Firefox - Page loads 'eating at' each other?

Magus`

Something I've noticed (especially on this forum) is if a site is slow to respond for whatever reason and I am opening another web page at roughly the same time, the second web page seems to stall until the first web page either connects or times out.

Is this a Firefox thing or internet thing or what? It's not a big deal, but to basically have FF 'soft locked' when a page won't load is kind of annoying.

illig

Firefox is a well known resource hog. It gobbles up memory like it was going out of style as an example (just check your task manager), so it can bog down not only itself but the rest of the computer applications as well on slower machines.

Since it's designed to run all the tabs within a single instance of the application, it's conceivable that any resource limitation would affect the other tabs as well. You can try to see if it happens if you are running multiple instances of Firefox (in Windows, just drag the tab to the desktop to launch a separate instance), or you can try another browser (i suggest Chrome - it's damn speedy in comparison to FF in my experience).

Magus`

Chrome seems nice, but it didn't have the Awesome Bar which is.. Awesome.

ceres

I use Opera 10 and love it. It doesn't work with everything ever, but I use IE as a backup browser for those things. And it doesn't come up much.

I am pretty tough on browsers, but this thing rarely crashes.

Essee

Come to think of it, about as far back as I can remember, something similar HAS happened, but not when you're just loading two things at once. I used to use Netscape (all the way up to 7.2 when they were bought by AOL), briefly used Firefox, then moved back to Mozilla (which later Netscapes had been based off of beforehand), which turned into SeaMonkey, which I now use, and has more built-in features and a better UI than Firefox does. It used to have its own separate way of handling pages compared to Firefox, which actually meant better performance with lots of Flash videos on one page, for example, but it's now based off the Firefox 3 core for better compatibility. Anyway, across all these browsers (and I originally thought this was just a dial-up limitation), browsers would only load 2-3 pages at one time, then sort of "queue" the others beyond that until one of them finished, as you are describing. I've only rarely found this to be a problem, when I would load up like 5 windows/tabs at once, but usually if you're opening a bunch of windows that close together, they're small pages like an image or plaintext or something, in my experience. This also only happens when the browser gets to the "waiting"/"transferring data" stage, as far as I recall.

I don't have enough experience with Opera (which I have used to a small degree, and think is reasonably nice) to know whether it also does this or not, but I'm guessing it's supposed to be a performance thing. I can't be totally sure whether or not IE does this because I have avoided using it since I was little, to the best of my ability, but I think I remember IE doing this, as well. At any rate, does this happen when only ONE site is actively loading and you try to load up a second? Because I'm quite certain I've only seen this behavior when 3+ sites are being loaded at the same time, so it could mean that it isn't Firefox doing it.

Also, if you like Chrome better, I think Chrome does have something just like Awesome Bar in it, just from googling "chrome awesome bar," and I guess as recently as 2009 people posted about making it work much more like Firefox's Awesome Bar than it does by default. Note: I haven't actually confirmed any of the advice given there, just wanted to link you to it for your reference.

TychoCelchuuu

Magus` wrote: »

Chrome seems nice, but it didn't have the Awesome Bar which is.. Awesome.

Opera basically has the Awesome Bar. Put "h" in front of whatever you type into the field.