J3FF3R00 Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Has anyone else been having serious issues with Firefox lately? I'm updated to the most recent version and it starts up SUPER slow. Whenever I'm in a thread with a lot of youtube clips (unfortunately, some of my favorites... like the jungle threads) the shit just won't comply. It makes me feel like I'm back in the 90s. I think the issues began 2 updates ago. I also regularly empty my browser cache and it only really helps for the first usage afterward. Wtf? Amirite? I can't take it anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosmina Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 yeah with chrome too (or either my computer is shit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spratters Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Haven't noticed anything with Chrome. I'll give FF a go for a while and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Keep in mind it's not just you computer that affects load times on YouTube videos - each one is a connection to YT that depending on the traffic to your machine to YT and back, and what server the video(s) are hosted on, can slow things down considerably even on the fastest PC with the fastest connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted May 14, 2012 Author Share Posted May 14, 2012 I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF. I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF. I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time. Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 firefox. there's your problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 i will leave this here, just in case http://forum.watmm.com/topic/71768-design-suggestion-different-way-of-embedding-youtube-videos-in-posts/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 yea had this problem here too until i started chroming (mac) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 It's a long shot, but it could be youtube. Search HTML5 trial and how to leave it. I was having problems with horrible youtube playback on Safari. I did say it was a long shot, right? Allow me to repeat: loooong......shot. kthkxbye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Delete flash, and be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roasty Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 yea was running pretty shittily in safari too here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Hmmm... forgot to mention that leaving the html5 trial (for which i did not subscribe!) solved my youtube problems. It was implied, but I suck at words. My bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted May 14, 2012 Author Share Posted May 14, 2012 Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT... Sorry. I didn't get a chance to read it the first time because I was typing and didn't read your post until after mine had posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psn Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uptown devil Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 sounds like you need to switch to Internet Explorer 6. -DJ hardcode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF. I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time. Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT... Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF. I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time. Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT... Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos) indeed, slow connections to YouTube should not make a browser crawl when scrolling up and down the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 sounds like you need to switch to Internet Explorer 6. -DJ hardcode lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hma Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I had a similar situation with opera, youtube thread wasn`t crushing it but slowed down considerably...turned out it was adblock extension, disabled it and now everything is cool. So maybe its some FF addon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF. I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time. Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT... Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos) indeed, slow connections to YouTube should not make a browser crawl when scrolling up and down the page. No, in that case it is the Flash player(s) taxing the CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF. I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time. Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT... Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos) indeed, slow connections to YouTube should not make a browser crawl when scrolling up and down the page. No, in that case it is the Flash player(s) taxing the CPU. but it never used to do this on WATMM until fairly recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hautlle Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 You could install FlashBlock and load the videos individually/decide if you even want to load them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iep Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 You could install FlashBlock and load the videos individually/decide if you even want to load them? Nice! i usually have 50-150 tabs open at any given time in my Firefox (TreeStyle) and the only problem I have is opening pages with loads of embedded flash applets. RAM-spikes FTL. will try FlashBlock.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nene multiple assgasms Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 you could try creating a new profile in firefox and see if that makes a difference. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles the current beta version has a reset feature that starts a new profile and automatically imports your info. https://blog.mozilla.org/verdi/166/the-new-reset-firefox-feature-is-like-magic/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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