is measurable, not subjective. I don't even have to measure in my system to see that there's something wrong: the difference is really drastic here. Slashdot, which you mention as a similar-looking page, is fast, but I don't thin

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I don't see it here either. Firefox 1.0.4-1, FVWM 2.4.15-1, XFree86 > 4.2.1-6, kernel 2.6.4, dual PIII-500 with 384M. And a Matrox G400. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread John Hasler
Rogério Brito writes: > Don't you see the problem while scrolling www.macslash.org? I don't see it here either. Firefox 1.0.4-1, FVWM 2.4.15-1, XFree86 4.2.1-6, kernel 2.6.4, dual PIII-500 with 384M. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
Rather than a Debian build, have you compared speeds with Mozilla.org's upstream? I've always run upstream and a few days ago tried Debian's 1.0.4 from Sarge and am noticing Firefox is much more sluggish. But then, I need to compare it when running IceWM as I'm also playing with KDE on this box f

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Lee Braiden
On Sunday 29 May 2005 12:30, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > Well, I don't think it is the X only. Take Opera. On Linux it is much > faster than Firefox. Except that it lacks freedom, the main feature many of us are using Linux for in the first place. Konqueror is real fast, if you want a Firefox alte

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 04:07 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 28 2005, Josh Rehman wrote: > > While I do not share this same problem, > > Don't you see the problem while scrolling www.macslash.org? What about > scrolling a page with many comments, in flat mode? And what about the same > thing d

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Josh Rehman wrote: > While I do not share this same problem, Don't you see the problem while scrolling www.macslash.org? What about scrolling a page with many comments, in flat mode? And what about the same thing done in slashdot.org? Do you see any difference in speed? Where is y

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Carl Fink wrote: > Suspicion: the version of X you're using isn't as accelerated as Windows > XP's driver. I don't suppose you're about to install X.Org? I'm using a Matrox G400 here. I suspect that there isn't much to optimize for this card. BTW, the version of Windows that I ha

Slow Firefox performance scrolling macslash.org (was: Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system)

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Marty wrote: > The difference is measurable, not subjective. I don't even have to measure in my system to see that there's something wrong: the difference is really drastic here. Slashdot, which you mention as a similar-looking page, is fast, but I don't think that that's the right

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Jacob S wrote: > Yea, or even compare window managers. My sistem is quite minimal here. I use fluxbox without any bells and whistles (I use the Minimal Style, since, as I said, my box is not that powerful). -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Home

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Jacob S wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 > Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rogério Brito wrote: > > > Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in > > > www.macslash.org > > > is simply *slow* on my system while I am using Debian. > > > > I see it too.

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Marty
Josh Rehman wrote: While I do not share this same problem, I think this is an oppurtunity to learn a little bit about application profiling under Debian, especially desktop application profiling. When the obvious solutions fail (such as doing a complete reinstall) I think it would be best to fi

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Josh Rehman
While I do not share this same problem, I think this is an oppurtunity to learn a little bit about application profiling under Debian, especially desktop application profiling. When the obvious solutions fail (such as doing a complete reinstall) I think it would be best to find out exactly where th

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 08:07:18PM -0400, Marty wrote: > I should note, however, that Konqueror and Mozilla also seem slow on that > page. I tried it with IE on WinXP (did't have Firefox there), on a slower > machine, and it was *much* faster, so maybe X11 is part of the problem. Suspicion: th

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Marty
Jacob S wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:07:18 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jacob S wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 > Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Rogério Brito wrote: >> > On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: >> >> On the other hand, the windows versions of Fire

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:07:18 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 > > Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Rogério Brito wrote: > >> > On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > >> >> On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox a

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Marty
Jacob S wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: >> On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird >are > amazingly fast. This is really said ... > > Indeed. One thing that has p

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > >> On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird > >are > amazingly fast. This is really said ... > > > > Indeed. One thing that has puzzled

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Marty
Rogério Brito wrote: On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are amazingly fast. This is really said ... Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in www.macslash.org is simply *slow* on my system while I am using

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are > amazingly fast. This is really said ... Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in www.macslash.org is simply *slow* on my system while I am using Debian. On the other

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 28 May 2005 21:15, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are > amazingly fast. This is really said ... Some of the windows ports seem to leave linux versions in the dust due to the higher number of users and developers on windows,

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 16:33 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, > > particularly on startup and window/tab operations. The browser lags > > noticeably, a feature it

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, > particularly on startup and window/tab operations. The browser lags > noticeably, a feature it shares with Mozilla and a couple other apps > (most noticably OpenOff

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Keith Edmunds
Karsten M. Self wrote: - Stock Firefox theme. Numerous extensions loaded. System load is ~0.5. I've seen performance problems in the past when there were old versions of extensions loaded (particularly tab preferences). I'd start by trying a fresh install (or removing all extensions)

Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, particularly on startup and window/tab operations. The browser lags noticeably, a feature it shares with Mozilla and a couple other apps (most noticably OpenOffice.org). All of them share the characteristic of opening to an initial