schondie Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I'm running Firefox 26 on my PC and have noticed it runs quite slowly for some reason. A couple of weeks ago I reformatted my Linux Mint as I thought it may have something to do with Mint. To cut a long story short; whatever I've tried has made no difference. Disabled all the add-ons, cleaned out the cache, updated all the plug ins and removed themes etc. I have exactly the same set up on my laptop without seeing any lag or jerky scrolling movements. Both are running Xubuntu with FF 26, I copied my PC profile over the the laptop and that works well. The wife has reported the same problems on her work laptop running Win 7 and her home laptop isn't having these problems. Anyone else experiencing these things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKASA Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Mine working fine in both win7 and linux even when running from a virtual PC it is working fine too. Check your java maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhizBang Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Abominably slow for me too (Windows), which is why I have now abandoned firefox. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noikrit Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Mine slow too .... Windows 7 .. About 4 days now ..... Would also appreciate any thoughts .... Thanks ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schondie Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) SOLVED! I was trying to deduce why my laptop Firefox was running fine but my PC Firefox wasn't, then it hit me. It turned out that I needed to update my Nvidia drivers on my PC. My laptop has an Nvidia card but I don't use it, I only use the Intel one as I don't play games on the laptop. Maybe this will work for Win 7 computers also, update the graphic card drivers and see if that fixes the issue with Firefox 26, and as RKASA suggested. update Java and maybe all the other plug ins and add ons. I'll post back regarding Win 7 Firefox 26 as I'm about to check out my wife's laptop for a solution. Edited February 9, 2014 by schondie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Upgrade to Firefox 27. I am happy with that and Windows 7. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schondie Posted February 9, 2014 Author Share Posted February 9, 2014 After checking the drivers and running Windows Update I found out my wife runs Firefox 27 in Sandboxie, I updated everything including Sandboxie and now it seems to be running faster that earlier. I hope this helps others out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draftvader Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) Thanks for that tip. I had noticed that FF was crashing whilst running Firebug REGULARLY. Shall force update to 27. -- EDIT -- It knows! I just went to About and it started to update Edited February 9, 2014 by draftvader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aforek Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Firefox is the best, don't leave it: if problems, they come from your computer ; Chrome is watching you ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrimpythailand Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 am using FF 27 and i just started to get the meesage " torrent is invalid bencoding on my movie torrents which I never had before - tried the same same DLed form Opera and no problem... hmm just started a few days ago - will have to figure out what the prob is... but my main browser is Opera... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozyjon Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Have a look at the Tor Browser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Firefox may or may not be the best. Personally, I found it to be slower than Chrome and IE, but not by much. These Jan 12 thru Jan 13 worldwide PC browser stats show Firefox and IE usage continues to trend slowly downward and Chrome continues to trend slowly upwards. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201301-201401 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorri Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 noikrit, on 09 Feb 2014 - 10:55, said:Mine slow too .... Windows 7 .. About 4 days now ..... Would also appreciate any thoughts .... Thanks ... Your problem may not be win 7 or firefox.. I'm using win 7 and IE 11, in the last few days, many international sites have firstly loaded slowly, yesterday, some were so slow they were unusable, today, those same sites do not load... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChoakMyDee Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I stopped using Firefox a couple years ago. It was too slow and buggy. I use Chrome now, it's much better and never crashes. I actually like the fact that Chrome synchronizes everything between PCs. I travel a lot and it's good to log into Chrome from any computer in the world and get all my settings, bookmarks from my home PC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippydedodah Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 i mostly was using Chrome, switched to FF when i discovered how easy their Anonymox plugin made it possible to have a US or UK ip. then 2 days ago, updated to 27 and BAM... FF is freezing often (particularly in "private" mode) and making a mess out of grabbing torrents... so back to Chrome... might just uninstall FF completely and do a clean install...see if that clears things up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 (edited) Abominably slow for me too (Windows), which is why I have now abandoned firefox. i stopped up grading at firefox 21 Plus i love Alexa which does not work on the updates i use Tor when i want stay under the radar but that is slower on the average (but an added bonus is i can access Silk road forums) :-) Edited February 9, 2014 by phuketrichard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silent Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Firefox may or may not be the best. Personally, I found it to be slower than Chrome and IE, but not by much. These Jan 12 thru Jan 13 worldwide PC browser stats show Firefox and IE usage continues to trend slowly downward and Chrome continues to trend slowly upwards. http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201301-201401 Capture.JPG Agree with that. I'm using 7, occasionally check out both Firefox and IE to see if they might be faster than chrome and they never are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risky11 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 (edited) I was ready to switch entirely to Chrome, but when I download photos, Chrome does not remember the last directory I used - whereas Firefox does. Firefox has a problem with java and will not play Pandora. It also will not let me use a great screen capture program called FireShot. Therefore, I use both. By the way, I want to to use RealPlayer to download videos. Can't seem to do it in either Chrome or FF. Any solutions or workarounds? I really don't like IE... Edited February 10, 2014 by risky11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docno Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 My Firefox 27 (Win 7) had been very slow for the past few weeks. It would start fine, but after while, everything would slow down, even using the scroll bar. It also seemed to be interacting with something here at ThaiVisa because I would only notice the problem after having the forums open in tab for a while ... I suspected that FF was getting caught up in some sort of script run by the ads/page banners. Anyway, FF updated itself to 28 yesterday. So far so good... fingers crossed. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schondie Posted February 10, 2014 Author Share Posted February 10, 2014 I thought the problem of jerky scrolling and other assorted glitches were the fault of Firefox but now I'm more inclined to think it may have more to do with the plug ins, add ons and drivers. It seems as if people who are having problems are switching to Chrome or IE but there's little love for Opera here. Fast, stable and the standard download manager is far faster than the standard Firefox one. For Firefox, DownThemAll is a superb downloader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer666 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I have Firefox on my Ubuntu system and it works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I was ready to switch entirely to Chrome, but when I download photos, Chrome does not remember the last directory I used - whereas Firefox does. Firefox has a problem with java and will not play Pandora. It also will not let me use a great screen capture program called FireShot. Therefore, I use both. By the way, I want to to use RealPlayer to download videos. Can't seem to do it in either Chrome or FF. Any solutions or workarounds? I really don't like IE... I use YouTube Video Downloader which is free and works well for me and there is also a paid version which has more features. http://www.ytddownloader.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schondie Posted February 10, 2014 Author Share Posted February 10, 2014 I was ready to switch entirely to Chrome, but when I download photos, Chrome does not remember the last directory I used - whereas Firefox does. Firefox has a problem with java and will not play Pandora. It also will not let me use a great screen capture program called FireShot. Therefore, I use both. By the way, I want to to use RealPlayer to download videos. Can't seem to do it in either Chrome or FF. Any solutions or workarounds? I really don't like IE... I use YouTube Video Downloader which is free and works well for me and there is also a paid version which has more features. http://www.ytddownloader.com/ I don't know if YouTube Video Downloader can also download from other sites so I use Flashgot integrated with DownThemAll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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