Speed up Firefox 3.x

[bobsoap]

Thanks for this. My slowsome bar used to meditate for about 5-10 seconds before it would respond. After every character I typed in. It looks A LOT better now. +rep

 

[Rage9]

I wish I could run Firefox on my Mac to take advantage of the plugins but it's slow as shit compared to Safari. However, Safari hangs whenever you fucks post animated gifs, so it's not all gravy. In fact, whenever I try and load Firefox on Windows machines sometimes it just doesn't fucking load, so I double click and wait 20 seconds, still nothing so I double click again and 30 seconds later there are 3 instances of FF loaded. Why is it so hard to make a decent, quick browser? I'm not a coder so maybe I'm just a fucking idiot, but I thought building a browser would be a straight forward process by now?

Man FF is so fast on Linux in pains me someones to use it in Windows - it is noticeably slower in Windows (especially on lower end systems).

There's no great reason why either. Over time all browsers seem to slow down because they just try and hold on to too much data, or people install too many plugins, or your system just sucks (my #1 vote). Take your pick.

 

[guerilla]

My systems are getting old, and I don't want to replace them until next year.

Every little bit of performance I can squeeze from them is a plus.

@all, as soon as I saw this, I was like "gotta post this at WF, everyone will need it", lol

 

[guerilla]

Bump for the hungry Jews.

 

[hylndr11]

Much needed, will be interesting to see how it performs on windows 7

 

[RoadToMillions]

Anyone on Mac get this to work? The string they give doesn't seem to do anything in Terminal.

Give it a minute. If nothing comes up, it's still working. When you try to close out of Terminal with the process still going, it will tell you that it's working.

 

[airforcematt]

Much needed, will be interesting to see how it performs on windows 7

Same performance boost (just upgraded from Vista to Windows 7)