[xubuntu-users] Firefox Slow

[Lee Gold]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012, at 03:57 PM, James Freer wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Lee Gold wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > FF 15.0 just frooze Xubuntu 11.10. Never happened before. I thought this
> > stopped happening with Netscape 4.0 -  a top heavy javascripted page
> > (the new improved Yahoo)  couldn't get itself together and FF just fooze
> > and EVERYTHING else on the desktop also frooze.  I'm just reporting what
> > I see...
> >
> > Don't see the equivalent slowness happening on dual booted on same
> > laptop WinXp with FF with tons of addons.
> >
> > Epthany/Gnome Web Browser on Xubuntu is very fast, very smooth, but less
> > features vs. FF.
> 
> I found FF slow even when i'd removed all addons. I found Epiphany fast
> but 
> didn't cope with some webpages. I switched to Chrome about a year ago and
> like 
> it. Those who don't like google tracking there is Chromium [but i had
> problems 
> with that... can't remember now]. Chrome has so far coped with all and
> i'm 
> pleased with it.
> 
> james
> 

Thanks. I need to apologize though. I found the even with Epipthany the
particular web page was causing the same problem - freezing the desktop
. So I use Firefox and disable javascript for the page and it still
works pretty much but is trouble free so far. Firefox has been a bit
sluggish but seems like page's scripting is causing problems(?) I won't
harp anymore about this...

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