Firefox is so slow

Tue Apr 30 23:59:40 UTC 2013

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:08:55 -0500
"Edwin L. Culp W." <edwinlculp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your comment.  I agree that firefox is intermittently slow
> or stop.  Which do you use?  I tend to use chromium although I still
> will probably go back to firefox unless chrome becomes a bit more
> firefox like.
> 
> thanks
> ed

Just barging in the thread to post my numbers.

FBSD 8.3 AMD64 - 16G RAM - Phenom II 975 quad - SATA II disks

NVIDA 9800 GT

KDE 4.8.4 / Qt 4.8.2

Firefox ESR 17.0.2 with:

Addons: 

BYTubeD
DoNotTrackMe
DownloadHelper
FlashBlock
HTTPSEverywhere
NoScript
Noia4 Theme

Plugins:

Default Pligin
Helix RealPlayer
IcedTea-Web
Flash 11.2 r202

Time to load: 4 seconds

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