Firefox is much slower than Chrome
Your system rejected my first message and I am typing this one in Leafpad. Pressing the back button (in Firefox, of course) left me without my original message. Needless to say, I'm not very happy at the moment.
The Firefox web browser is running much more slowly than Google Chrome on my system. This is true even when plug-ins are disabled--I only have the most recent versions of Java and Flash. Firefox operates consistently, but very slowly all the time. It does not matter how many tabs I have open: the overall response is the same whether its two tabs or eight (or more). Google Chrome operates as one would expect while Firefox is incredibly slow by comparison. This is true even when Firefox is running with a default configuration and without active plug-ins.
My system specs are as follows: -- AMD 64 3800+ -- 4GB RAM -- nVidia Quadro FX 3000 256MB -- Fedora 20 64-bit running Xfce
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There is no comparion beween firefox and chrome. problem occurs in both. It may be, at the time when you post your reply about comparison , there was some problem occurs in firefox and we are here to solve that. thanks.
I assure you that Chrome is outperforming Firefox on my current system. By a lot. It is absolutely impossible that anyone would not notice. Opening a new tab takes more than a second.
In case it matters, Firefox is my browser of choice. If this were not true, I would not have bothered to make the original submission and would have switched over to Chrome a while ago.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problem.
See "Creating a profile":
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over problems.
Well, rebuilding the profile helped. I'm not sure what could have caused this corruption as it was pretty much a vanilla profile (nothing extra was installed and only Java and Flash were loaded). Firefox is still sluggish, and Chrome is performing markedly better, but the response time is manageable, unlike before.
I do think that there is some other issue going on here. Firefox should be on par with Chrome, performance-wise.
OK... it's been less than a day of very modest web browsing using the new profile and things are bact to where they were before. I'm at a loss as to what is going on.
I have figured out the cause of the significant delay in the creation of a new tab: if Firefox is set to display anything other than a blank page when launching a new tab, it drags. Configuring tabs to load a blank page causes the browser to behave as it should and puts it on par with Google Chrome. This explains why there seemed to be something wrong with my profile: as I visited more pages, more content was being loaded during the creation of a new tab. It also explains why it took less than a day for this to happen.
There are still some other issues that remain, however. For example, Firefox is very sluggish when on this page (as in, these forums) and certain others (such as Facebook)--this is not true for Chrome. Surprisingly, browsing YouTube with Firefox is a much more fluid experience than browsing these forums with Firefox. My only guess is that it has something to do with HTML5 rendering.
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