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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 05:39 pm
[personal profile] tamaranth
... not me (well, not much) but the interwebs. I mean, so slow that even Gmail takes ages to load: forget watching streamed videos.

Apparently this is a known issue with Firefox 3.6. Phew!

*downloads Chrome beta.*

Incidentally ... I want to run two separate browsers with two separate sets of cookies (so I can stay logged into Google on one and not the other. Any suggestions for winning combinations? I've used Firefox and Flock up to now.

Date: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 1crowdedhour.livejournal.com
Opera? (Loved the Hadrian's Wall links!)

Date: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daveon.livejournal.com
Any problems you hit with Firefox are probably going to be hit with Flock - they share pretty much the same core. I use Flock and Chrome most of the time with IE as a backup for very very very picky sites.

Date: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shui-long.livejournal.com
Fasterfox (http://download.cnet.com/Fasterfox/3000-11745_4-10461469.html) allegedly tweaks settings to speed up Firefox; I haven't tried it, so can't comment.

Speedyfox (http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox) does actually seem to work; it defragments the Firefox databases, which become increasingly crufty over time.

(But whatever possessed Mozilla to adopt sqlite database structures that seem to collect inordinately large volumes of data on browsing history?)
I'd consider switching to Chrome, if I could find out how to run it without handing far too much personal data to Google...

Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perlmonger.livejournal.com
Best way to reset FF to a sane state is to clear the context data [livejournal.com profile] shui_long mentions: use "Bookmark all tabs" on your window(s); shut the thing down without saving tabs and windows; start it up again (after it eventually sorts its memory allocation out and actually stops running); reopen all your tabs with "Open all in tabs" in your saved tabs bookmark folder.

Running multiple independent FFen is easy: create multiple profiles and fire each up with a command line like "firefox -p profilename -no-remote".

Having written all that, I use Chrome now for all my non-work-related browsing; haven't found a way to run multiple instances of that yet.

Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 03:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com
I've tried restarting FF (keeping an eye on its memory-gobbling via TaskManager) but even after a full shutdown, it was horribly sluggish -- while other browsers weren't.

However, am eager to have a play with multiple profiles, which might fix my problem!

Date: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tessabeth.livejournal.com
Slightly random suggestion -- I'm finding that running just Chrome but with an "incognito window" works pretty well. You can log on to two separate gmail accounts with a single browser that way. Would that solve your problem?

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