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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. ...
- 07-01-2009 #1Just Joined!
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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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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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Check this out. It claims that it can fix an up to 45% slowdown!!
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Briefly, it says to add this to your ~/.bash_profile
Originally Posted by L4Linux 
Check this out. It claims that it can fix an up to 45% slowdown!!
Code:export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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doa google search buddy........
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for some I know that they've seen huge performance boost from using swiftfox
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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.Last edited by L4Linux; 07-05-2009 at 12:35 PM.
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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.is there anyway i can speed up firefox.
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.oz
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