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07-01-2009	#1 (permalink)
Criticalmass Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2	Speed up firefox? is there anyway i can speed up firefox. i am running ubuntu on a acer one aspire and it seems to be pretty choppy when i scroll down the pages. i mean i dont think it should be this laptop can play world of warcraft.

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Rubberman Linux Guru Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: I can be found either 40 miles west of Chicago, or in a galaxy far, far away. Posts: 2,662	Please provide the following information: 1. How fast the CPU 2. How much RAM installed 3. What is the graphics chip set installed 4. Which version of ubuntu. You can speed up the loading of firefox considerably by installing the prelink package. The scrolling speed is more likely affected by the rendering speed of the graphics driver, and the amount of RAM available. __________________ Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.

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L4Linux Content Team Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greece Posts: 579	Check this out. It claims that it can fix an up to 45% slowdown!! __________________ folding@home HELP RESEARCH AGAINST CANCER. It is very easy and won't cost you anything.

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Originally Posted by L4Linux

Check this out. It claims that it can fix an up to 45% slowdown!!

Briefly, it says to add this to your ~/.bash_profile

Code:

export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

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rituraj.goswami Linux Newbie Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Guwahati Posts: 111	doa google search buddy........ __________________ There is nothing impossible, for everything is possible; the impossible only takes a bit longer than the possible.

07-05-2009	#6 (permalink)
jmadero Linux Engineer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: California Posts: 1,454	for some I know that they've seen huge performance boost from using swiftfox Swiftfox __________________ Ubuntu 9.10 the Koala of all Koalas Dell Studio 17, Intel Graphics card, 4 gigs of RAM, KDE & GDM "The beauty in life can only be found by moving past the materialism which defines human nature and into the higher realm of thought and knowledge"

07-05-2009	#7 (permalink)
L4Linux Content Team Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Greece Posts: 579	I installed swiftfox, first using the deb package, then the install script. When I try to run it firefox pops up!! I run it as root then and it started. But running a browser as root, is A SECURITY NIGHTMARE. It is as safe as using IE as administrator in windows I hope they fix this retarded bug, because I would like to use something faster in my Aspire One, with Easy Peasy installed. __________________ folding@home HELP RESEARCH AGAINST CANCER. It is very easy and won't cost you anything. Last edited by L4Linux; 07-05-2009 at 12:35 PM..

07-05-2009

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ozar

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Quote:

is there anyway i can speed up firefox.

The newly released Firefox 3.5 claims to be more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, but I can't tell that it really is. Still, it might be worth trying.

I'm wondering if some plugin might be causing the current choppiness issue?

You could try closing Firefox, then renaming your hidden .mozilla folder, and then restarting Firefox to let the configuration files/folders rebuild themselves to see if the choppiness goes away.. If it does, start installing any plugins or add-ons one by one to see if the choppiness returns. If starting over like this fails to fix the problem, delete the new .mozilla folder and change the .mozilla_OLD folder back to .mozilla, and you are no worse off than you were.

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