Firefox is so slow

[Mario Lobo]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:01:39 -0300
Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:08:55 -0500
> "Edwin L. Culp W." <edwinlculp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your comment.  I agree that firefox is intermittently
> > slow or stop.  Which do you use?  I tend to use chromium although I
> > still will probably go back to firefox unless chrome becomes a bit
> > more firefox like.
> > 
> > thanks
> > ed
> 
> Just barging in the thread to post my numbers.
> 
> FBSD 8.3 AMD64 - 16G RAM - Phenom II 975 quad - SATA II disks
> 
> NVIDA 9800 GT
> 
> KDE 4.8.4 / Qt 4.8.2
> 
> Firefox ESR 17.0.2 with:
> 
> Addons: 
> 
> BYTubeD
> DoNotTrackMe
> DownloadHelper
> FlashBlock
> HTTPSEverywhere
> NoScript
> Noia4 Theme
> 
> Plugins:
> 
> Default Pligin
> Helix RealPlayer
> IcedTea-Web
> Flash 11.2 r202
> 
> Time to load: 4 seconds
> 

2 things I forgot to mention

- I have 47 TABs opened 
- If I close it and open it again, it only takes 2 seconds to load.

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Mario Lobo
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