04-14-2007, 04:14 AM
Firefox 2.0 is slower than earlier versions, it does take an extra few seconds to launch and opening a new window can inexplicably take a couple of seconds, but it's not all that slow once it's running and with tabbed browsing going.
Unless you've got a really slow Mac or have several dozen tabs open you've probably got an extension or cache problem.
On my 1.6GHz G4 under 10.4, I'm seriously taxing my cpu, including a couple of renders and a transcode operation. My CPU meter is pegged at the top. My copy of Firefox has many add-ons/extensions and I've got 3 rows of tabs and it only just started to slow down when I hit the second row of tabs... My About window took about a second to open under these conditions.
Try this: Quit Firefox, go to your ~/Application Support/Firefox folder and remove your user profile folder. Just drag it to your desktop.
See if Firefox is faster the next time you launch it. If it's faster then you've got a problem with an add-on. Quit Firefox again, replace the new profile folder that it created with your old profile folder, launch Firefox again and then select Add-ons from the Tools menu and disable everything. Quit and launch Firefox yet again and it should be quite speedy.
Unless you've got a really slow Mac or have several dozen tabs open you've probably got an extension or cache problem.
On my 1.6GHz G4 under 10.4, I'm seriously taxing my cpu, including a couple of renders and a transcode operation. My CPU meter is pegged at the top. My copy of Firefox has many add-ons/extensions and I've got 3 rows of tabs and it only just started to slow down when I hit the second row of tabs... My About window took about a second to open under these conditions.
Try this: Quit Firefox, go to your ~/Application Support/Firefox folder and remove your user profile folder. Just drag it to your desktop.
See if Firefox is faster the next time you launch it. If it's faster then you've got a problem with an add-on. Quit Firefox again, replace the new profile folder that it created with your old profile folder, launch Firefox again and then select Add-ons from the Tools menu and disable everything. Quit and launch Firefox yet again and it should be quite speedy.