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#280: Faster Firefox
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Written by dark the 29 Feb 08 at 00:13.
Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
The default Firefox ships with defaults that aren't exactly ideal for speed. If Ubuntu would default to slightly improved defaults (Pipelining enabled for example) it would speed it up and make it more ideal.
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dburanen wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 01:18
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Pipelining can cause problems in some cases. Furthermore, FF 3, which is already in hardy, should address most people's speed concerns.
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meticulo wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 03:47
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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sage wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 04:40
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swiftweasel with auto detection of correct cpu, or fallback to iceweasel if cpu unidentified
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mephcpp wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:31
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It's a firefox problem not Ubuntu's
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smenjas wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:45
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What mephcpp said.
Perhaps you should take a look at Firefox 3. It's quite fast.
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cojones wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 09:55
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FF3B3 is really fast, apparently B4 will be even faster in terms of javascript execution.
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dendron wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 13:02
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I think, that MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable should be set/unset depending on installed locales. With pango support firefox runs much slower.
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Dark Seraphim wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:50
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I agree with dburanen its off for a reason. and the new version of firefox is supposed to be faster and less resource hungry.
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berlinbrown wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:56
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Look at that, I didn't see the firefox post. I posted one just now.
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dark wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:20
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I have checked out Firefox 3 and yes it is much faster. So I guess this could be a null point.... And swiftweasel is great but its O3 optimization so its not portable between CPU archs.
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adelie wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:10
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one more egg in the basket, *poof* done. May I present FF3
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yumrukcu wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 13:47
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also a better flash support
in xp firefox not freeze even i open 20 tabs of youtube
but in ubuntu 3-4 tabs is enough to freeze
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Calabacin wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 13:29
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A firefox problem IMO, and besides, FF3 is supposedly much faster.
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mawx wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 14:36
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epiphany is a good and fast gnome integrated firefox replacement for slower systems. install it by default so people don't get confused by epiphany (the game) vs. epiphany-browser packages.
People don't seem to want it as THE default but imho it should be installed anyway.
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tbrminsanity wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 02:09
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I know there is a security risk to doing this but you could mimic how IE integrates itself with the OS. A patch that would allow Firefox to directly grab system resources and thus speed up Firefox.
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janozaurus wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 00:02
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epiphany is pretty fast.
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mircea.postolache wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 08:19
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There is also Swiftfox. They have a repository and .deb files. The browser is tailored to specific processors (which makes it faster) and comes with all speed knobs turned on.
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fredbezies wrote on the 19 Apr 08 at 13:46
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swiftfox use harder optimization flags to build firefox source code.
Epiphany and Firefox - at least on Hardy - share the same rendering engine : gecko 1.9, in its beta5 version.
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drinkypoo wrote on the 9 May 08 at 02:48
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hot-rodding firefox will bone modem users. optimization is one thing, but leave the config alone.
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amdlintuxos wrote on the 24 Jun 08 at 15:08
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epiphany with gecko 1.9 engeene (the same in FF3)is faster than FF3. If there would be compatibility with FF plugin i would put FF in recycle bin :D
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Auzy wrote on the 25 Jun 08 at 01:01
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This idea should be closed.. FF3 technically completes it, and the race isn't over yet.
They've made it faster, so FF3 fulfills it..
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