Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 October 2017, Shuichiro MAKIGAKI sent: > Or disable IPv6 on all interfaces. > NetworkManager should handle it, but sorry I don't know how to. I forgot about that. If your ISP, or router, doesn't support IPv6, then having your system try to use it can result in lengthy

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-12 Thread Shuichiro MAKIGAKI
Or disable IPv6 on all interfaces. NetworkManager should handle it, but sorry I don't know how to. Regards, Makkie 2017/10/11 23:15、Germano Massullo のメール: 1) If you use AdBlock replace it with UBlock Origin. 2) Increase the amount of processes used by Firefox

Re: Are you sure it's only the browser? Was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-12 00:43, Doug wrote: On 10/11/2017 02:44 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: ... I had EXACTLY, exactly the same problem on a fully updated F25 system, a couple of weeks ago. Unbearable. But in my case even libreoffice and kate were very slow. I solved the problem brilliantly by... switching

Re: Are you sure it's only the browser? Was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread Doug
On 10/11/2017 02:44 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: On 2017-10-10 23:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally get

Re: OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread stan
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:48:08 +0200 "M. Fioretti" wrote: > from what I read at https://adnauseam.io/, AdNauseam does something > else, and its purpose has nothing to do with performance. It DOES > download > the ads, specifically to "click" on them. Why do you say that it

Re: OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread katnip
stan: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:48:08 +0200 > "M. Fioretti" wrote: > >> from what I read at https://adnauseam.io/, AdNauseam does something >> else, and its purpose has nothing to do with performance. It DOES >> download >> the ads, specifically to "click" on them. Why do

Re: OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-11 17:26, stan wrote: ... I have noscript and privacy badger installed, though, and they block content that would come from ad servers. So, it is possible that adnauseum functions as you think, and I am just not seeing the effect because of these other plugins. ah, OK. This makes a

Re: OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread stan
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:48:08 +0200 "M. Fioretti" wrote: > from what I read at https://adnauseam.io/, AdNauseam does something > else, and its purpose has nothing to do with performance. It DOES > download > the ads, specifically to "click" on them. Why do you say that it

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread Germano Massullo
1) If you use AdBlock replace it with UBlock Origin. 2) Increase the amount of processes used by Firefox ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:07:54PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is > firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to > just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally > get around to

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread Germano Corrêa
I'm a regular Firefox and Fedora user, and I use stable firefox from fedora's repo and the nightly, both are running fast here. Once, like 2 versions ago, firefox used to be very slow, but that's not a problem now. Em qua, 11 de out de 2017 às 06:44, Ahmad Samir

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 11 October 2017 at 06:12, Robert Lu wrote: > Hi, I think there is some reason: > > 1. your connection is very slow. > you can try to test your network speed, such as fast.com > > 2. your firefox have internal bug. > well, you can open developer tools, and watch the

Re: Are you sure it's only the browser? Was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread Alessio Ciregia
On Oct 11, 2017 09:46, "M. Fioretti" wrote: I solved the problem brilliantly by... switching (also for other reasons) to Ubuntu 16.04LTS. Not 100% good, but much, much, much better from the point of view of this post. My highly unscientific opinion is that there is

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread Jonny Heggheim
On 10/10/2017 11:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is > firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to > just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally > get around to responding to keyboard

Re: OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread wwp
Hello M., On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:48:08 +0200 "M. Fioretti" wrote: > On 2017-10-11 00:20, stan wrote: > > > I'm running the latest firefox from the repositories, and I would > > characterize the response as 'snappy'. > > > Some possibilities: > > > Your configuration

OT: why would AdNauseam make Firefox faster?, was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-11 00:20, stan wrote: I'm running the latest firefox from the repositories, and I would characterize the response as 'snappy'. Some possibilities: Your configuration is allowing a lot of third party communication to slow down page loading. Typically pages load ads before content,

Are you sure it's only the browser? Was: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-11 Thread M. Fioretti
On 2017-10-10 23:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally get around to responding to keyboard strokes.

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Robert Lu
Hi, I think there is some reason: 1. your connection is very slow. you can try to test your network speed, such as fast.com 2. your firefox have internal bug. well, you can open developer tools, and watch the request timing tab. it can check which part of request is slow. such as DNS time, send

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Jack Craig
what about slow dns? (maybe namebench might help?) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 10 October 2017, Tom Horsley sent: > I started using google-chrome a while back because of the > rep it had for being fast, but every single release (and > they seem to happen every few days) bogs it down more and > more. Just a thought: If a browser is getting slower and

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/11/17 06:47, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:54 -0400 (EDT) > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is >> firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to >> just post a tweet, sometimes takes several

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread stan
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:40:33 -0500 Doug wrote: > A neat trick to use is ad nauseum instead of an ad blocker. > Where do you find ad nauseam? > (Not a Fedora user, at present.) It's a firefox plugin:

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:54 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is > firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to > just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally > get around to

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Doug
On 10/10/2017 05:20 PM, stan wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:54 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to just post a tweet, sometimes

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread stan
On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:54 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is > firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to > just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Doug
On 10/10/2017 04:15 PM, katnip wrote: Robert P. J. Day: i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally get around to responding to

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 10/11/17 05:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is > firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to > just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally > get around to responding to keyboard

Re: why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread katnip
Robert P. J. Day: > > i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is > firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to > just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally > get around to responding to keyboard strokes. > > is anyone

why is firefox so &*^$#&^$^#$*&_*()&) SLOW!?!?

2017-10-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i am beyond frustrated with how mind-bendingly slow as a dog is firefox on my fully-updated F26 system. eg, i go on twitter, want to just post a tweet, sometimes takes several *seconds* just to finally get around to responding to keyboard strokes. is anyone else seeing this? i am seriously