389652 - Firefox is now unusable slow and jerky

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ken hardacre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5

I have had to start using IE again as I cannot use Firefox, because everytime I move the mouse I have to wait 10 15 seconds before it moves again?

System is Think pad 390 and original drivers in ME.

I was OK utli I upgarded......?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Firefox and wait, wait some more, OK select url, wait, wait, wait
2. Close Firefox
3. Use IE problem gone
Actual Results:  
Just start the programme

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Have you tried:

- Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- a new profile
- a reinstall in a new empty folder? 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.5)
> Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5

Do you use a faked User Agent, or did you use IE to file this bug?

> everytime I
> move the mouse I have to wait 10 15 seconds before it moves again?

WFM
 
> System is Think pad 390 and original drivers in ME.
> 
> I was OK utli I upgarded......?

Did you upgrade from 2.0.0.4, by automatic upgrade, manually started upgrade, download and new installation?

My experience: no problems running 2.0.0.5

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070713 Firefox/2.0.0.5

Desktop running Win98 (1st edition), Celeron 333 MHz, 128 MB RAM.
No problems running Seamonkey (mostly) and Firefox, often both at same time.
I'm scarce on diskspace, so sometimes a warning comes up, invisible as other programs are in the foreground.

I'm running process explorer 10.06 to monitor CPU, RAM, and pagefile sizes.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

How much RAM do you have, what's the frequency of your CPU, size of win386.swp and how much disk space is used/free?

I'm now running both Seamonkey (17 tabs open) and Firefox (1 tab) on a 4.00GB C: partition, 3.97GB used, 36.2MB free, FAT32. Seamonkey Cache and Bookmarks are on other partitions.

Install procexp, and have a look on what is going on. Of course Firefox needs some time to start on a slow notebook using a slow harddisk, and when the browser is running some time looking at a lot of entries in one of my forums, the disk starts swapping heavily, and I open a new window and kill the old one, or restart the browser.
But this doesn't happen if you just start the browser.

As you are running Firefox on a laptop, do you close firefox before closing the laptop, or does firefox hibernate? 
If you start Firefox, there's a lot of activity going on, loading your live bookmarks, checking for updates, checking extensions etc. 
How fast, and how reliable is your connection to the internet? POTS, ISDN, DSL, WLAN?

IE is loaded a start of windows, sitting there, burning memory, so it starts faster. Does it also run faster?

 

Comment 3

[ken hardacre]

Attachment: More info on an almost dead stop firefox

Hi. I have un-installed Firefox and re-installed, still slow, tried a new load in a new folder, still slow, I have tried an old version, still slow. I suspect there is something in the registry?

I can run IE without any problem, I have removed Mcafee which auto updates.

Have you got something to clear the registry?

Thanks for now

ken hardacre

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

you didn't answer any of my questions, please use the forums for getting support
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

I'm closing this as 'incomplete', feel free to reopen if you can contribute information to this bug, not just asking for support.

Comment 5

[ken hardacre]

I didn't answer your questions, because at the top of the mail you sent it says DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, and I am very confused with some of the terms in here, Faker ? sea monkey ? and now your closing this as incomplete, well thank you for nothing IE here I come.

Ken hardacre 

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I didn't answer your questions, because at the top of the mail you sent it says
> DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, and I am very confused with some of the terms in
> here, Faker ? sea monkey ? 

I didn't sent the email, bugzilla sent it, and it's the 2nd email you got from bugzilla. Where did you want to reply by mail? My adress wasn't in there.
You're supposed to answer questions by commenting here.

Please have a look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Spoofed User Agent? Have a look at that extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Seamonkey?
http://www.mozilla.org/ Other Mozilla Software
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

I didn't want to be rude, just wanted to help getting Firefox2 still running on Win98/WinMe. Firefox 3 doesn't run on WinNT, Win9x/WinME.

You still can answer the questions to contribute to solving your problem.