FireFox 9.0.1 pausing every few seconds

[Widjaja]

For example when typing in this post, I will type the word or part of a word and the text updates later.

Say I type in 'for' and sometimes it will take about a second or less for the whole word to show up.
Or if I back space nothing happens then around second later it will do it.

I don't recall this happening before.

Anyone knows what causes this and how to resolve it?

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I had this issue with a previous version of Firefox but cant remember what one. Also, with that same version, the animated smilies on this site were really slow to animate. Fixed it with the next major release.

It didnt matter if I tuned up the computer or did a fresh format. The problem still persisted.

Try installing FF 10 beta.

 

[copenhagen69]

I have had this problem for like 2 releases now ... except mine freezes like ever 2 mins or so ..

 

[Widjaja]

I'll give Firefox 10 BETA a go.

Wondering if it has to do with other background tabs loading up their content.
I know that emails auto update when a new email comes in, I wonder if that is affecting FireFox somehow.

 

[hellrazor]

If I remember correctly, Firefox saves the session to your HD every few seconds..... you might try looking into that.

 

[RejZoR]

Do you have a lot of bookmarks and long stored history? Because in my case loads of these two things made my Firefox lock up every few minutes. After i cleaned 3/4 entries, everything is fine.

 

[Widjaja]

Do you have a lot of bookmarks and long stored history? Because in my case loads of these two things made my Firefox lock up every few minutes. After i cleaned 3/4 entries, everything is fine.

I have 29 sites bookmarked and 32 in a favorites folder I placed below the address bar.
Checked my stored history and it's so I am deleting some of them now and will see what happens afterwards.

 

[RejZoR]

Ok, bookmarks aren't a problem in your case. I had like 800 bookmarks...

 

[Widjaja]

Just took a look at what add ons I have installed.
All I had was a web debugging proxy add on, so that may be slowing down Firefox.

I guess I'll have to keep on posting for a while and see if the issue is still there.

EDIT:-
It appears the pausing has lessened
But I'm not 100% sure if it's just my mind playing tricks on me.

 

[twilyth]

If I remember correctly, Firefox saves the session to your HD every few seconds..... you might try looking into that.

Had to look it up, but this is the parameter (in milliseconds) - browser.sessionstore.interval

forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1542035

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Just a couple of suggestions that might be worth looking in to:

1/ Are you ccleaning your firefox temps on a regular basis? Have you got a monstrous directory of temps?
2/ Is your HDD going flaky? Browsers uses tens of thousands of temp micro-files, and a problem on the disk will be most obvious with a browser
3/ Try setting up a small ramdisk and point all your temps there. Does that improve things?
4/ Network binding is very high in the Windows scheduling/priority list. Have you got a bad ethernet cable, router, or LAN ports
5/ Install Winpatrol and see what else is running / potentially hogging resources
6/ While you are waiting for a FF update, give Chrome a go.

 

[Widjaja]

I haven't cleared FF temps in AGES.
Took a look at the size and it was over 1GB.
I have over 6GB in things cleared with CCleaner. (without Recycle bin taken int account.)

Nothing wrong with the HDD according to WD Diagnostics and HDTune.
The main OS drive does have some UDMA errors due to a faulty SATA cable with the DVD drive in an older build.

Haven't taken a look at RAMdisk.
I don't think I have any bad cables and have not looked at the network binding priority.

I'll take a look at Winpatrol.

Went to Chrome but didn't really like it.
Probably just not use to the interface.

After typing all the above after using CCleaner it appears I have no pauses.
If I do come across any pauses at a later date I may move to a different browser.
May even give Chrome ago again.

 

[temp02]

Install Places Maintenance add-on, run preset "All" (equals to all check boxes checked), let it finish, (remove add-on if you want), restart browser.

Oh to run the thing enter its options menu.

 

[Widjaja]

Ugh....it's still there.

I am thinking it is an add-on causing this.
Going to try the link above and see what happens.

I am currently using IE and not having the issues I encounter on FF9 but IE feels a bit sluggish in comparison loading up pages.

 

[twilyth]

Have you looked at the browser.sessionstore.interval parameter I mentioned earlier? If you increase this, you'll still get a lag when you hit the interval, but if you set it to 5 or 10 minutes, it should be more tolerable.

The real issue though is why the sessionstore should cause a lag. If changing the interval "fixes" the problem though, at least you will have something more concrete to search on.

 

[Widjaja]

Have you looked at the browser.sessionstore.interval parameter I mentioned earlier? If you increase this, you'll still get a lag when you hit the interval, but if you set it to 5 or 10 minutes, it should be more tolerable.

The real issue though is why the sessionstore should cause a lag. If changing the interval "fixes" the problem though, at least you will have something more concrete to search on.

I have taken a look at the link, but I haven't applied it out as of yet.

If the plugin does not work then I'll try out the session store to extent the time when it does it.

I can not tell if the plug in has resolved the issues or not as of yet and did not say if it was finished with what it was doing.
It just ended up with a log which made no sense to me.

It appeared as if it was just telling me what it had checked.
It will be a couple days before I actually find out if it has resolved the problem.