Firefox 0.8 problem

unkel

Have been very happy using Firefox for quite some time now - like the speed and love the tabs

Unfortunately, recently it has grinded to a halt for some sites, boards.ie amongst them. IE6 loads same page at same time very quickly. Here's the detail:

I type in www.boards.ie into browser and hit enter. Sure enough, boards.ie loads in a fraction of a second. Then when I click any link directly or open in new tab, I get the boards.ie bulletin board logo on the left top of the page immediately and in the status bar on the bottom left it says "transferring data from boards.ie...". The site stays like that for something like 30-60 seconds and eventually loads

This always happens, does not depend on time of day or anything like that

Have fast PC, plenty memory, xp fully patched and 1Mbit super steady broadband connection and like I said, IE6 is fine with exactly the same site at exactly the same time

Anybody any ideas? Help greatly appreciated

P.S. Clearing the cache makes no difference

CyberGhost

have you enabled pipelining?

and fast rendering?(I think it's the name)

unkel

Originally posted by CyberGhost
have you enabled pipelining?

and fast rendering?(I think it's the name)

Doh - where's that in the options?

CyberGhost

http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#oth_rendering

http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#oth_pipelining


you will have to create user.js file in your mozilla profile folder and write the scripts in!

your mozilla folder is located in:

X:\Documents and Settings\unkel\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\some random number and letters

hostyle

You can also edit them if you type about:config in the address bar

irishgeo

Originally posted by CyberGhost
have you enabled pipelining?

and fast rendering?(I think it's the name)

Can someone fill me in on what these do and will they improve the speed of my browser.

CyberGhost

Speed up page rendering

By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds, because it's waiting for data. If you add the code below to your user.js file, Firefox immediately tries to render the page, even without complete data. The drawback is on slower machines where doing a "reflow" may actually cause the total page load time to be longer.

Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies.

Civilian_Target

If you've got any extensions on, try unloading them and see if it helps.

Duffman

Just added those two settings.. Firefox is so unbelievably fast now

unkel

Originally posted by CyberGhost
have you enabled pipelining?

and fast rendering?(I think it's the name)

Ah yes, CyberGhost, I remember now I had added that in the user.js file last week, but it didn't make any difference. Only thing is, I created this file and put it in my C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile directory as I picked up somewhere on the web as a tip. This seems to be the correct place. There is no phoenix directory on my harddisk. There is nothing else but that in my user.js file now

Originally posted by Civilian_Target
If you've got any extensions on, try unloading them and see if it helps.

Have no extensions

Thanks for the help guys
Any more suggestions?

unkel

Just completely uninstalled Firefox (uninstall, remove directory and shortcuts, remove relevant keys in registry) and reinstalled. Makes no difference with or without the user.js file

unkel

Surely someone has another idea?

Will try whatever you suggest - short of reformat

CyberGhost

unkel, it didn't work because you placed it in the wrong place!

there IS a phoenix directory! it's just hidden! enable to show hidden files and folders in explorer options


X:\Documents and Settings\your computer username\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\some random number and letters

X: = letter of your drive(C: by default)



Duffman did it and he is happy


check this link out
http://texturizer.net/firefox/edit.html#user

unkel

CyberGhost, thanks for that excellent link :cool:

you are correct of course, that directory exists. Always have show hidden files on so dunno why I missed it yesterday

Have placed my user.js in the random name directory, rebooted, but problem not solved...

In fact it's only worse now, cause I had a look at your link and enabled tab extensions and configured it exactly like I wanted it, but now I can't really use it :mad:

Any more suggestions?

unkel

Funny thing is, there is no delay for most sites, just for some - boards.ie included

The delay is about 60 seconds, rendering Firefox useless to me

Civilian_Target

Try adding a proxy server, just a thought, it might be a DNS problem instead. If your ISP has one, that's what you should use, otherwise you can try proxy.como.socket.net:8080 which might still work.

Alternatively if Firefox is already running on a proxy, try removing it.

unkel

Civilian_Target, you're a genius - I put in NTL proxy and it works :cool:

Thanks a million everyone, I'm delighted I can use Firefox again

Civilian_Target

It wasn't firefox's fault, it was NTLs, this has happened to me to. NTL use a transparant webcache, but they rarely test it under anything but Windows/IE, so Linux/Firebird users get the blunt end of the stick. They'v e broken my compatibilty twice since September. Fortunatley, if you ever have problems with NTL stuff, help is at hand.

Check out www.nthellworld.co.uk , those guys have all the answers.