FireFox 19 and this forum

[ka9yhd]

Using Firefox 19 on PClos-Openbox Bonsai and for some reason, only with these forums the scrolling is very very slow.  Press the down arrow key and wait.

If I go to the old forums, that we moved from, or any other web site the scrolling is fine.

I also have Chromium installed and it is way faster then Firefox.

[djohnston]

What do your "Browsing" settings look like?

[patrick013]

If your cache size is set to zero there should be no problem.
My firefox on Bonsai is actually about the fastest firefox I
use.     Very responsive scrolling thru any web pages.

Close Firefox and restart Firefox, probably is stuck in RAM
in the middle of some other program.    Cache Status add-on
is nice as I make the RAM cache bigger and it doesn't fill up as fast.

Clear the RAM cache will speed it up after using it all night too.

FYi


@DJ

What theme is that ?     Looks pretty good.

[djohnston]

@DJ

What theme is that ?     Looks pretty good.

Noia4. i like it.

[konaexpress]

Yea, it is cool looking. I forgot you could theme Firefox.

[djohnston]

Rob,

Do you see any improvement? Did you also do what Patrick suggested? I think his solution will make a much bigger difference. I don't think the "check my spelling" has any affect on speed. I find it annoying to type a URL into the address bar while the machine makes siggestions as to what I really want. The software is not smarter than I am.

[melodie]

Hi,

Make sure sqlite-tools is installed in your system, then copy paste this command line into a console (as simple user):

Code: [Sélectionner]

find . -name ‘*sqlite*’ -exec sqlite3 {} ‘vacuum’ ;
This command line cleans the sqlite databases used by Firefox, which helps preventing slowness. (Bleachbit also uses this when optimize firefox option is selected).

PS: sqlite-tools and sqlite source packages are... slighly outdated at pclos.

http://www.sqlite.org/
Version 3.7.15.2 of SQLite is recommended for all new development. Upgrading from all other SQLite versions is recommended.

pclos version is 2.8.17 2009

[patrick013]

Ok I have rebooted and I am in Openbox Bonsai and FF 19.  I changed the settings and no difference.  Installed Cache Status, cleared the cache and no difference.

It seems like after FireFox 13 things started to get a lot slower for me.

Well if the disk cache is locked at zero, updates are off, search engines
and add-on updates off, it should work OK.

Try private browsing all the time, set it to default.

Copy .mozilla somewhere, delete it in /home/user, and copy it
back.    It could be fragmented.   

Turn all the add-ons off, especially compact menu !

Reinstall Firefox once, it's worth a try.

Wait 5 minutes and post back.

[konaexpress]

Well all this talk made me go download Firefox 19 to see what it was all about........kinda nice on this little netbook and it runs OK.

[konaexpress]

Wow, Firefox runs good on this little netbook. I stopped using it a few years back and use Safari on the Macs and now Chromium on Linux.

I'm going to have to go make a theme for it I think.......what shall I do?..............

[melodie]

find: missing argument to `-exec'

I was also missing something; Here this will work. This should return a list of files:

Code: [Sélectionner]

find . -name '*sqlite*' -exec ls -l {} \;
this should clean and compress what among the files found by the above command are databases:

Code: [Sélectionner]

find . -name '*sqlite*' -exec sqlite3 {} 'vacuum' \;
Firefox needs to be closed in order to use the two above command lines.

if you get lines of this "Error: file is encrypted or is not a database" just ignore them. If you get a line of this at the end of the lines of messages: "Error: database is locked" then check for an instance of Firefox running somewhere and close it.

[melodie]

Is the package sqlite-tools installed ?

[melodie]

It is probably too old.

Have you tried the standalone Google Chrome rpm for GNU/Linux ? (It is for Fedora, OpenSuse, but it might work directly in PCLOS).