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bruce48

join:2001-05-07
Saugerties, NY

[FireFox] FF 3.5 taking forever to load

FF 3.5 takes almost 30 seconds to start cold on a new boot and almost 10 seconds warm.

I have 6 add-ons on a Core2 Quad CPU Q6600, 4 g ram, vista 32, 260 GPU.

The add-ons:
Ad Block Plus
G Mail Notifier
Morning Coffee
Net Video Hunter
Read It Later
Secure Login

The previous version was much quicker.

Any suggestions?

ZPurpleHippo

join:2009-05-28

Sorry to say, but my FF 3.5 opens just as fast as 3.x. Have you tried starting FF in safe mode? Does the problem continue in that?



Traxless
Premium
join:2005-02-16
USA

reply to bruce48
The only suggestion I have for this kind of issue is a clean install of FireFox. It's often saves me time and frustration verus the alternative.



goalieskates
Premium
join:2004-09-12
Knoxville, TN

reply to bruce48
Check out this thread:

»forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic···=1326475

Addresses slow startups and a couple of other issues.



seaquake
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-23
Millersville, MD

reply to bruce48
I'm having the same issue. A good 10 seconds to load. I've got ABP, RIP and IE tab installed. Cleared out the IE Temporary files and no joy.



freebird317
Premium
join:2004-02-23
Portland, OR
Reviews:
·Comcast

reply to bruce48
Here is more info on the "bug"

»www.crn.com/software/218400171;j···JUNN2JVN
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BillinNY

join:2002-04-09
Hyde Park, NY

reply to bruce48
Yes, same issue here on 3 pc's I updated to 3.5.



Fireblade

join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
kudos:2

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reply to bruce48
Takes 5-15 seconds to load, clean installs on 2 PC's and a laptop. Very annoying.

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capdjq
Butt out
Premium
join:2000-11-01
WetCoaster

Why the uproar over the slow loading times of 3.5. My 3.0.1.1 was no faster than the current 3.5, which is painfully slow to open.



seaquake
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-23
Millersville, MD
Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS

said by capdjq:

Why the uproar over the slow loading times of 3.5. My 3.0.1.1 was no faster than the current 3.5, which is painfully slow to open.
Prior to my upgrade from 3.x (whatever the latest path release of 3.0 was), I loaded Firefox in a second or two. That's why there's an "uproar".


Fireblade

join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
kudos:2
Reviews:
·Cogeco Cable

reply to bruce48
I have a monster of a computer, waiting almost 25 seconds sometimes for my browser to load is kind of... Stupid? Don't you think?

With another browser I would have found what I was looking for by then and closed the browser.
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goalieskates
Premium
join:2004-09-12
Knoxville, TN

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reply to seaquake

said by seaquake:

said by capdjq:

Why the uproar over the slow loading times of 3.5. My 3.0.1.1 was no faster than the current 3.5, which is painfully slow to open.
Prior to my upgrade from 3.x (whatever the latest path release of 3.0 was), I loaded Firefox in a second or two. That's why there's an "uproar".
Either way, it's a browser, not world peace.

Folks might be frustrated, but venting "uproars" at fellow users isn't going to solve a thing. Just as bragging about monster computers isn't going to impress many. Darn things start going obsolete the minute you buy them. Although it's interesting that many who aren't having problems don't run monster computers.


Fireblade

join:2008-08-27
St Catharines, ON
kudos:2

reply to bruce48
I changed offline caching in about:config to 125mb from 500mb, seems to speed the start up by A LOT.
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I love fish sticks. I love putting fish sticks in my mouth.



imtim83
Premium
join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA

said by Fireblade:

I changed offline caching in about:config to 125mb from 500mb, seems to speed the start up by A LOT.
Does it help with the memory leak after having a lot of tabs open as well?


Frydays

join:2005-10-21
South Padre Island, TX
Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable

reply to bruce48
i had that problem with all browsers but i found out the problem was kav 2010 it even killed the webcams i was watching i didnt even install the webav part of it and it still did something when i opend any browser or tried watching webcams so i uninstalled it an the problem was solved went back to kav 2009



imtim83
Premium
join:2001-06-03
Kenner, LA

said by Frydays:

i had that problem with all browsers but i found out the problem was kav 2010 it even killed the webcams i was watching i didnt even install the webav part of it and it still did something when i opend any browser or tried watching webcams so i uninstalled it an the problem was solved went back to kav 2009
kav is pretty much a memory hog but a good anti-virus.


earthqueen

join:2006-03-03
Kansas City, MO

reply to bruce48
I didn't notice the browser loading time being a big issue...my problem has been page loading time...dismal. It felt like I was back on dial-up.

I couldn't stand it anymore....I downgraded to 3.0.0.11

What a relief to be rid of that page hang thing, and the non-functioning drop-downs. It was so bad that when I tried to open a tool bar dropdown, I would get only the Windows shadow for a few seconds and then the menu would appear...sometimes. Other times I had to select it repeatedly before it would respond. NOT GOOD FireFox.....

As soon as it replaced 3.5 with the last 3.0 version, everything was back to normal.



BillinNY

join:2002-04-09
Hyde Park, NY

1 edit

Ditto the above post!



Cudni
La Merma - Vigilado
Premium,MVM
join:2003-12-20
Someshire
kudos:13

reply to bruce48
no problems at all with load times on several machines both xp and vista

Cudni



Grail Knight
Qui audet adipiscitur
Premium
join:2003-05-31
Valhalla
kudos:6
Reviews:
·Time Warner Cable

reply to earthqueen
If you have Microsoft Net installed it added an extension (Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant v1.1) to Fx and if you disable or remove that extension it may speed up Fx and reduce crashes.

More info available in this thread at MozillaZine.

»forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic···=1246085
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