Re: Firefox 3.5

In article <u9q955l3b1tq1bqvsec3mi2a3s82796h1e@xxxxxxx>,
Bob Giddings <bobgiddings0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:24:39 -0500, bonomi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:

What he's seeing is some quirkiness more-or-less specific to _his_ machine,
so one is looking for things in the environment the application is running
in that vary from installation to installation, and that can affect
performance. Disk fragmentation, memory thrashing, and registry issues
_are_ (far and away!) the most common source for those kinds of problems.

I did a disk defrag, no difference.

Its one of those things that never hurts to do. At worst, all it does is
chew up some time.

One thing that might be worth a try -- first thing after a fresh boot-up,
launch IE and clear out all the temporary internet files. Then exit IE and
see how fast Firefox comes up. Obviously would be a nuisance to do this
regularly, but it might go a ways towards nailing the source of the problem.

It's not so big a problem
that I want to get into registry tweaking. That can cause FAR
more trouble that it likely cures.

Indeed, if done improperly. That said, I've -never- had a problem with
the tool I suggested. It is fairly conservative in what it tweaks/cleans,
practically insists that you back up the registry first, and after it tells
what it finds, it *asks* which of the stuff you want to clean up. These
folks know how to write software! <grin>

Some people have this problem, some don't. But enough DO that I
suspect they will get on it.

It seems to be primarily those who go back-and-forth between IE and Firefox.
Fetching the 'last visited', etc. stuff from IE.

I use Firefox exclusively -- have 3.5 running off a thumb drive, and find it
loads _faster_, in the 10-20% range, than 3.0.11 off the hard disk. Also,
on start-up I load "About:blank", so I'm not having to do any DNS look-up
for resolving a URL, nor waiting for network data. Every little bit helps.:)

To use a classic phrase "go figure". <wry grin>



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