Firefox 3.6.12 Going Slow For You?

Will do. Thanks. Only thing I don't like is the limited add-on. On my system only WOT and NoScript was accepted compatible..tsk. What add-ons do you use in FF beta versions if I may ask?

Cheers!

 

I have:
Adblock Plus
BetterPrivacy
Link and Forminfo
Locationbar2
NoScript
Personal Titlebar
All working fine in 4b7. Sometimes the Add-on Compatibility Reporter will highlight add-ons as being incompatible. They may in fact work though...just have not been tested thoroughly - this a beta. You can hit the Compatibility button and confirm they work [or not] also you can disable the Add-on Compatibility Reporter if all works well [but this may not be a good idea...].

 

Install Add-on Compatibility Reporter, then most addons will work just fine. I installed more than 30 addons, some broken ones can be fixed, I only miss Tab History.

 

it's out

 

Some benchmarks on my computer, conducted on Windows 7 x64:

 

Where did the status bar go ?

sealord is there any way to hide the menu we get from personal titlebar ... and i am only getting wot in my navigational bar..all oder icons vanished

 

They took it away - big debate about that... Now called Add-on Bar...

Try F10 - is that what you mean?

Don't know about that -may depend on what version you're upgrading from and to which profile. Just re-customize.

 

add on bar doesnt show how much the page has loaded .. now i will have to find more addons..damn

oh damn it was so simple ! thanx

ya did that now i can see other things too

 

Yes, a RamDisk *does* make a difference, but it's not enough to ramdisk the cache, you need the whole profile folder, the biggest resourcehog is the constant access of the sessionstore.js and the *.sqlite files in there.


The #5 tip there is only for the cache, the benefit to cache *only* to memory is not really worth the effort, since the browser will constantly re-issue the same objects anytime you (re-)visit a recently used or new site.

This step-by-step guide works wonders for putting the whole profile folder in a ramdisk. You can still use the free Dataram RAMDisk v3.5 instead of the payed software they use in that guide.

 

"Peacekeeper" is one of those tests i never consider as reliable,it gives really weird/inconsistent results on each time i run it on the same configuration/machine,no idea why this happening tho.

as general comment for the new beta is that FF is finally heading for the right direction and by the final release we might have some pleasant surprises in the speed front.

http://arewefastyet.com/

 

I followed this guide: http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives...tting-profile-and-sqlite-database-in-ramdisk/

My entire Firefox installation is sandboxed within a ramdisk

 

You wasted your time if you installed that Ram app, all you had to do was make some changes to your about:config.

That guy doesn't know what's he's talking about over the sqlite files, they can all be cleaned out when you close Firefox and they don't build up over time or slow down Firefox.

By the way Firefox does not slow down over time if you know how to clean it out and your system and I guess this person doesn't realize that's the problem not Firefox.

See #8 comment too, you don't need that app, just use about:config.

Also this is a better tweak section;

http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_10.html

So as I mentioned before I had a feeling it was the net drivers for VirtualBox and since I've put back a clean image that didn't have VB, Firefox is running better.

 

@DasFox,

Compare both methods using ProcessMonitor, make sure you filter on "firefox.exe" and you have the column "Duration" visible, and count the differences.

 

Well I was talking about more to do with Firefox and the sqlite files over time going slow and getting big, I've personally never had either of these happen...

So you're using RamDisk for Firefox?

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk

 

I disagree, even with cleaning of sqlite files, it's still slower on a hard disk than on a ram disk.
The differences in Firefox responsiveness can be clearly seen if you had actually tried it.

 

Ok thanks...

 

Sorry forgot to ask, I noticed there are a few internet guides showing how to make for the ramdisk...


These two look to be the same;

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives...tting-profile-and-sqlite-database-in-ramdisk/

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/1...efox-or-chrome-cache-to-a-ram-disk-and-speed/


These are different;

http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-Up-Firefox-by-Running-It-In-RAM

http://www.overclock.net/other-software/674767-how-increasing-firefox-performance-ramdisk.html


So does it really matter which method, personally I like the top two, a bit simpler...


THANKS

 

Raymond actually benchmarked 12 different ram disk programs, and found Dataram to be the fastest.

 

I was talking about the TUTS/HowTo online which one to follow...

I guess I'll just follow the raymond post...

Well I did the Raymond post;
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives...tting-profile-and-sqlite-database-in-ramdisk/

Firefox doesn't start or run any faster, it runs just the same for me, I see ZERO difference.


P.S. After posting this I found another online TUT; (Following this is going to put the CACHE in ram and FF will then run much faster, instead of just the profile)

http://www.overclock.net/ssd/751627-need-tutorial-how-create-ramdrive.html

I don't understand how people think that just putting a Profile into ram is going to make a big difference, it isn't, you still have the engine and others areas of Firefox that are going to make an even bigger difference. I'm not sure for starters all of Firefox needs to be in ram either, only the parts that affect performance. Maybe some of the Mozilla developers would be the way to go and approach to see how to really go about this....

Ok another P.S. LOL...

It seems like all you can add in that makes any difference I see is the Cache and Profile, and if you then dump all of FF into ram then I"m sure you're going to have to change the about:config to reflect this or the registry to have it know to load from ram...