Comments on: Firefox 3.5 Slow and Hangs After Typing a Few Letters in URL Location Bar http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/ Daily updated news of useful advanced computer tips and tricks Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Effie http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/#comment-505588 Effie Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:57:36 +0000 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/?p=5326#comment-505588 I could not type anything without it hanging. I have a Mac and the MozillaHistoryView only works with Windows. But I used the backup procedure for my bookmarks and cleared all history, cache and cookies. Restarted Firefox and restored the bookmarks. Wow it doesn't hang anymore! Thank you. I could not type anything without it hanging. I have a Mac and the MozillaHistoryView only works with Windows. But I used the backup procedure for my bookmarks and cleared all history, cache and cookies. Restarted Firefox and restored the bookmarks. Wow it doesn’t hang anymore!

Thank you.

]]> By: Boni http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/#comment-466111 Boni Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:16:16 +0000 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/?p=5326#comment-466111 This is good, but is there anyway to make it faster even not deleting the history... i make it to 999 days, and it is so slow... I want all my history is saved forever so i can use it. having many history is have a good side, like if you forget something that you have visited and try too google it and found nothing, you just have to try to type the keyword in the address bar to see the site history you have been visited before... But thanks for this tips, if i have facing a very bad one i will using this tips... This is good, but is there anyway to make it faster even not deleting the history… i make it to 999 days, and it is so slow… I want all my history is saved forever so i can use it. having many history is have a good side, like if you forget something that you have visited and try too google it and found nothing, you just have to try to type the keyword in the address bar to see the site history you have been visited before…

But thanks for this tips, if i have facing a very bad one i will using this tips…

]]> By: Bob http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/#comment-465123 Bob Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:13:46 +0000 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/?p=5326#comment-465123 Unfortunatley, Firefox does not provide a way to do what you want in the Preferences menu. Didn't you notice the wording of the preference? "Remember my browser history for AT LEAST __ days?" (emphasis mine) By telling Firefox that you want your browser history for at least 45 days, it will still continue to keep the history as long as it wants. You need to set a maximum value, and you can only do that with about:config, user.js, prefs.js, etc. You need to set the following values to set a maximum history: user_pref("browser.history_expire_days", 45); user_pref("browser.history_expire_days.mirror", 45); Unfortunatley, Firefox does not provide a way to do what you want in the Preferences menu. Didn’t you notice the wording of the preference? “Remember my browser history for AT LEAST __ days?” (emphasis mine)

By telling Firefox that you want your browser history for at least 45 days, it will still continue to keep the history as long as it wants. You need to set a maximum value, and you can only do that with about:config, user.js, prefs.js, etc.

You need to set the following values to set a maximum history:

user_pref(“browser.history_expire_days”, 45);

user_pref(“browser.history_expire_days.mirror”, 45);

]]> By: jerry http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/#comment-464718 jerry Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:50:40 +0000 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/?p=5326#comment-464718 I only recently installed this, but I think it helped. (an addon that lets you change the URL bar auto-complete behavior (e.g. back to what it was in ff 2)). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637 I only recently installed this, but I think it helped. (an addon that lets you change the URL bar auto-complete behavior (e.g. back to what it was in ff 2)).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

]]> By: Randall Krause http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/#comment-464484 Randall Krause Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:08:45 +0000 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/?p=5326#comment-464484 Matt wrote: "WTF Tom? Switching back to IE…for trust reasons? You’re completely insane. " Your response is hilarious. I installed FF last year (after being a devout IE fan for nearly half a decade but finally giving into the trend). Well I picked up a virus within the FIRST week. And yet using IE, I never was infected with a single trojan -- only some random harmless spyware which paled in comparison to the virus that forced me to have to literally buy an entirely new hard drive because even a low-level format couldn't remove it. So please don't talk about FF like it's so flawless. No browser is perfect. Just the fact FF is so renowned for being slow and eating CPU cycles shows it has its own host of problems. My two cents. Matt wrote:
“WTF Tom? Switching back to IE…for trust reasons? You’re
completely insane. ”

Your response is hilarious. I installed FF last year (after being a devout IE fan for nearly half a decade but finally giving into the trend). Well I picked up a virus within the FIRST week. And yet using IE, I never was infected with a single trojan — only some random harmless spyware which paled in comparison to the virus that forced me to have to literally buy an entirely new hard drive because even a low-level format couldn’t remove it. So please don’t talk about FF like it’s so flawless. No browser is perfect. Just the fact FF is so renowned for being slow and eating CPU cycles shows it has its own host of problems. My two cents.

]]> By: Lucas http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/#comment-459939 Lucas Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:03:45 +0000 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/?p=5326#comment-459939 hey, great post. After looking at what was going on, i realized it's really a matter of finding something to compact all those sqllite databases. I ran across this on LifeHacker a while back when looking for something work over my registry - CCleaner. it's free & all that and has an option specifically for compacting the firefox databases & it works like a champ. Just an fyi!!! hey, great post. After looking at what was going on, i realized it’s really a matter of finding something to compact all those sqllite databases. I ran across this on LifeHacker a while back when looking for something work over my registry – CCleaner. it’s free & all that and has an option specifically for compacting the firefox databases & it works like a champ.

Just an fyi!!!

]]> By: Matt http://www.raymond.cc/blog/firefox-3-5-slow-and-hangs-after-typing-a-few-letters-in-url-location-bar/#comment-458027 Matt Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:39:07 +0000 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/?p=5326#comment-458027 WTF Tom? Switching back to IE...for trust reasons? You're completely insane. Browser vulnerabilities out the wazoo, willful defiance of standards, ActiveX/OS integration, monopolistic practices, the worst render and JS execution speeds, and a 3-5 year feature lag. And you *trust* that? Quit trolling. WTF Tom? Switching back to IE…for trust reasons? You’re completely insane.

Browser vulnerabilities out the wazoo, willful defiance of standards, ActiveX/OS integration, monopolistic practices, the worst render and JS execution speeds, and a 3-5 year feature lag. And you *trust* that?

Quit trolling.

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