Firefox is cramping my productivity

[alpeb]

Hi,

Has anybody experienced this?

Sometimes, when filling forms, if I change to another field (either by clicking it or using TAB), FF stays there, thinking during like half a second before I get mi insertion character back and be able to start typing. I know it's not that much time, but when I have lots of forms with lots of fields, productivity gets diminished. I know for sure it's not javascript related, because even with very simple pages this happens. I've also tried several FF versions and no cigar.

I'd inmensely appreciate any help you can give on this.

Cheers,
Alejandro

P.S.: you know what? this problem is bothering me so much that I promise to buy a book at amazon to the first kind soul that solves it (of course no more than 30 bucks )

[Jman]

Do you have autocomplete on? If that remembered a lot of data it might get slow. But that probably wouldn't explain slow jumping around fields.

(Too bad I only have expensive things on my wishlist )

[alpeb]

Do you mean the "Saved form information" setting? I already tried working with that off, and same results

(You do have things under 30 in your wishlist )

[mnisay]

what site you are trying to fill up?

[bitrain]

Does this happen in the location bar too, if you switch from the location field to the search field, does it happen there too? (Try it with a very light page loaded, www.google.com will do)

[alpeb]

Originally Posted by mnisay

what site you are trying to fill up?

It happens with any site, from time to time, even very simple local forms I make.

Does this happen in the location bar too, if you switch from the location field to the search field, does it happen there too? (Try it with a very light page loaded, www.google.com will do)

YES!

[bitrain]

Sorry, I missed your reply...

Does it happen in other programs too, maybe the problem isn't with FF but with a library it uses. I don't know which libraries it uses so I can't recommend a program to test with.

The latest release candidate of FF is here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...ux-i686.tar.gz
It is the non-install version, so you can just extract it to a directory ad run ./firefox from there. Does it give the same problems? Make a clean profile, so instead of running ./firefox, run ./firefox -P test_profile or something after the -P. Sometimes a profile gets corrupt and does strange things, but it is just a gues.

[alpeb]

Thanks for you answer bitrain.

I think it doesn't happen in other programs. I tested with the latest release candidate and exactly the same thing happens. Any more clues?

Cheers,
Alejandro

[JordanN]

Does anyone know how to totally turn off that stupid "Find as You Type" feature? I looked all over about:config, but couldn't find anything that worked.

[Finalzone]

Originally Posted by greenlead

Does anyone know how to totally turn off that stupid "Find as You Type" feature? I looked all over about:config, but couldn't find anything that worked.

On menu toolbar
Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced
Uncheck Begin finding when you type

[silverblade]

I also have problems with Firefox. I can be replying to a message in a forum for example and every now and again the whole of Firefox seems to freeze for a few seconds and then it's fine again.

Additionally, it did have an annoying habit a while ago of just completely disappearing. I could have several copies open and suddenly they'd all disappear. This happens to a friend of mine who uses Firefox on FC3 also.

One of the most annoying things is Java-enabled pages. Quite frequently I find I'm no longer able to type in a chat window for example, unless I restart the browser.

But the most irritating thing I find is how long it takes to open up a new Firefox window... It's ridiculous... About 3 - 5 seconds from clicking the icon to the window appearing. CPU seems to jump to 100% usage during this rather constipated pause.