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Slow loading of pages (browser performance)
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed. I notice for certain webpages, firefox and chrome both load them very slowly. In fact, while text content loads quickly, both of the browsers seem to be loading ...
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Firefox is pounding my system what should I do
I'm running the latest version of firefox 17.0.1 on ubuntu 12.10 on a Acer Aspire One 722 Netbook. It has an amd dual core C60 processor and 2GB RAM.
As you can see, firefox is absolutely killing ...
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Ubuntu on Dell Latitude E5520 working slow
I know it's a little vague, but.
I really need your help.
I have Ubuntu 12.10 on Dell Latitude E5520 i5 2410M with 4GB RAM & 500 GB HDD.
With Firefox (16.0.2) it is extremely frustrating to do ...
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1answer
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Firefox consuming wildly inordinate amount of CPU
I've got a Firefox process with nothing in it but the Google home page (the "search" page, not the "homey" home page with news etc.) and this site. I've killed it and restarted it multiple times. ...
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Firefox is really slow. Could my power supply or Ubuntu be the cause for this? [closed]
I have installed ubuntu 11.10 long time ago and since then i was experiencing graphic performance regressions. With updates some things got better, others remained the same. Things that remained the ...
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1answer
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How do I enable submission of performance data in Firefox 7?
One item in the release notes of Firefox 7 reads
Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to
Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
This is feature is also called ...
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1answer
354 views
Is Firefox 6 performance worse in Ubuntu than upstream?
It has been said that Firefox 6 will perform better than previous version because it compiles with a newer version of GCC, version 4.5, and aggressive optimization.
When I updated to Firefox 6 in ...
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1answer
337 views
Downloading large files hangs system
When Im trying to download large files, i.e. 1gb or more under FireFox, first of all it starts with very big download speed and in few seconds in almost get up to max (~11 MBps). It is downloading ...
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4answers
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How to check system performance?
I am a new Ubuntu user and really like the look and the features of the OS. However, I have a feeling that the performance could be better. With that I mean:
Somehow the scrolling within firefox of ...
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5answers
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Is there a WINE version of Flash as a plugin to Firefox or Chrome?
I've seen complaints about flash performance. Would it be possible to use WINE as a plugin to firefox in order to get better performance out of flash? (Hopefully WINE would utilize some sort of ...
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Firefox Slow Performance
I have to say, firefox on ubuntu's performance is attrocious. Very quickly it gets into 100% cpu use (thank god I have multiple cores) and hundreds of megs of ram. Even closing tabs does not help the ...
