Irishpolyglot
October 6th, 2008, 12:36 PM
I've been using Ubuntu for 9 months so far, and sadly I still haven't invested the time yet to figuring out how things work behind the scenes, but it's definitely user friendly since I have solved all issues quickly!
But for the last few weeks Firefox is being amazingly slow (or possibly the whole PC, I only really use Firefox). When I click a different tab it takes a second or two for the click to be registered and the tab to appear. Typing this message is frustrating because 5 words appear at once after a typing with nothing coming up for several seconds, and some pages are really slow to load simply because the click doesn't seem to be registered for a while (the Internet connection itself is fast).
I'd really appreciate suggestions as to make this faster. When I first installed Ubuntu everything worked super fast and my surfing style and computer use was more or less the same.
I checked System Monitor and CPU1 &2 are fluctuating a lot. Out of all the programs I have running (Skype Pidgin etc.), firefox is using up most of the CPU. I'm on a DELL Inspiron 9400 with Ubuntu 8.04. I have 20GB of space free and an Intel Core CPU T7200@2.0GHz.
Any thoughts hugely appreciated!! :)
But for the last few weeks Firefox is being amazingly slow (or possibly the whole PC, I only really use Firefox). When I click a different tab it takes a second or two for the click to be registered and the tab to appear. Typing this message is frustrating because 5 words appear at once after a typing with nothing coming up for several seconds, and some pages are really slow to load simply because the click doesn't seem to be registered for a while (the Internet connection itself is fast).
I'd really appreciate suggestions as to make this faster. When I first installed Ubuntu everything worked super fast and my surfing style and computer use was more or less the same.
I checked System Monitor and CPU1 &2 are fluctuating a lot. Out of all the programs I have running (Skype Pidgin etc.), firefox is using up most of the CPU. I'm on a DELL Inspiron 9400 with Ubuntu 8.04. I have 20GB of space free and an Intel Core CPU T7200@2.0GHz.
Any thoughts hugely appreciated!! :)