Is it just me, or is Firefox 3 a real dog?

The Deacon

The Deacon

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Downloaded it yesterday, what a mistake! Slower that molasses in January, pages take forever to load. Plus, the new interface makes it look like an IE7 wannabe, what's up with that? Anyone else here among the 8 million who downloaded it yesterday, and if so, is my experience normal or abnormal?
 
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Yes it was slow. The funny thing is that it got faster when I allowed the cookies.

Now its ok but I keep going back to WE .
 
It has been lightning fast, and very stable, on all of my systems for the past 6 months (beta tester). Love it!

AJ
 
its been lightning fast on my system. I can open a picture thread and all the images in the thread pop up way faster than before, almost instantly.
 
I just downloaded it, and it is zippy quick to use. Pages load fast. Just my experience.
 
Seems to work as fast if not a bit faster than Safari on OS X Tiger. Pictures seem to look clearly on Firefox than Safari, both of whihc are light years ahead of the AOL browser in that department.
 
give avant browser a try. it loads really fast for me. i have been using it for years and havent had one bit of trouble. you can even disable scripts, activex and a few other items which make pages load faster too. i hardly get any spyware since i usually have everything but pictures disabled.
 
Glad to hear my experience is not the norm. Wish I knew why it's not working well for me. Had been running FF almost exclusively for over a year, really liked it and always kept it updated to the latest version. Used it a while Tuesday evening, downloaded and installed FF3, made absolutely no other changes to my computer. Tried opening one website I visit regularly, would not load. Tried a number of others, either took 10-20 seconds for the first page to load, or timed out with an "unable to connect" error page, or said "done" on the status bar, but displayed a blank white page. Same deal ever since. IE7 works fine, so I don't think it's my cable provider's or ISP's fault. Nothing fancy for websites; this place, my local newspaper, the weather channel, my one bank, a couple other knife related forums, google, ebay, and IMDB. Just removed all my add-ons and themes, most of were disabled anyway since they were not compatible with FF3, no effect. Am using IE7 for now, but wish I could either figure this out, or revert to FF2.x - really wish it was like Netscape where you could have multiple versions installed on one machine.
 
Chiller2 said:
You might want to see if you have the latest version of Java.
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Had 1.5.0.11, took your suggestion and installed 1.6.0.06. May have made a bit of difference, but page load times are still excessive (8 seconds to load the Google home page, vs near instant with FF2 or IE7, 15-20 to load this site vs 2-4 with either of the others) and still getting frequent time outs (but FF2 did that quite a bit too). Tried safe mode, that did not help. Have rebooted, several times in fact, that did not help.
 
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