Why is Firefox so choppy?

G'day,
I've noticed that since installing my graphics driver, Firefox is really slow and choppy, scrolling down the page is a headeache, and watching Youtube videos, well, I can throw that idea out the window, any ideas? I'm using Opera now, and it's better, but still get's choppy

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

probably the graphics driver is not installed properly..

try driver cleaner PE
and then install the drivers again...

 

I've just read around that this is a normal thing for Firefox 3.6. Hmm, wierd :s

 

Mine seems to be slow/choppy sometimes on websites, but the majority on Youtube.

Like if I am browsing someones page, when I try to scroll down, it will be very laggy.

 

Your 1gb of RAM isnt cutting it.

 

Yeah, Now I'm off Youtube, it seem's to be fine.

 

What? Watching Youtube videos? I could watch Youtube Videos + use photo shop + internet surf + type word doco's on an old Toshiba Portege 4010 with 256mb ram... And, How come I could do Youtube video's fine before with no problems...

 

For me, 3.6 has been faster at loading webpages, but slower at starting up...sometimes it just doesn't start up. I then have to go to task manager and shut down the FireFox process. Seems like Mozilla hasn't been able to solve this problem 100% since I first began using it.

 

FF 3.6 is choppy at start up when viewing a web page with flash content in my Vaio FZ with 4 GB RAM, Nvidia 8400M GT, and C2D T7100. Scrolling, typing all come to a crawl. But this issue is not there in the desktop at my work, weird.

 

hmm firefox has been known to be a memory hog. Check your task manger when playing a youtube video

 

Just having FF open is using ~130 000k. When on YouTube, it goes up to about 160.

 

Is your flash player up to date?

 

Yep, im pretty sure - just to be on the safe side, I'll run another update.

It seem's to be pretty good atm after I upgraded Flash... Hmmm.

 

Try disabling all your FF add-ons(Not the plugins), Then see what happens.

 

If you have Tab Mix Plus add on installed, I bet $10 bucks on that. Uninstall/disable it, then restart FF. I had the same exact problem (especially with YouTUbe as well)
RM

 

Also, what os are you running? I'm hoping XP...

 

Try toggling the hardware acceleration setting on Adobe Flash. In cases where there are problems I think it should turned off.

 

For me, Firefox gets choppy when I open around 40 tabs + Youtube. Then it takes some 700-1000MB of RAM.

 

For me it doesn't get so much as sluggish as crash unexpectedly. I think it's due to Flash content but have disabled a few add-ons to be sure.

You should try disabling some add-ons if you have any and see if it makes a difference, OP.

 

Firefox is known to have memory leak issues. Having lots of plug-ins and add-ons only compounds the issue.

I would make sure all plug-ins and add-ons are updated, as well as the browser itself.

 

I have this same problem. I have 2GB RAM right now (But this happens on my 3GB Laptop as well). I do not run very many addons either (1 or 2). Youtube is especially bad. I've tried the acceleration settings, no luck.

 

General browser performance troubleshooting (in roughly this order):

third-party addons and plugins
video driver
java and media plugins
system ram
system virtual memory (pagefile)
network congestion
network card and drivers

Oh, and having a program that seems to grab a pile of real and virtual memory does not mean it has leaks or is a hog. Unless you use a known-good monitoring program to monitor and trend memory use, there is no way a user can look at task manager, read one number, and rant about memory usage.

In particular, web browsers that are used to playback streaming media are at the mercy of not only their plugins/addons, but the composition of the media being streamed and the setting exchanged with the web site doing the streaming.

The main problem with Firefox is that it has become so damned dependent on third-party plugins and addons for some very basic capabilities. Browsers like Opera (and Safari but NOT Chrome) that have advanced capabilities built into the source and binary code (executable) don't have the interface and user-experience problems (choppy/uneven performance) that Firefox does.

 

I have tons of addons and never have a problem with YouTube or any other websites.

And I have plenty of memory so I never worry about memory leaks, but I guess it would be a pain for those that don't have much.

 

i prefer Opera. it is more comfortable when you open many pages

download Sum 41 single

 

Yeah, but I have been using FF for years now, and have got used to it. I tried using Opera but, just didn't tickle my fancy.

 

You might consider Chrome... I find is is the fastest and smoothest thusfar of the 3....

 

I just switched from Firefox (Namoroka with SSE2 enhancements) 3.6 to Opera 10.50. I'll never look back.

Opera performs 1.5x as fast as Chrome at the sunspider benchmark on my machine.

 

What's the availability of Opera plugsin. I am interested in things like forecastfox, adblock, and noscript.

 

you could try this extension it had helped me and others https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi...pid=1&lver=3.6&atype=0&pp=20&pid=5&sort=&lup=
and firefox should never be choppy unless something added to it is not behaving or if you don't have enough memory as 1GB is just barely cutting it i would go 2GB min and flash can behave badly so remove it then use the flash uninstaller then reinstall latest flash but make sure you got the full installer and tabberwocky is a good extension to have.