2006/11/30, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Today Clodoaldo did spake thusly: > 2006/11/30, taharka <res00vl8@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> How do, >> >> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:28 -0200, Clodoaldo wrote: >> > 2006/11/30, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > > Okay, I've had this problem for a while and I'm beginning >> > > to wonder why. >> > > >> > > Firefox sometimes responds very slowly, especially when >> > > rendering Wikipedia and a few other pages (mostly wikis >> > > actually). I don't mean connecting to the internet, I mean >> > > responding to the user; e.g. I run a mouse gestures >> > > extension which can become unusable with a couple >> > > of Wikipedia tabs open. Booting the same machine into >> > > Windows Me and running Firefox I don't have this problem. >> > > System is FC5, Athlon 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce 3 Ti200 >> > > with Nvidia drivers. >> > > >> > > So: >> > > Does anyone else have this problem? >> > >> > I have. Any site javascript intensive makes FF consume 100% CPU for a >> > few seconds at each click. Gmail is one of them. >> >> So, how bout installing the noscript extension & enabling javascript for >> sites where it is absolutely necessary? >> > > You are a genius. What a wonderful solution. I each site i just go to > Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Enable JavaScript. And them wait for > each click or page scroll. I have a better one: Why not just use Opera > in instead of FF? This one is much better: If you have nothing worth > to say why don't you just shut up? Or, alternatively, why don't you bite the hand that helps you? https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/
Could you elaborate on how that fixes FF slowness on javaScript sites? To make it clear: I need Gmail *with* javaScript enabled. Blocking javaScript is not a solution when javaScript is necessary or just nice to have. -- Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
