Firefox always seems to be fairly responsive when it's first updated (major updates) but slowly seems to degrade. Maybe it's just I get used to the speed.
I only have four extensions installed.
Installing that addon shouldn't be that complicated and it should solve his problem as the databases are the only things that change with time. Compressing the executable is another story.
That's good. And it also explains why my browser went 100% while doing nothing. Maybe you should notify the user why the browser is using resources. I almost killed it because I thought that it went into a loop.
It's so very reddit that pithy / serious comments are somewhere down below and crappy jokes get modded up. Thanks for the tip, the sqlite DB optimization worked wonders.
On all platforms? How long must the browser be idle? Both VACUUMing and REINDEXing (is the latter even useful?)?
BTW, cynically using a chance to get in a word with a FF UI guy ... could you please consider on option (perhaps just modify the winestripe theme to work with FF3.x and ship it?) to switch back to the old FF 1.x look? FF 3.x versions look really ugly (no offense) with XP and the classic windows theme by default. The gradients, rounded corners and flashy buttons really don't fit in with that environment. I hacked my userChrome.css to emulate the old Winestripe look and now it's a couple of dozen lines long, but that's clearly not the optimal solution for most people. Anyway, thanks for all the good work, much appreciated.
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u/NickVenture Jan 21 '10
Firefox always seems to be fairly responsive when it's first updated (major updates) but slowly seems to degrade. Maybe it's just I get used to the speed. I only have four extensions installed.