Threads with lots of youtube links are CRUSHING my Firefox.

Has anyone else been having serious issues with Firefox lately?

I'm updated to the most recent version and it starts up SUPER slow.

Whenever I'm in a thread with a lot of youtube clips (unfortunately, some of my favorites... like the jungle threads) the shit just won't comply. It makes me feel like I'm back in the 90s.

I think the issues began 2 updates ago.

I also regularly empty my browser cache and it only really helps for the first usage afterward. Wtf? Amirite?

I can't take it anymore.

yeah with chrome too (or either my computer is shit)

Haven't noticed anything with Chrome. I'll give FF a go for a while and see.

Keep in mind it's not just you computer that affects load times on YouTube videos - each one is a connection to YT that depending on the traffic to your machine to YT and back, and what server the video(s) are hosted on, can slow things down considerably even on the fastest PC with the fastest connection.

I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF.

I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time.

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:03 PM, jefferoo said:

I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF.

I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time.

Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT...

firefox.

there's your problem!

i will leave this here, just in case

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/71768-design-suggestion-different-way-of-embedding-youtube-videos-in-posts/

yea had this problem here too until i started chroming (mac)

It's a long shot, but it could be youtube. Search HTML5 trial and how to leave it. I was having problems with horrible youtube playback on Safari.

I did say it was a long shot, right? Allow me to repeat: loooong......shot.

kthkxbye

Delete flash, and be happy.

yea was running pretty shittily in safari too here

Hmmm... forgot to mention that leaving the html5 trial (for which i did not subscribe!) solved my youtube problems. It was implied, but I suck at words.

My bad.

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:09 PM, Joyrex said:

 

Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT...

Sorry.

I didn't get a chance to read it the first time because I was typing and didn't read your post until after mine had posted.

sounds like you need to switch to Internet Explorer 6.

-DJ hardcode

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:09 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:03 PM, jefferoo said:

I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF.

I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time.

 

Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT...

Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos)

  On 5/14/2012 at 11:56 PM, modey said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:09 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:03 PM, jefferoo said:

I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF.

I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time.

 

Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT...

Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos)

indeed, slow connections to YouTube should not make a browser crawl when scrolling up and down the page.

  On 5/14/2012 at 11:09 PM, uptown devil said:

sounds like you need to switch to Internet Explorer 6.

 

-DJ hardcode

lol

I had a similar situation with opera, youtube thread wasn`t crushing it but slowed down considerably...turned out it was adblock extension, disabled it and now everything is cool. So maybe its some FF addon?

  On 5/15/2012 at 12:29 AM, oscillik said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 11:56 PM, modey said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:09 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:03 PM, jefferoo said:

I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF.

I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time.

 

Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT...

Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos)

 

indeed, slow connections to YouTube should not make a browser crawl when scrolling up and down the page.

No, in that case it is the Flash player(s) taxing the CPU.

  On 5/15/2012 at 4:49 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 5/15/2012 at 12:29 AM, oscillik said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 11:56 PM, modey said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:09 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 8:03 PM, jefferoo said:

I have a decent computer with 4gb of ram. I can run high powered applications without a tick. For some reason, its just FF.

I swear to you, my iPhone 3GS is faster with safari than FF most of the time.

 

Read what I wrote again - nothing to do with hardware, just the quality of connection at that time to YT...

Yeah, but it shouldn't cause the entire browser to halt until it's finished loading the youtube players! Which is what's happening in my case, among other things (eg. causing the flash plugin to crash 25% of the time when I play youtube videos)

 

indeed, slow connections to YouTube should not make a browser crawl when scrolling up and down the page.

 

No, in that case it is the Flash player(s) taxing the CPU.

but it never used to do this on WATMM until fairly recently

You could install FlashBlock and load the videos individually/decide if you even want to load them?

  On 5/15/2012 at 5:46 PM, hautlle said:

You could install FlashBlock and load the videos individually/decide if you even want to load them?

Nice!

i usually have 50-150 tabs open at any given time in my Firefox (TreeStyle) and the only problem I have is opening pages with loads of embedded flash applets. RAM-spikes FTL. will try FlashBlock..

you could try creating a new profile in firefox and see if that makes a difference.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles

the current beta version has a reset feature that starts a new profile and automatically imports your info.

https://blog.mozilla.org/verdi/166/the-new-reset-firefox-feature-is-like-magic/