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Firefox 2.0 running slowly
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Whitchurch, Hampshire, England
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I have recently upgraded Firefox to version 2.0 and have found recently that it is running very slowly. Pages load up OK but actually navigating using the scroll bars is a bit of a nightmare as there is a long delay. The spinning wheel when loading pages is very slow and stuttery too. I also have a lot of bookmarked pages.
Safari seems a lot better.
I am using a G4 800MHz Power Mac with OS X 10.3.2. I'm not sure if the hard drive capacity is an issue - it shows up as 38.17GB capacity, available 16.13GB, used 22.04GB.
Any ideas?
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Last edited by Nick_G; Dec 6, 2006 at 04:07 PM.
Reason: correction)
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Your hard drive space is fine. Do you hear a lot of hard drive activity? If so, that would indicate a lack of RAM.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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No, there is no hard-drive activity. The computer seems pretty responsive on the whole.
I have 512MB of RAM, so that should be plenty I would have thought.
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There are too many fools following too many rules.
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Maybe Firefox is hogging a lot of that RAM. You said the same thing with Safari is much better - is that when both FF and Safari are open or just Safari by itself? If the latter then its definitely FF.
You could try downloading an optimized Firefox nightly build for a G4 and see if that makes things better. On my G4 it makes a lot of difference.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Hmm, very odd.
I have got Firefox open again now and it seems much better tonight. Safari is open too.
I might try your suggestion of downloading an optimized build though.
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