Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:44:09AM +, s. keeling wrote: > This was mentioned by others recently (many thanks!): > >export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 So turning off i18n makes the program faster? I just tested, and this makes a very noticeable difference. > As for pure text, I like w3m. My fa

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-02 Thread s. keeling
BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On May 31, 4:00 pm, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, > > Not that slow. But it's definitely much slower than running Firefox on > XP. It's a shame. On the other hand it might inspire

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:40:03PM -, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > On May 31, 4:00 pm, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, > > Not that slow. But it's definitely much slower than running Firefox on > XP. It's a shame. On the ot

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-02 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On May 31, 4:00 pm, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, Not that slow. But it's definitely much slower than running Firefox on XP. It's a shame. On the other hand it might inspire me to try linx and others and see what text browsin

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:53:02PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > It isn't just tab closings that are the problem. Loading a page freezes the > program (all tabs) for up to one minute(!) until the load and rendering are > complete. > > Actually, I just uninstalled three plugins and everything seems to

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:18:26 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Fink writes: > > As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd > > miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. > > Try Privoxy for blocking ads. I use Privoxy, but

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:05:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/31/07 20:53, Carl Fink wrote: > >Actually, I just uninstalled three plugins and everything seems to be > >dramatically faster. I may have been right in my initial guess. > > Sooo, which three plugins? Media Pirate, the defunct

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 20:53, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:57:43AM +0200, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: I have about ~20 or so plug-ins installed, all running simultaneously without problems of any sort. Speed is good, and there's no latency in terms of closing down tabs, even when I have l

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:18:26PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Carl Fink writes: > > As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd > > miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. > > Try Privoxy for blocking ads. I used Privoxy for years, but hav

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread John Hasler
Carl Fink writes: > As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd > miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. Try Privoxy for blocking ads. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:57:43AM +0200, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: > I have about ~20 or so plug-ins installed, all running simultaneously > without problems of any sort. Speed is good, and there's no latency in > terms of closing down tabs, even when I have like ~30 active tabs with > mixed

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 19:46 -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > Iceweasel is really boring me. And many plugins that work on firefox, > don't work on it, and it crashs frequentally. > I tried diferent versions, but I'm just tired too... gonna look for > another option. I'm getting annoyed too by ice

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Ron Johnson wrote this at Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:05:06PM -0500 > On 05/31/07 15:53, Carl Fink wrote: > >Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 > >seconds to close a tab? I have about ~20 or so plug-ins installed, all running simultaneously without problems of any

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:53:01PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 > seconds to close a tab? Yes, it happens to me also -- unfortunately, because I have gotten used to having several tabs open, and I keep opening and closing tabs al

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 15:53, Carl Fink wrote: Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 seconds to close a tab? Or am I just using too many plugins? Current Testing version. I'm running Sid's 2.0.0.0.3, and before that v1.5.0.10-dfsg3 and tabs close just about instantaneo

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
Iceweasel is really boring me. And many plugins that work on firefox, don't work on it, and it crashs frequentally. I tried diferent versions, but I'm just tired too... gonna look for another option. On 5/31/07, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness

FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 seconds to close a tab? Or am I just using too many plugins? Current Testing version. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! S