Odd Firefox problem

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-08-28 06:17pm

There are a few forums I frequent on a regular basis and I have auto login enabled. Meaning I don't have to go through the process of logging in every time. Places like SD.net, IMDB, Spacebattles, Ebay (though I don't 'remember' my password on that), Secret Scotland and so on.

However, I'm now noticing that I have to enter the details in every time I visit these forums and would like to know what could be done to solve it.

I have the remember cookies checked, and the privacy settings all seem to check out. This has only occurred within the last day or two.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2008-08-28 06:18pm

Flush your cookies.

CorSec · Post by **CorSec** » 2008-08-28 10:41pm

I'd also check to make sure you don't have duplicate entries in the saved passwords.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-08-29 12:13pm

Sods law strikes again, I ask about this and the problem goes away.

Thanks anyway for the replies.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-08-29 03:24pm

Not so fast. My Firefox is crashing on Flash sites left, right and centre at times. It still runs Flash, but has a knack of shutting down as soon as you load a random video sometimes. That, and it is PAINFULLY slow next to FF2.

Riddle me this; why is FF3 so sucky next to FF2?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-08-29 03:29pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Not so fast. My Firefox is crashing on Flash sites left, right and centre at times. It still runs Flash, but has a knack of shutting down as soon as you load a random video sometimes. That, and it is PAINFULLY slow next to FF2.

Riddle me this; why is FF3 so sucky next to FF2?

Heh. For me, FF3 made the flashy crashy stuff go away. Methinks you have a bad flash plugin and/or extension - have you tried running a new profile and seeing of the problem persists?

The slowness shouldn't happen. FF3 beats FF2 like an ugly stepchild in page load times.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2008-08-29 03:30pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Not so fast. My Firefox is crashing on Flash sites left, right and centre at times. It still runs Flash, but has a knack of shutting down as soon as you load a random video sometimes. That, and it is PAINFULLY slow next to FF2.

Riddle me this; why is FF3 so sucky next to FF2?

Something is terribly wrong with your configuration. You may have extensions that are fighting with Firefox, you may have an older version of Flash installed, something else on your computer may not like FF3, a bad plugin - the list goes on and on.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-08-29 05:09pm

I have considered it's probably Flash itself, but I'll look into that. My extensions are fine, even uninstalled, it's still a problem.

Also, for speed, I've seen a lot of comments along the same lines. FF3 is easily far slower than FF2. Not going to change my browsing style, it is, however, readily noticeable when a page takes 15 seconds to load and not 5.

The loss of the memory buffer overflow is good. These extra issues are not.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2008-08-29 05:11pm

Also, for speed, I've seen a lot of comments along the same lines. FF3 is easily far slower than FF2. Not going to change my browsing style, it is, however, readily noticeable when a page takes 15 seconds to load and not 5.

Seriously? Comments where?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2008-08-29 05:25pm

What? Slower? The JavaScript engine is significantly faster (with major improvements to come in 3.1 still!) and IIRC the renderer was also tweaked.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2008-08-29 05:39pm

I have FF3 crash at random, and when it comes back up, chunks won't be running. Like, the tabs under the address bar will not be there, it will just be a think gray bar. Or the folders at the top (File, Edit, View, History, etc) will not be there. Or if it is restoring it will show the page I was on last with the tab name of whatever was the furthest left and show none of the other tabs. And it STILL hates the fuck out of PDF files and won' open them, I have to download them and open then independently (where search doesn' work for some reason). I've run multiple virus checks, and nothing comes up. Same for spyware.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2008-08-29 06:15pm

Eh, FF on Linux has always been unstable for me due to Flash crashing left and right. On 64 bit it's somewhat alleviated by having Flash run in a separate process. FF3 itself has always been fairly solid, but I have a very minimal abount of extensions installed.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-08-29 06:25pm

Bounty wrote:
Seriously? Comments where?

The Intarwebs. Just Google "Firefox 3 slow". I'm going to do a clean install because that can sometimes be the issue when previous profiles start clashing. FF2 was never a problem, and I'd even downgrade to it if this keeps up with a fresh install.

Post by **Edi** » 2008-08-31 04:52pm

I had some issues with FF3 because my old FF2 profile is old as the pyramids and tweaked to hell, but some playing round with the config fixed everything. I'm much happier with it than FF2.