Comments on: Optimize Firefox with Firetune

By: peejay

peejay — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:41:03 +0000

downloaded it and tried it out. as what dave starr mentioned, it does feel a bit faster.

By: Dave Starr --- ROI Guy

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:06:07 +0000

An update. I did run FireTune right after I commented yesterday. I also looked over my plug-ins and deleted 6 of them that I wasn’t even using.

I did not make a scientific tests but with those plug-ins gine and FireTune, FireFox certainly “feels” faster. In particular the annoying lag between clicking on a tab and FF changing to that tab is noriceably faster, so it’s well worth the price.

By: dwek

dwek — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:09:24 +0000

most of the time when I use firefox on xp, it eats 60k++ of memory… I think more tabs means more memory.

By: jhay

jhay — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:38:59 +0000

No proplems with Firefox on my Ubuntu box too. But on my XP machine, I now use Safari because it loads faster and eats up less memory.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:40:51 +0000

I’ve tried and used FireTune a long time ago but I didn’t see any difference or change in startup time and page loading time. I eventually gave up and uninstalled it.

Dave is right. Firefox is indeed slow at times but not really that bad. I have no problems with Firefox installed on my laptop which runs Ubuntu. It loads and renders pages fine.

By: Dave Starr --- ROI Guy

Dave Starr --- ROI Guy — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:50:08 +0000

Nice to see this, thanks. I’m going to give it a try right away. FireFox has been a bit like the Emperor’s Clothes fable … don’t get me wrong, I love using FF, but it is _slow_. It’s slow even with one window open … I believe you even posted about that here, also, Abe a couple months back. In actual tests FF rendereing the same page as IE was as bad as 10 times slower. The FF “evangelists” spend so much time saying bad things about IE they have been unable to face the truth about their favorite product. Admitting faults and even more important, trying to correct them is actually doing a favor for the product.

Interestingly enough just today I have been in an email conversation with none other than the Evil One … John Chow. I have badgered him for months about anoying lines that show up in the comments on his blog and John has finally confirmed this is a problem that can only be reproduced in FireFox … that other great satan, Internet Explorer, renders John’s theme exactly as it is suposed to to look.

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