Tabbed Browsing in Firefox

nuttz

I'm just wondering if it is just me or what.

The issue I am seeing is that if I click a link in one tabbed pane in Firefox 1.5 on XP(say something on boards, because it's a slow website, because of traffic, etc) and straight away click another pane to view another page, firefox hangs until the first panes page has loaded.

This is not happening on Firefox on SUSE, or in IE7.

Has anyone else seen this?

Alvis

That happens to me too. Very annoying sometimes.

**Timbuk2**

This also happens to me. AFAIK there is no way around this. I am not sure why this isn't happening in suse, very beculiar.

It might be an extension that is doing it, something that might have to do with tabs, such as Tab Mix Plus

Here is all the extensions I have installed

Generated: Fri Mar 24 2006 17:35:06 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build ID: 2006011112

Enabled Extensions: [17]
- Adblock Plus 0.6.1.2
- BBCode 0.4.1.3
- Blue Frog SRT 0.601
- Colorful Tabs 1.0
- DOM Inspector 1.8.0.1
- DownThemAll! 0.9.8.7
- Fasterfox 1.0.3
- FireFTP 0.90.1.1
- Fuzzy Time 1.4.1
- Gmail Space 0.2
- Google Safe Browsing 1.1
- Google Toolbar for Firefox 1.0.20051122
- GooglePreview 1.3
- MR Tech Local Install 4.2.6
- Screen grab! 0.7
- SiteAdvisor Firefox Extension 20.0
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5

Disabled Extensions: [4]
- Azerty III 2.0
- Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 3.01
- Qute 3.0.4
- Silver Skin 2.6.6

Total Extensions: 21

Installed Themes: [1]
- Firefox (default)

Installed Plugins: (11)
- Adobe Acrobat
- Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 4
- MetaStream 3 Plugin
- Microsoft® DRM
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 6.5
- RealJukebox NS Plugin
- RealPlayer Version Plugin
- RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit)
- Shockwave Flash
- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

Mad Mike

OK this doesn't happen to me so it looks like its an extension problem.

If I click on a link on a slow site I can happily flick through other tabs while the original page is loading. In fact thats one of the best things about tabbed browsing - no more waiting around.

I am running up to date Windows XP SP2
Firefox 1.5.0.1
Theme: Noia 2 extreme 2.992
Adblock V.5
Adblock Filterset G
All in one Sidebar 0.6.4
IE View 1.2.7
Noscript 1.1.3.9
Reveal 1.0.4
Scrapbook 0.18.5
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.8

art

for the record, i don't have the problem either... I've no extensions on at the moment at all as it happens (new install!)

Mad Mike

I suspect the fasterfox extension - As far as I know it tries to prefetch every link on a page - all that prefetching is probably overloading your connection somewhere along the line.

**Timbuk2**

Question that is off-topic, do you know the way you can go to about:config and change you settings to be able to get maximum load on the page and whatnot, is this the as what Fasterfox does

*me puts on detective cap*
Everyone post the list of extensions that they have installed (this is really handy if you have the extension MR Tech Local Install* ). Then after you post the list of extensions, state whether you do or do not find that tabs do not load until the one in front of it loads. If we find a common pattern, we'll find out why this is happening

*To do this in MR Tech go to Tools -> My Config -> Copy - BBCode (Clipboard), and then paste here, and all the links and everything will be sorted for you

nuttz

I dont have the fasterfox extension installed and it's still happening after removing some extensions.

Here is my config:

Generated: Fri Mar 24 2006 20:04:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build ID: 2006011112

Enabled Extensions: [13]
- Adblock 0.5.3.042: http://adblock.mozdev.org
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.2: http://www.pierceive.com/
- CustomizeGoogle 0.44: http://www.customizegoogle.com/
- Gmail Notifier 0.5.5.2: http://www.nexgenmedia.net/extensions/
- Google Safe Browsing 1.1: http://www.google.com/tools/service/npredir?r=ff_sb_home
- Google Toolbar for Firefox 1.0.20051122: http://www.google.com/
- gTranslate 0.2.7: http://www.aditel.org/~ptomas/extensions/#gtranslate
- MR Tech Local Install 4.5: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/
- Performancing 1.1.1: http://performancing.com/
- StumbleUpon 2.6: http://www.stumbleupon.com/
- Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.8: http://216.55.161.203/theonekea/tabprefs/
- Talkback 1.5.0.1: http://talkback.mozilla.org/
- Web Developer 1.0.2: http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/

Installed Themes: [1]
- Firefox (default): http://www.mozilla.org/

Installed Plugins: (13)
- ActiveTouch General Plugin Container
- Adobe Acrobat
- Google Updater
- Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 6
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Microsoft® DRM
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 7.0.4
- RealJukebox NS Plugin
- RealPlayer Version Plugin
- RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) 
- Shockwave Flash
- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

**Timbuk2**

Hmmm, that is interesting.

Maybe it is Adblock, checking every tab in turn, to make sure that they do not have blacklisted items

But there is no way I am giving up Adblock, its just too good

Mad Mike

Nope - not adblock - I have adblock (see list above) and I dont have a problem.

**Timbuk2**

I have Firefox 1.5.0.1, which is the newest version

Some people did not upgrade from 1.5.0.0, Mad Mike, what version do you have???

art

Not having this problem with version 1.5.0.1, though glad I started reading this as it made me remember to go look up extensions again and hence find the excellent gspace extension!

Build ID: 2006011112

Enabled Extensions: [7]
- Adblock 0.5.3.042
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.2
- DOM Inspector 1.8.0.1
- Gmail Space 0.2
- MR Tech Local Install 4.5
- PDF Download 0.6
- Talkback 1.5.0.1

Installed Themes: [6]
- Abstract PC 0.9.9
- Aluminum Kai 1.0.20060206
- Brushed 0.9.9.7
- Firefox (default)
- Fusion Alternative 2 2.0.20060224
- Metal Lion 1.8

Installed Plugins: (7)
- Adobe Acrobat
- Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 6
- Microsoft® DRM
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 7.0.4
- Shockwave Flash
- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

Mad Mike

See earlier post

Mad Mike wrote:

I am running up to date Windows XP SP2
Firefox 1.5.0.1
Theme: Noia 2 extreme 2.992
Adblock V.5
Adblock Filterset G
All in one Sidebar 0.6.4
IE View 1.2.7
Noscript 1.1.3.9
Reveal 1.0.4
Scrapbook 0.18.5
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.8

jozi

Never had that problem.

I do use Tabbrowser Extensions for tabbed browsing.