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    Firefox slow pages loadtime in Leopard

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by lanwarrior, Nov 13, 2008.

  1. lanwarrior

    lanwarrior Notebook Evangelist

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    I am experiencing really slow load page time intermittently in Firefox and I am wondering if anyone know how to fix this.

    I have tested the same webpages on Safari and Firefox in Windows XP and they load just fine, ONLY Firefox in Leopard.

    Any suggestions?
     
    lanwarrior, Nov 13, 2008
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  2. StrongerThanAll

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    i am having the same issue, sometimes pages wont even load.. it will just show the boxes and etc..

    so i have to close firefox and reopen it
     
    StrongerThanAll, Nov 13, 2008
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  3. qhn

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    ^^ what version of Firefox are you using? Try playing with the Minefield version 3.1bpre? Could you share the web sites for testing out?

    I experience no performance issue with the current Minefield on my mb

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Nov 13, 2008
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  4. gms238

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    I've had no problem with Firefox and Leopard. Running a MBP, 2.16mhz with 4 gigs of ram. 35 gigs free on hd - firefox bounces right along. I will say Safari opens faster, but I used FF in the Windows day and just migrated it over when I made the switch (oh, glorious day!)
     
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    I use FF exclusively and also experience intermittent slow loading issues on my MBP. For me, it's spotty. I find that simply closing and re-opening FF fix's the problem.
     
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  6. lanwarrior

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    I am using the latest version as of today. I tried going to any website:

    - Google
    - Notebook Forum
    - CNN
    - Yahoo

    I didn't even try going to bandwidth intensive site like Flash or anything like that.

    The issue is that it seems that FF have some DNS / page rendering problem that causes the lag. After about 1-2 minutes (yep, that long), the page will show up.

    Ditto with downloads. I tried to download some file, and halfway the download will hang before it starts again after 2 minutes.

    I Googled Firefox slow page load time and it seems that it's a known problem.

    Again, everything is A-OK with Safari (OSX) and IE/FF (Windows XP) going to the same pages.
     
    lanwarrior, Nov 13, 2008
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  7. lanwarrior

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    Unfortunately, I often have 2-3 Windows open with 2-3 tabs each. The fix doesn't work by closing an individual tab or Windows. I have to close Firefox completely...
     
    lanwarrior, Nov 13, 2008
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    Go to about:config in Firefox and change network.dns.disableIPv6 to true. Solved. At least for me.

    Of course, don't do this if you're actually using IPV6
     
    Mobilehavoc, Nov 13, 2008
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    How do you know if you're using IPv6? :confused:
     
    unnamed01, Nov 14, 2008
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  10. lanwarrior

    lanwarrior Notebook Evangelist

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    All,

    I think the issues really in the way Firefox being implemented.. or maybe OS X itself in handling HTTP request.

    I just did another test: I went to Hulu (online TV/Movies streaming) that use Flash and the movie just stutter really bad. I turn to my Windows XP PC and everything went well. Both MBP and WinXP machines are connected to the same network. I tested the MBP Internet connection (regular browsing) and TV viewing (via Hulu) against 3 other laptops running WinXP and Vista and ONLY the MBP ones stutter, to the point browsing is just unpleasant.

    Here's the funny thing: running VMWare Fusion on the MBP, I can run FF in that virtual machine and NO WEB ISSUES at all.

    I think it would suffice to say that FF and Flash broke in OSX.
     
    lanwarrior, Nov 14, 2008
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  11. lanwarrior

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    Go to System Preference -> Network -> [select your network device] -> Advanced -> TCP/IP.

    If IPv6 is off, you'll see that it says "OFF"
     
    lanwarrior, Nov 14, 2008
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    I only have this problem when it's been open for awhile or using tabs.
     
    passive101, Nov 14, 2008
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    I find the Internet in general to just be slow on Macs. It's frustrating actually. Using both my new MacBook Pros and my Mac Mini and my buddy's MacBook white version, the Internet is just slow. No problems on my older Thinkpads running Windows XP.

    Can't figure it out...
     
    WilliamG, Nov 14, 2008
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  14. mmoy

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    There are some areas of Firefox where the graphics layer is slower on OSX than on Windows. I recall some efforts at fixing or improving this near the end of the 3.0 development cycle.

    I find that Flash is very robust on Firefox and Mac OSX. Performance should improve in 3.1 due to the addition of the Nanojit engine.

    I was able to view Hulu videos on my MacBook Pro on Mac OSX but I'm using my own custom build. My guess is that the official build will run as well as my own.

    I would suggest filing a bug or opening a support thread at mozillazine.org.

    Perhaps you could enter a bug on this at
     
    mmoy, Nov 14, 2008
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    i had no problems viewing videos on hulu, but still have the occasional slowdown, where all the pictures in the page seem to be a broken link
     
    StrongerThanAll, Nov 14, 2008
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