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DeepThoughts

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From: Norther part of Sweden (Piteå)

Registered: 2006-04-11

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Firefox/Flock/Swiftfox bottleneck?

I no longer use Firefox because of one thing... Every time I download a file it's like hitting a wall. The entire program seems to hang up until the download starts and the bigger the file, the bigger the wait.

I've tried the Firefox-derivate Flock and it suffers from the exact same thing. Upon learning about Swiftfox inte thread about Debians rebranding of FF and the fact there's PKGBUILDs in AUR I decided to try that. Since I haven't clocked anything I can't prove the times but it felt like I didn't have to wait as long with Swiftfox but I did have to wait.

Is this normal behaviour? If i recall correct this doesn't happen when running as root. Could there be anything in my setup causing this? What I find mighty strange is that Epiphany doesn't suffer from this at all. No lockups and the downloads starts almost instantly.

Although Epiphany is a great browser I miss some of the extensions to Firefox, mostly the Gmail integration.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Firefox/Flock/Swiftfox bottleneck?

Haven't seen it. I do notice, though, that if I try to download something, cancel it, then try again, it usually won't even start up again for five minutes or so. That's in Galeon though.

_adam_

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From: Dora, Alabama

Registered: 2006-05-18

Posts: 94

Re: Firefox/Flock/Swiftfox bottleneck?

if you haven't hit the "clean up" button on the download window in a long time, do it. i remember back on windows that lockup would happen and that turned out to be the problem. i probably had around 3000 finished downloads in there and i guess it loads the list every time. after hitting the clean up button everything was fine.

if that doesnt work, go through your extensions, disabling them one at a time and see if one of them is causing it.