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#26 2008-10-28 22:10:43

dsr
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I just tried it again, and although I didn't find the site to be very slow, top says the CPU usage went from 1% to 60%. yikes

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#27 2008-10-28 22:11:17

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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

as much as i love archlinux, and linux in general, and would never ever again consider an ms os or mac, in my 3 years of linux, i have learnt that web browsers in linux DONT work as well as in other os!

its the only problem i have ever come across in linux that i cant fix, and have now learnt to just grin and bear the problem!

i have herd every excuse for my browser not running correctly, and followed hundreds of fellow linux users advice on how to fix the issue, but nothing has ever brought my browser up 2 speed!

i dont run a high spec machine, in fact its quite the opposite, but other os on this machine other than linux would run much more efficiently with web browsers.

the best browsers i have found for speed and functionallity are;
swiftfox
a properly optimised version of firefox
opera

good luck guorke in finding a solution.


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#28 2008-10-28 22:55:49

zenos
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

yea that wasn't a pleasant experience. just for kicks you could try ie, firefox, chrome, safari, opera in wine.

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#29 2008-10-29 01:32:56

guorke
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

thank you very much.

maybe the best way is give up archlinux....

sad

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#30 2008-10-29 02:14:09

wirenik
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

Just for one website?


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#31 2008-10-29 02:21:34

guorke
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

My main language is not english.     for all non-english website.

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#32 2008-10-29 02:25:12

guorke
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I love archinux for it's easy to mantain,  config file is very clear and simple.it 's very hopeful.
but very slow webpage loading defeat me.

Last edited by guorke (2008-10-29 02:26:17)

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#33 2008-10-29 02:26:53

dsr
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

guorke, does the problem apply to all Chinese web sites or just that one?

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#34 2008-10-29 02:28:37

guorke
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

for all chinese website. 

and the speed of english website loading is acceptable.

Last edited by guorke (2008-10-29 02:33:11)

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#35 2008-10-29 15:28:47

guorke
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I tested again.
this time all page is slowly.
traceroute bbs.archlinux.org
traceroute to archlinux.org (66.211.213.17), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  60.168.80.1 (60.168.80.1)  1.175 ms  0.714 ms  0.784 ms
2  65.228.190.61.broad.static.hf.ah.cndata.com (61.190.228.65)  1.039 ms  0.917 ms  0.688 ms
3  61.190.195.117 (61.190.195.117)  0.972 ms  1.655 ms  1.831 ms
4  118.84.1.9 (118.84.1.9)  2.541 ms  0.907 ms  1.068 ms
5  202.97.39.189 (202.97.39.189)  8.829 ms  11.398 ms  9.941 ms
6  202.97.33.238 (202.97.33.238)  176.356 ms  52.971 ms  18.689 ms
7  202.97.51.182 (202.97.51.182)  196.315 ms  193.350 ms  193.084 ms
8  218.30.54.150 (218.30.54.150)  193.470 ms  183.880 ms  234.025 ms
9  core01-ge-3-0.eri.velocity.net (64.214.147.30)  259.916 ms  263.999 ms  276.019 ms
10  cust02-ge-0-0.eri.velocity.net (66.211.250.2)  259.225 ms  259.041 ms  258.707 ms
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *


---
traceroute www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.189.99
traceroute to www-china.l.google.com (64.233.189.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  60.168.80.1 (60.168.80.1)  4.505 ms  2.442 ms  1.627 ms
2  65.228.190.61.broad.static.hf.ah.cndata.com (61.190.228.65)  1.264 ms  1.082 ms  0.910 ms
3  61.190.194.117 (61.190.194.117)  0.748 ms  0.578 ms  1.101 ms
4  118.84.1.5 (118.84.1.5)  2.617 ms  3.249 ms  3.839 ms
5  202.97.18.225 (202.97.18.225)  4.272 ms  4.441 ms  3.592 ms
6  202.97.39.173 (202.97.39.173)  10.417 ms  11.910 ms  10.459 ms
7  202.97.33.238 (202.97.33.238)  11.235 ms  11.138 ms  11.334 ms
8  202.97.33.50 (202.97.33.50)  11.787 ms  10.866 ms  11.402 ms
9  202.97.61.50 (202.97.61.50)  40.513 ms  38.437 ms  38.763 ms
10  202.97.62.214 (202.97.62.214)  37.252 ms  37.241 ms  37.301 ms
11  209.85.241.56 (209.85.241.56)  52.856 ms  37.306 ms  81.614 ms
12  66.249.94.34 (66.249.94.34)  51.072 ms 66.249.94.6 (66.249.94.6)  47.706 ms 66.249.94.34 (66.249.94.34)  50.667 ms
13  hk-in-f99.google.com (64.233.189.99)  38.888 ms  38.759 ms  38.967 ms

Last edited by guorke (2008-10-29 15:33:00)

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#36 2008-10-29 15:53:31

guorke
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

Ah.
I reinstall archlinux and opera.  now the speed is faster. 
so maybe question is firefox or xorg config.

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#37 2008-10-29 21:10:47

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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I don't know... could it be you don't have TTF fonts for Chinese characters on your Arch Install?


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#38 2008-10-30 04:51:37

guorke
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I don't install the TTF fonts , but firefox can display these chinese webpage.  and opera worked better than firefox , gnome web browse.

I remeber  that the nvidia driver can't work better with firefox. maybe it's true.

Last edited by guorke (2008-10-30 05:03:34)

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#39 2008-10-30 21:18:33

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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

have u tried the Midori web-browser?

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#40 2008-11-01 11:26:35

andre.ramaciotti
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

guorke wrote:

I don't install the TTF fonts , but firefox can display these chinese webpage.  and opera worked better than firefox , gnome web browse.

I remeber  that the nvidia driver can't work better with firefox. maybe it's true.

I know you don't need to install TTF fonts to see Chinese characters, but maybe firefox handles bitmap fonts slower than TTF ones. Just a guess, though.


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#41 2009-03-28 23:00:09

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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

i get this problem with every site that intensively uses flash.

for example this one: www.bug.hr works slower than some other 'normal' sites, and it's bearable.
but, if i open that same site in like another 4 or 5 tabs, the whole firefox would just get too slow. i get this problem on 2 of my computers which both have pretty good hardware and this shouldn't be happening i guess


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#42 2009-03-29 02:46:52

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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I have to say that many Chinese pages are very slow on my Arch32 (and they were also very slow when I was still using windows). They would make (and still do make) firefox crawl to a halt. I have flashblock and it is stopping all flash stuff so its not due to flash eating all the resources ..... I always found this strange but it was never a big concern to me because mostly I see english pages.
Maybe if there is someone experienced in web design that can take a quick look at the site code and check if there is anything that looks like the probable cause of the problem ....
Another funny thing is that at least some versions of firefox must work well, otherwise I guess it would be a no go for Chinese users, did you try a localized version? Maybe there is something slightly different that makes it work better.

Edit:
Localized versions don't seem to be any faster than the version on the repo .... my only guess is that maybe some font is missing and it may be slowing down firefox although that seems quite unlikely. Another possibility is an upstream bug .... trying a livecd from other distros might help (or not) to figure this out ... if it works well in another distro then maybe some extra patch was applied to correct this problem.

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-03-29 03:00:02)


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#43 2009-03-29 05:08:15

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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I have noscript installed in firefox, so all kinds of scripts and flash and so forth are disabled by default, so that's apparently not it. The site brought my 5% cpu firefox to 50% too. I am using firefox-pgo 3.0.7 from aur.

I ran the site in Konqueror kde4 and it worked without any problems or cpu spiking beyond the initial page loading, as far as I can tell. It also scrolls pretty much normal as far as I can tell. Odd..

Guorke, perhaps run the webpage in konqueror and see if you have similar results?

Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-03-29 05:10:31)

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#44 2009-03-29 05:45:57

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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

geebus that website is SLOW, or extremely resource-intensive.

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#45 2009-05-24 14:48:06

arch777
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

I had this problem before when I read Chinese websites, and I've it fixed.

The solution is to install these font packages:

ttf-arphic-uming
ttf-arphic-ukai
ttf-fireflysung

Once you have above installed, you will find FF load up Chinese, Japanese and Korean web sites as fast as loading English websites.  AND display them correctly.

Hope this help.

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#46 2009-05-25 14:42:34

R00KIE
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

arch777 wrote:

I had this problem before when I read Chinese websites, and I've it fixed.

The solution is to install these font packages:

ttf-arphic-uming
ttf-arphic-ukai
ttf-fireflysung

Once you have above installed, you will find FF load up Chinese, Japanese and Korean web sites as fast as loading English websites.  AND display them correctly.

Hope this help.

I've tested this and it seems to work, www.sohu.com now works as fast as any page written in English, I've asked a friend for some links to other pages written in Chinese (which I knew to be slow) and all is working well now.

Thanks for the tip smile.


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#47 2011-03-08 02:47:43

avidal
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Re: firefox very slow and high cpu usage!! (all other browse slow too)

i wouldn't stop using archlinux even if i had to use lynx only, chromium is pretty fast but the bad thing is that it comes from google. Firefox became a hog on all platforms specially if you mix it with flash.

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