From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 03:22:51 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 61A271065676 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207F98FC0C for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6E3Mmdt014929; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:48 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m6E3MlBK014926; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:47 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: "Jason W. Morgan" In-Reply-To: <20080714024923.GA40177@sentinelchicken.net> Message-ID: References: <200807140024.m6E0Oo0m023855@maxine.cjones.org> <20080714020803.GA34297@osiris.chen.org.nz> <20080714024923.GA40177@sentinelchicken.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (BSF 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:22:48 -0600 (MDT) Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 03:22:51 -0000 On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Jason W. Morgan wrote: > 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. That's a known bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414928 > 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. FF3 seems to be faster than 2.0.0.14 for me (on 7.0-STABLE). Flash 7 seems to be no worse than 2.0.0.14, which is to say that it works maybe half the places it's used, and does nothing on the others. Come to think of it, 2.0.0.14 would lock up on many of those, and FF3 does not. Adblock Plus and FlashBlock help, too. One other note: FF3 wanted to check my extensions for compatibility almost every time it started. A process for disabling that check is described here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updating_extensions It's just adding these two settings to about:config: extensions.checkCompatibility false extensions.checkUpdateSecurity false That didn't stop every check, though. Adding those two settings to the default profile (/usr/local/lib/firefox3/defaults/profile/prefs.js) in addition to the user settings seemed to stop all the checks. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA