Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:49:23 -0400 From: "Jason W\. Morgan" <jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW... Message-ID: <20080714024923.GA40177@sentinelchicken.net> In-Reply-To: <20080714020803.GA34297@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <200807140024.m6E0Oo0m023855@maxine.cjones.org> <20080714020803.GA34297@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On 2008.07.14 14:08:03, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 06:24:50PM -0600, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 3 installed from the ports > > being massively slow? > > > > Unlike on Windows, where the load time for the application is much > > slower (takes roughly twice as long as FF2 did), but once the > > application is loaded, it seems to be about the same, on my BSD box, > > the application loads in a little under half the time, but each page > > load takes much, much longer (8 minutes for the google firefox start > > page, 16 minutes for the welcome to Firefox 3 page, 10 minutes for the > > mozillazine home page, 6 minutes for each mozallazine forum page). On > > top of this, once the page is loaded, it take 90-120 seconds before > > you can interact with a page, and even then, interaction is slow - 5 > > seconds between clicking in the scroll bar and the window moving, 15 > > seconds between clicking a link and the browser acknowledging the > > click... I know it's not pleasant, but make sure all of your ports are updated (if they aren't already). There were some significant changes that had to happen to get FF3 running; namely, poppler and everything that depends on it. > I did experience this, and I had to tweak the following settings in > about:config before the experience became usable: > > network.http.pipelining: true > network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 10 > network.http.pipelining.ssl: true > > The image loading and display code seems to have changed significantly, > and some unintended behaviour seems to have been introduced. (I also > get ugly black boxes images if there is an resized image in the loaded > page.) I also get the annoying black boxes. I haven't tested it thoroughly yet, but it seems to happen most often with resized png images. That could just be a result of the pages I visit though; they seem to use pngs quite extensively. As for performance problems, I have noticed that FF3 is slower than FF2 at loading pages with many images, and I've had a lot of trouble with Flash (as usual). But the problems are not so significant that I've been forced to uninstall it. I wonder if your settings will help ... ~Jason
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