voyage to mars
Friday, March 25, 2005
  Firefox is really starting to piss me off. It's become my browser-of-choice on all my computers, PCs and Mac, and it's a world beyond Explorer in functionality and speed...but it keeps hanging. Whenever I hit a page with lots of Flash and/or Java applets, Firefox gets bogged down, and eventually it doesn't respond to input at all. If I leave it alone for a few minutes (minutes!), it usually recovers, but unless I navigate away from the troublesome sites, it'll just hang again. And again. And again. The IGN sites, in particular, seem to trip Firefox up, and those are sites I visit every day, and most of them need Flash enabled in order to function properly. So what to do? I don't want to switch again, since I've grown to like the way Firefox works, but it's frustrating to see a piece of software that prides itself on stability being so fundamentally unstable.  17:43  
Comments:
Are you an IGN insider and do you post on the IGN boards? =D
# posted by Anonymous : 6:23 PM
 
No problem here with IGN or other flash heavy sites with FF... and I'm sailing away with my trusty old P3 733MHz :-D
# posted by Anonymous : 8:20 PM
 
update to v1.0.2 if you haven't.
# posted by Anonymous : 6:13 AM
 
Clicking on a pdf link is hell aswell. I have to wait untill it is completly downloaded, and the reader is loaded before i can do anything in any of the other tabs that i have open. :(
# posted by Anonymous : 5:04 PM
 
I've never had any problems with it, but I'd very much recommend the Adblock plugin, which will clear out all those nasty flash ads that plague the whole of the IGN/Gamespy network.
# posted by James : 4:07 PM
 
I have real trouble with GameSpot. The entire thing just locks up for ages. I've had to give up going there, which tbh isn't much of a bad thing...
# posted by Anonymous : 2:41 PM
 
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Flash gets replaced with a placeholder which you can click to see it.

Java is a pain. I say just switch it off unless you need it.
# posted by Anonymous : 6:33 PM
 
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