I had no problems with firefox 3 until a week ago. Suddenly browsing and page loading is extremely slow. Sometimes pages do not load at all. And it seems that once the page is loaded, I can browse that page quite fast. As if it is very hard to find the site the first time, but once it is found it goes well.
I haven’t installed any addons for firefox. The only thing I can think of is that I did an security software update through yast, but no mozilla packages were involved. What packages were installed I can’t remember.
If I try browsing Konqueror it is slow as well. However doing updates of software in yast is very fast. So it has to be a problem with a protocol used when browsing. But what could be the problem? Oh I tried disabling IPV6 in firefox but that didn’t help.
I have a 3.0Ghz Quad Core with a Geforce 8800GT 512MB DDR3 and 6GB of DDR2 ram. Everything was working great until an update and now Firefox is doing the same thing as described above.
I have similar problems. I don’t think it is driver related as Opera is fast. This is undoubtely a Firefox issue. It is true that I have many add-ons installed, but I can disable them and retest.
I disabled also IPv6 and I will reboot to see if it helps.
This is exactly the issue I am having…firefox takes forever to find the site, then works good after the fact. maybe I will try konqueror to see how it responds. FF also takes a long time to load…probably close to 20 seconds…anyone else seeing that?
I am new to openSUSE, so I kinda chalked it up to being an OS problem (although I haven’t seen this behavior on any other distro I have used over the last couple of years…) It would be nice to find out I could fix it!
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> This is exactly the issue I am having…firefox takes forever to find
> the site, then works good after the fact. maybe I will try konqueror to
> see how it responds. FF also takes a long time to load…probably close
> to 20 seconds…anyone else seeing that?
>
> I am new to openSUSE, so I kinda chalked it up to being an OS problem
> (although I haven’t seen this behavior on any other distro I have used
> over the last couple of years…) It would be nice to find out I could
> fix it!
IPV6 is definitely a Firefox problem - it has a setting that tries to use it
despite disabled IPV6 in the system. Open Firefox, go to about:config.
when the warning pops up, promise to be a good boy, then find the line that
references disableIPv6 and toggle the setting to TRUE. You’ll be amazed at
how much faster site loads go.
me too here. system: opensuse 11.1 / core2duo e4500.
both firefox 3.0 and 3.1 (from mozilla/beta repo) even with new javascript enabled are very slow. sometimes it goes 100% cpu. scrolling on long gmail threads is incredibly slow.
downgraded to firefox 2.0 (from mozilla/legacy repo) and it is much faster.
I HAD that problem too. About drove me crazy. I did all of IPV6 disabling and updated Firefox and then I got a big break. My network adapter died on me. I used a different wireless adapter (Xterasys 3133G), switched desktops from Gnome to KDE and now it flies!!! Speed test prior was about 4200 Kb/s now it is consistently in excess of 12,000. Software install speeds have gone from hours to a few minutes and pages flip faster than any other box I have. This is just a bits and pieces box too that I made from scrap and an AMD 3600+ chip
Greetings, I’ve got the same problems with slow/jerkey scrolling too. FF is the worst, but it happens with some KDE apps as well. It seams that any apps where scrolling is a function of graphics (as opposed to simple text mode scrolling like in a terminal) I experience this problem. I believe it has something to do with a botched compiz install/removal. Everything worked fine until I attempted to install compiz (which fellow penguins, after researching compiz related problems, seams more trouble than it’s worth…not ready for prime time in my opinion) and failed to make it work properly. After disabling and removing compiz all together, my scrolling is painfully slow. This is true both in KDE4 and KDE3. I’ve tried reinstalling ATI proprietary drivers, generic ATI drivers all to no avail. This feels like a simple setting somewhere in the system that directs the WM to process graphics scrolling as if it were still using compiz. If so it should be a simple fix, but I have no idea where in the system such a setting would be. Anyone out there in penguin land have any ideas?
I have also noticed this problem (very slow initial page load and quick for subsequent page loads) starting in the last week or two (I cannot remember exactly). I disabled IPv6 in Firefox shortly after first installing openSUSE 11.2, and that did help a lot at the time. I have not changed anything recently. I also suspect that a recent update may be causing the problem.
PS: I just checked my Firefox configuration, and “network.dns.disableIPv6” is still set to true, so the issue is not caused by a configuration change.
However I did notice that my applications panel was now appearing at the top instead of the bottom. A relatively minor issue and I fixed it as mentioned here -
I am happy to report that I also had this problem but have resolved it. Currently, I IPv6 disabled and I created a new wired connection with eth0 where I set a static IP for my machine and specified the IP’s for DNS’s as 1st, the router, and second, the IP of my ISP. If you need more details, I’m happy to share them.
I have similar problems. I don’t think it is driver related as Opera is
fast. This is undoubtely a Firefox issue. It is true that I have many
add-ons installed, but I can disable them and retest.
I disabled also IPv6 and I will reboot to see if it helps.
This is exactly the issue I am having…firefox takes forever to find
the site, then works good after the fact. maybe I will try konqueror to
see how it responds. FF also takes a long time to load…probably close
to 20 seconds…anyone else seeing that?
I am new to openSUSE, so I kinda chalked it up to being an OS problem
(although I haven’t seen this behavior on any other distro I have used
over the last couple of years…) It would be nice to find out I could
fix it!
mm0.
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Dell 1720 Laptop | Intel T9300 Core2Duo Processor @ 2.5Ghz | 4 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 8600M Graphics Adapter | 180.27 Nvidia driver | 1920 X
1200 Resolution
2 X 160 GB SATA HD Internal | 1 X 160 GB HD External
Using openSUSE 11.1 | KDE 4.2
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> This is exactly the issue I am having…firefox takes forever to find
> the site, then works good after the fact. maybe I will try konqueror to
> see how it responds. FF also takes a long time to load…probably close
> to 20 seconds…anyone else seeing that?
>
> I am new to openSUSE, so I kinda chalked it up to being an OS problem
> (although I haven’t seen this behavior on any other distro I have used
> over the last couple of years…) It would be nice to find out I could
> fix it!
IPV6 is definitely a Firefox problem - it has a setting that tries to use it
despite disabled IPV6 in the system. Open Firefox, go to about:config.
when the warning pops up, promise to be a good boy, then find the line that
references disableIPv6 and toggle the setting to TRUE. You’ll be amazed at
how much faster site loads go.