Jimmy Posted November 7, 2013 For the last few days (since I shut off and rebooted my modem to repair the connection after it got hot), every time I've tried to browse the Doomworld forums, my Firefox has slowed to an absolute crawl, which seems to be a permanent effect until I restart the program. From the point that I load seemingly any page on the forums in my browser, it then takes between 5 and 10 minutes to connect to every webpage, and all the open Doomworld tabs remain with the green spinning "loading" icon, as though something is still trying to load on the page(s) even after the threads have completely loaded. I did have an unread PM in my inbox for about a week, which is around about the same time these problems started, but after having read said PM, they persist, so it's not related to that. Chrome works fine, however, and Safari also works fine from my iPad. It's just Firefox that becomes unusable whenever I load a DWF page. What's going on? 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted November 7, 2013 Happened to me too on my PC. At some point Firefox was taking up like 1.5 GB of ram and only Doomworld was open. A lot of times on my PC when I go to Doomworld its fine. Click on forums.... freezes and locks until I shutdown firefox. 0 Share this post Link to post
Obsidian Posted November 7, 2013 Mine only started going slow when I read this thread about Firefox going slow. I'm blaming you somehow. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted November 7, 2013 Don't know if a problem I had a few days ago is in any way related. YouTube videos embedded in javascript-heavy web pages would send my browser (SeaMonkey) crazy, opening multiple connections to cache videos (probably in all available resolutions) and continue doing so even after I close the offending pages. After downloading a few gigs of unwatched video I opened my firewall's Rules & Zones window and set about blocking Google's cache servers. I also updated the Flash player and don't seem to be having any trouble watching videos on demand. Problem solved - I hope. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted November 7, 2013 What?! Are you implying that Firefox suffers from memory leaks and inefficiencies that prevent it from rendering a simple vBulleting layout without hogging?! How preposterous! This has NEVER happened before! Obviously your computer must suck and be like 10 years old. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted November 7, 2013 Same issue I've been having with Doomworld for quite some time now. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted November 7, 2013 Jokes apart, it's sad to see how Firefox didn't ever really get rid of the hogging/memory leaking problems, which were so bad that third party memory management extensions were made for it. Not even after they inflated the versioning scheme and got from version 3 to 20 in less than two years. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted November 7, 2013 Just put NoScript in it and do not allow JS for Doomworld. All you'll miss is the music in Post Hell. Embedded videos can still be watched by clicking on them first. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted November 7, 2013 I have Firefox 3.0 in one of my laptops (with Windows 98) and I never encountered this problem. Gez said:All you'll miss is the music in Post Hell. By the way, how do I disable the "flames" in Post Hell? EDIT: Sorry, I meant Windows XP, not 98. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted November 7, 2013 Gez said:Just put NoScript in it and do not allow JS for Doomworld. All you'll miss is the music in Post Hell. Embedded videos can still be watched by clicking on them first. The music really makes post hell for me complete. I would miss it. I also miss. Captain Jean Luke Picard of the USS Enterprise. Captain Jean Luke Picard of the USS Enterprise. Captain Jean Luke Picard of the USS Enterprise. Captain Jean Luke Picard of the USS Enterprise. 0 Share this post Link to post
Blue Shadow Posted November 7, 2013 I'm currently using v25.0 of Firefox - it work fine. It loads the forums with no issues. 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted November 7, 2013 On Firefox right now and it's just peachy. You're is obviously deficient. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted November 7, 2013 Clonehunter said:You're is obviously deficient. Obviously the Elders of the Internets are still divided over the proper use of "your" and "you're". As with other great mysteries, we'll probably never know the truth. Examples: You're sight sux Your an asshole 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted November 7, 2013 Actually it'd be "Yours" in that case, not "Your". "Where is my car?" "Your is over there." "No I'm right here." "Where is my car?" "Yours is over there." "DUUUDE!" 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted November 7, 2013 Avoozl said:Could the ads be slowing it down? Absolutely. Ad infestation can seriously harm internet speed. 0 Share this post Link to post
schwerpunk Posted November 7, 2013 Jodwin said:What ads? The ads at the bottom of the page, you thief. 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMAD Posted November 7, 2013 Mine grinds to a halt when I try to look at threads with lots of embedded videos, but that's probably just because I like older versions of Firefox. Everything else seems fine to me. 0 Share this post Link to post
chungy Posted November 8, 2013 I've noticed that stats.big-boards.com never resolves anymore, but other than that, Firefox hasn't been acting unusual here. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted November 8, 2013 Such threads are invalidated by people not specifying their exact OS, platform, browser version, add-ons, plugins, etc. so they just become a cluserfuck of speculation and "maybes". But aside from that, which version of Firefox in the last...hmm....4 years was worth a damn? 0 Share this post Link to post