Anyone having opening issues with Mozilla FIREFOX?

[Pete]

Hey ADNers,

Has any of you had issues with opening Mozilla Firefox lately, like taking an extremely long time to open?

For the last 3 weeks or so, it takes my computer up to TWO MINUTES before the application actually pops up on the screen, and nearly another minute to load the home page, a Mozilla version of the Google page.

Just now I counted it. As soon as the dialup connection was fully complete, I doubleclicked on Firefox's desktop shortcut icon, and waited until it came up onto the screen. I checked the Connection Status and it read I was connected for two minutes, equal to the time I waited for Firefox to actually appear on the screen.

I also opened up Windows Task Manager. Firefox was sucking 35,000 K of memory, and it had only just started loading the home page!!!!!!!!!!

That took another minute, and finally when I came here it was only using 18,500 K of memory, and loaded the page quicker. Every other webpage on the internet works okay as well, unless it has Java Applets though (really sucks it dry, like a boat outboard motor with an empty fuel tank).


Has anyone else experienced this?


I am also having an issue with ADN- when I first come to the home page, before logging in, the horizontal scrollbar is busted, and almost half the content is off the screen. After I've logged in it's okay.

[deepdiver32073]

I never even got that far... I downloaded Firefox from Mozilla's website and went to install it. I can't say for sure that it was the Firefox or something else entirely, but my hard drive crashed just a few minutes later.

[AYHJA]

Well, I don't think that Firefox would crash your harddrive, D-Double, but I'm not sure how much software you have on your machine, etc...

@ Pete

With the exception of a somewhat slow start up time (and it will suck up memory every now and then) I haven't had any of those issues...

What are the specs of your system..? And what kind of defragment tools, spyware/malware tools, anti-virus, software are you using..?

[Pete]

I don't remember all the specs, but I do recall the hard drive is 100 gigabytes.

OS: Windows XP
Antivirus: Norton Internet Security 2005
Spyware: AdAware 6, Spyboy Search & Destroy

Apart from the main Microsoft Office suite of programs that come with the OS, I've got Macromedia stuff (Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Exchange Manager, all MX version); Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free trimmed down version of Photoshop, Audacity- a music recording application like Pro Tools but easier to use and also free (note: I've got a few test recordings on the machine, which are starting to take up some space, I went from 97 GB free to 90 GB free), Yahoo Messenger, some WildTangent games that came with the machine.

Right now I am very tired, and accessing the internet from the university computer labs (the one I'm in right now only has IE, the others are shut), and can't remember all the applications on my computer, I am staying up in hope the gallery I requested will be up in gostosas soon, but really need, sleep, gotta work tomorrow.

I think I listed the majority of programs on the computer. Tomorrow night I will do a defrag and see if that helps.


Oh, I have a lot of images stored (no not Gostosas-type, I keep them on my backup machine, running windows 98), one set is 2GB including quicktime videos (pretty funny, i might post them in the future), and there are a few other sets from camps, all up probably a few gigabytes alone.

thanks ayhja, i'll get back to you and confirm what I posted of my specs.

[luvbugin]

I have dial up as well and my connection speed is around 46...I have never had a problem loading up Firefox. I even installed it myself which was scary enough. I think its your system timbo...