Not Responding

[tracey158]

My firefox web page has a problem with Not Responding a lot and it is driving me mad, please help.

Tracey

[deav]

I am having the same issue. Seems sometimes on these forums people just don"t respond, can we be the only two with this issue? When I first fire up all is well but very soon after I will click to do something and it is like 5-6 seconds before anything at all responds. Ready to attempt finding another browser. Have loved Firefox up to now. I have created another profile to no avail. Anyone out there that can help!

[tracey158]

Hi could it be that it is only you and me that have this problem, you would think a Firefox tec person would reply to use. still driving me mad, thinking changing browser too but to who?

[deav]

I have switched to Avant browser (found it through Kim Kommando site) and it sees to be working well. fast. May try firefox again but not for awhile. Good Luck

[GirishMony]

Have you tried opening Firefox in safe mode?

[TomLiotta]

That is my only significant problem with FF (3.5.x, 3.5.7 in this session). I run on at least five different PCs and all show the problem. No addons except Java Quick-Start on one PC; no fancy addons anywhere. Status goes to "Waiting for xxx...", "Transferring data from xxx..." or "Read xxx..." and then sits there until I click Stop or Refresh (or Close) out of frustration.

Often, Refresh goes through page elements fine and renders reasonably well. If not, and I choose Stop, I can often copy the address into a new tab and the page opens fine.

It is as if something in WAIT() state or timeout code has no exit. It gets into the routine and has no exit. Even leaving it overnight makes no difference.

But Refresh can bring the same page right up.

Minor added note -- it happened while trying to post this reply.

[tooncesmom]

I also have this same problem plus timeouts almost every time I browse. If I return to IE8 this never happens. I love--or at least loved--Firefox in the beginning but am now extremely frustrated with the performance. The slowdown began after I was automatically upgraded to 3.6.

[TomLiotta]

I run AVG, and the best advice I've run across is to completely disable the Link-Scanner component. I'd assume that other A-V and firewall products might add delays as well. It doesn't make a huge difference, but it's at least noticeably better. It makes a little sense. Too bad it's so far from a complete answer.

[fastmover]

[quote=TomLiotta;4496]I run AVG, and the best advice I've run across is to completely disable the Link-Scanner component. I'd assume that other A-V and firewall products might add delays as well. It doesn't make a huge difference, but it's at least noticeably better. It makes a little sense. Too bad it's so far from a complete answer.[/quote


Give that man a cigar
the problem is AVG Link scanner disable it and problem gone

[TomLiotta]

Originally Posted by fastmover

Give that man a cigar
the problem is AVG Link scanner disable it and problem gone

Hmmm... apparently I need to be more clear.

Originally Posted by TomLiotta

Too bad it's so far from a complete answer.

That means that it had only a minimal effect. And by that I mean that I had fully disabled it before posting my comment. It helped some, but not much. Perhaps it made a 10% difference -- enough to notice, but far from satisfactory.

Is that clear enough?

But beyond that, I found a change that made a far greater difference.

I went into Control Panel-> System to change Performance Options. I doubled my minimum paging file size (as well as doubling the maximum.) The Windows recommended value was far too small. It seems that doubling the minimum size allocates, and reserves, initial space that is extremely useful to FF.

Four of my PCs so far, and four very improved response times. FF now seems only maybe 10% slower. Two of the PCs never had AVG installed at all, so I'm near certain Link Scanner wasn't involved to a huge degree, though it made a noticeable (yet minor) difference.