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Firefox slowdown
The last few days I noticed a massive slowdown of Firefox 3.0b5 on Ubuntu Hardy. I even started using Opera, since I thought it might be bigger problem.
As it turns out, my history kept data from the last 90 days. Combined with Firefox' new history search feature, it was nearly impossible to use the browser at all. I'm unsure whether I did change this value, or if it's a default setting for Firefox on Ubuntu. Fortunately, this issue is really easy to solve.
While searching for the reason of this behavior, I found a really good entry in Mozilla's knowledgebase. If you experience similar slowdowns, just have a look at this page.
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This is a great tip. I've
This is a great tip. I've been noticing a slowdown lately too, and this cleared it all up for me. Thanks!
Thanks for the tip. History
Thanks for the tip. History kept for 90 days is a default value, as far as I know. Just started using 3.0b5, two days ago..
Thank you for this hint. Now
Thank you for this hint. Now I can finally browse in peace. :)
This behavior caused me to ditch Ubuntu Hardy last Friday and install Debian testing, then Sidux, then PCLinuxOS ... yesterday I returned to Hardy. There are just some things you can't beat.
Besides, I use FF3 since the early Betas on my Windows machine at work and have never experienced such a problem. Though this could be related to RAM being 1GB at work and only 512MB at home. I guess I'll have to investigate this but now I at least know where to start.
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