From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 02:50:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4543A1065670 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC5A8FC17 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwm-freebsd-questions@sentinelchicken.net) Received: from mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.22]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 13 Jul 2008 22:50:17 -0400 Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.8.6-GA) with ESMTP id OVT27726; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:50:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 207-172-209-180.c3-0.bkl-ubr2.sbo-bkl.ma.static.cable.rcn.com (HELO sentinelchicken.net) ([207.172.209.180]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 13 Jul 2008 22:50:15 -0400 Received: (qmail 15046 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2008 02:49:56 -0000 Received: from numbuscus.skepsi.net (10.0.0.2) by aeryn.skepsi.net with SMTP; 14 Jul 2008 02:49:56 -0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 40199 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:49:23 -0000 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:49:23 -0400 From: "Jason W\. Morgan" To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20080714024923.GA40177@sentinelchicken.net> References: <200807140024.m6E0Oo0m023855@maxine.cjones.org> <20080714020803.GA34297@osiris.chen.org.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080714020803.GA34297@osiris.chen.org.nz> User-Agent: mutt/1.5.18 (FreeBSD/amd64) X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr02.lnh.mail.rcn.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A150202.487ABEE8.00C2,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=207.172.4.11, so=2007-10-30 19:00:17, dmn=5.4.3/2008-02-01 X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: Firefox 3 problems - SLOW... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:50:18 -0000 On 2008.07.14 14:08:03, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 06:24:50PM -0600, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had problems with Firefox 3 installed from the ports > > being massively slow? > > > > Unlike on Windows, where the load time for the application is much > > slower (takes roughly twice as long as FF2 did), but once the > > application is loaded, it seems to be about the same, on my BSD box, > > the application loads in a little under half the time, but each page > > load takes much, much longer (8 minutes for the google firefox start > > page, 16 minutes for the welcome to Firefox 3 page, 10 minutes for the > > mozillazine home page, 6 minutes for each mozallazine forum page). On > > top of this, once the page is loaded, it take 90-120 seconds before > > you can interact with a page, and even then, interaction is slow - 5 > > seconds between clicking in the scroll bar and the window moving, 15 > > seconds between clicking a link and the browser acknowledging the > > click... I know it's not pleasant, but make sure all of your ports are updated (if they aren't already). There were some significant changes that had to happen to get FF3 running; namely, poppler and everything that depends on it. > I did experience this, and I had to tweak the following settings in > about:config before the experience became usable: > > network.http.pipelining: true > network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 10 > network.http.pipelining.ssl: true > > The image loading and display code seems to have changed significantly, > and some unintended behaviour seems to have been introduced. (I also > get ugly black boxes images if there is an resized image in the loaded > page.) I also get the annoying black boxes. I haven't tested it thoroughly yet, but it seems to happen most often with resized png images. That could just be a result of the pages I visit though; they seem to use pngs quite extensively. As for performance problems, I have noticed that FF3 is slower than FF2 at loading pages with many images, and I've had a lot of trouble with Flash (as usual). But the problems are not so significant that I've been forced to uninstall it. I wonder if your settings will help ... ~Jason