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FFighter
June 3rd, 2008, 07:38 PM
This is serious stuff, fellows.

FireFox is constantly freezing, it freezes for about 3 seconds and comes back to life, then after some minuts freezes again, I gotta wait the seconds for it to come back ot its functional state.

The freezing is also kinda of random. I feel it happens when FireFox has some "hard jobs" to do such as scrolling a page, selecting large portions of text, clicking on an hyperlink, or even while I'm writing this post (freezed 3 times already).

I have a XP VM here and FF2 on XP is much more responsive, not to mention IE.

For me, that do heavy web-development with FireBug and Charles (a web debugging proxy), it is really a serious problem, becouse FireFox usually makes my laptop act like a zombie, tooo slow. Again, XP under the same circumstances is much more stable.

I would love to know your experiences and also tips and tricks on how I could at least make FF as responsible as the XP's one.

EDIT: FF3b5. Btw, it freezed just now.
EDIT2: My lap is a C2D 1.50Ghz, 2GB RAM. I'm running Hardy Heron. Btw, it could be something related to Hardy, as I feel it is generally slower than Gutsy.

Joeb454
June 3rd, 2008, 07:57 PM
No not at all, and I believe this is somewhat of a recurring discussionn...

nick09
June 3rd, 2008, 08:01 PM
No I don't.

And this is an 3 year old computer.

Jordanwb
June 3rd, 2008, 08:19 PM
What was removed from the title? Well if it's a recurring discussion... I've had it crash Gnome several times, and also crash when I go to to YouTube, not even a video, the main page. If I load like 5 tabs if freezes.

After searching Google for "Firefox sucks" (319,000 matches) I came upon this: http://www.firefoxmyths.com/

FuturePilot
June 3rd, 2008, 08:24 PM
This is serious stuff, fellows.

FireFox is constantly freezing, it freezes for about 3 seconds and comes back to life, then after some minuts freezes again, I gotta wait the seconds for it to come back ot its functional state.

The freezing is also kinda of random. I feel it happens when FireFox has some "hard jobs" to do such as scrolling a page, selecting large portions of text, clicking on an hyperlink, or even while I'm writing this post (freezed 3 times already).

I have a XP VM here and FF2 on XP is much more responsive, not to mention IE.

For me, that do heavy web-development with FireBug and Charles (a web debugging proxy), it is really a serious problem, becouse FireFox usually makes my laptop act like a zombie, tooo slow. Again, XP under the same circumstances is much more stable.

I would love to know your experiences and also tips and tricks on how I could at least make FF as responsible as the XP's one.

EDIT: FF3b5. Btw, it freezed just now.
EDIT2: My lap is a C2D 1.50Ghz, 2GB RAM. I'm running Hardy Heron. Btw, it could be something related to Hardy, as I feel it is generally slower than Gutsy.

Explanation (http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curveballs/)

Seren
June 3rd, 2008, 08:38 PM
Also known as bug 421482. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482)

It will be fixed in RC2.

FFighter
June 6th, 2008, 07:47 PM
Indeed. It crashes A LOT with youtube. I have to use my XP VM to browse youtube because FF3b5 really can't do it.

melrom
June 6th, 2008, 07:51 PM
it's a hot topic. i'm still not sure if i agree with hardy shipping with the beta, in the first place.

agurk
June 6th, 2008, 07:59 PM
Since I installed FF3 RC1 along with Flash Player 10 beta, youtube works fine for me.

FF3 RC1: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive
FP10b: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Hope that helps

zmjjmz
June 6th, 2008, 08:12 PM
RC2 is out, so I'd assume it's fixed by now.
Until then use Epiphany (sudo apt-get install epiphany-broswer) or Kazehakase.
I'm waiting on an update to FF too.

drascus
June 7th, 2008, 01:21 AM
well I havent seen to much problem personally with FF3 in linux. however I have found that Gnu icecat is more stable for me and also a lot of the FF2 plugins work with it that don't work in FF3 for me. So that might be a worth while option for you. other than that you can submit bug reports. I expect that many of the kinks will be worked out for the final release. I hope that there will be some sort of an upgrade to Hardy when the new release comes out. However I haven't heard anything about it.

regomodo
June 7th, 2008, 01:30 AM
regularly, but only with youtube.