FF is REALLY slow in fresh 11.1 install...

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#1

I have multiple machines, all with multiple Linux boots. This is by far the slowest.

I don’t think it’s cookies loadin’ either. One thing I’m seein’ is ‘beagle’, doin’ some indexin’.

This ain’t a ‘Snoopy’ beagle, is it?

Any ideas? Setting mods?

#2

Yes Beagle is indexing things in FF. I just uninstalled it myself. It will be a FF-Beagle package. That could be the reason for the slow down.

#3

Yes, it’s very slow. After you get all the updates it improves a lot, but to really speed up firefox there are a couple of things you should do:

  • First, remove beagle. It makes everything sooo sloooww… and consumes sooo much cpu time. I suggest you remove completely from your system (if running gnome you won’t be able to remove one package libeaglec1. That’s ok, that won’t slow you down).

  • Secondly, you might want to disable ipv6 in firefox. You can do so by doing this:

  • Open firefox
  • Browse: about:config
  • Type ipv6
  • double click on it to disable
  • close and open again

These two things give firefox a major speed boost as well as the updates.

#4

I’m workin’ on beagle deletion.

Where is ‘Browse: about:config’?

#5

my bad!!

type: about:config on the browser (where you write the website addresses)

Andres

#6

network.dns.disableIPv6;true

Is this ‘disabled’?

When I had it disabled before, I found it in another application’s GUI configuration. Can’t remember where it was, so I did the ‘about:config’, and entered filter ‘ipv6’.

#7

yes that is disabled. Firefox should be faster now. Please explain what you mean that you found it in another GUI’s configuration

#8

One should not only disable IPv6 in Firefox, but also systemwide.

Open /etc/sysconfig/sysctl with an editor, look for a line that says ‘IPV6_FORWARD’ and replace ‘yes’ with ‘no’. Restarting the network afterwards is necessary to deactivate IPv6 for good.

#9

Open /etc/sysconfig/sysctl with an editor, look for a line that says ‘IPV6_FORWARD’ and replace ‘yes’ with ‘no’
Found it; already set for ‘NO’; thanks on that.

Please explain what you mean that you found it in another GUI’s configuration
I cannot remember where I found the setting to uncheck IPv6 protocol. I thought it was in Firefox/Edit/Preferences/Advanced… but I cannot find it there. :\ (now running new FF version tho’)

SuSE was installed with a bad ramstick, which might have accounted for further slowing FF.