Why does FIREFOX take so LONG to OPEN?

[plinden]

Hmm, one to two bounces on my Intel iMac (17" with 2GB RAM), and Firefox is open and ready. I have five extensions and the Aquafox theme installed.

I think there's something else wrong with your machine.

However, is anyone else getting regular Firefox crashes after updating to 1.5.0.6? It's happened five or six times already this morning.

 

[jason2811]

Hmm, one to two bounces on my Intel iMac (17" with 2GB RAM), and Firefox is open and ready. I have five extensions and the Aquafox theme installed.

I think there's something else wrong with your machine.

However, is anyone else getting regular Firefox crashes after updating to 1.5.0.6? It's happened five or six times already this morning.

Are you talking about the Intel-build version? or the real version from Mozilla?

and how many bounces does your real Mozilla FF take to load up?

 

[thestaton]

I'm running firefox beta 2 on my g4 iBook & intel iMac. If you are complaining because you have it set to auto-open then please use some common sense. When the computer first boots into the OS it has other tasks to perform before it can load firefox.

with that said the only program I have set to auto open is mail & ichat. but I would never complain that they took longer to load on startup.

as per general use on my iBook firefox bounces 2 / 3 times then is good to go. on the iMac its pretty much instant. if its taking 6 bounces to load normally then something is deff messed up with your macbook being you have 2 gigs of ram. it should bounce once / twice at the most and get on with it.

to the user who posted the optimized build of firefox for intels. how does it compare to the release firefox releases that are UB?

I have tried camino - and quit for 2 reasons. no adblock plugin & the bookmark toolbar is awful looking.

I have tried Omniweb - and quit for a few reasons. no adblock, poor pop up protection, & the bookmark toolbar is awful looking.

Why do they insist on having an ugly default favicon is beyond me. With Firefox using the silver theme it looks really nice & clean. favicons are just ghetto in my opinion.

I have used safari with pithhelmet & saft and its not bad. the toolbar bookmarks look great, however I have never found it to be quicker than firefox.

best of luck.

 

[radiantm3]

I have tried camino - and quit for 2 reasons. no adblock plugin & the bookmark toolbar is awful looking.

I have tried Omniweb - and quit for a few reasons. no adblock, poor pop up protection, & the bookmark toolbar is awful looking.

Camino has an adblock plugin. It's part of Camitools:
http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/camitools/

Omniweb has Adblock and Pop up protection as well. I use Omniweb daily and have never had a window that I didn't want pop up on me.

 

[thestaton]

a good website to judge how good a browser is:

NSFW at all: if you are at work dont click on this link! if porn offends you dont click this link. if you are easily offended by anything don't click on this link.

http://www.entensity.net

it shredded camitools, and owned omniweb.

the reason adblock is so popular is because it has the percieve guys behind it so that its automatically updated. however adblock is the only plugin that I know I can use and avoid popups & get rid of ads.

firefox is far from a perfect browser for me in osx. they all have there perks, however I've not found one yet that does everything perfectly.

 

[jason2811]

I'm running firefox beta 2 on my g4 iBook & intel iMac. If you are complaining because you have it set to auto-open then please use some common sense. When the computer first boots into the OS it has other tasks to perform before it can load firefox.

with that said the only program I have set to auto open is mail & ichat. but I would never complain that they took longer to load on startup.

as per general use on my iBook firefox bounces 2 / 3 times then is good to go. on the iMac its pretty much instant. if its taking 6 bounces to load normally then something is deff messed up with your macbook being you have 2 gigs of ram. it should bounce once / twice at the most and get on with it.

to the user who posted the optimized build of firefox for intels. how does it compare to the release firefox releases that are UB?

I have tried camino - and quit for 2 reasons. no adblock plugin & the bookmark toolbar is awful looking.

I have tried Omniweb - and quit for a few reasons. no adblock, poor pop up protection, & the bookmark toolbar is awful looking.

Why do they insist on having an ugly default favicon is beyond me. With Firefox using the silver theme it looks really nice & clean. favicons are just ghetto in my opinion.

I have used safari with pithhelmet & saft and its not bad. the toolbar bookmarks look great, however I have never found it to be quicker than firefox.

best of luck.

as per general use (meaning not on start up but if i were to quit and reopen the program) Firefox opens in 1 bounce.

 

[triotary]

Is camino any good?

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

Ok, a few mis-conceptions here.

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests maximum setting is 8, 30 will do nothing.

nglayout.initialpaint.delay set to 0 will slow down rendering time for a page, depending on your connection speed and speed of your machine, leave it as default (250).

It takes longer to open because it's not OS X native. It's ported to OS X. Safari was built for OS X which is why it loads and renders faster than Firefox. Like said previously, the more extensions and stuff you have on Firefox also adds to load time.

That is totally incorrect. It is cross platform, there is no 'port'. Wait till version 3 of Firefox, because of Apple's fantastic API's, Firefox will be faster on OS X than Windows. Version 3 will use Cocoa, and Quartz 2DE and 3DE.

no one has answered me yet.... do extentions work on this Intel-only version of Firefox???

Yes they will work on any platform.

Deer Park is Firefox. The name shows up on some development builds, and also gets used for custom builds to help make it clear they aren't the generic mainstream releases.

Deerpark was the codename for version 1.5. Deerpark is no more as version 1.5 is outa, there are now two development versions, BonEcho which is the branch development that will go to version 2.0, Minefield which is the trunk development that will go towards version 3.0.

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

Oh, the official Mozilla version is a universal binary, it contains both x86 and PPC builds and should run in a native form to which platform you are installing it on.

 

[miniConvert]

Also, does CAMINO take a shorter time to startup than FF? Will it take less bounces to open it up at startup than FF? What are the benefits of Camino over FF? It sucks that there are no camino extentions.

Once I have opened Camino (ie so it has the little arrow under it) I can launch new browser windows instantly on my Intel mini, and by instantly I mean, well, instantly, like how a light bulb instantly comes on when you flick the light switch.