Comments on: Firefox 3.5 and the Beach Ball http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/ Technology and Geek Stuff by Eric Burke Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:37:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anthony Arrigo http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-50020 Anthony Arrigo Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:45:14 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-50020 Interesting, I took the advice above and disabled most of my plugins. Have not seen the BBOD lately :-) Thanks! Interesting, I took the advice above and disabled most of my plugins. Have not seen the BBOD lately :-)
Thanks!

]]> By: Anthony Arrigo http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-50018 Anthony Arrigo Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:27:54 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-50018 I've been running into this a lot, lately as well. I seem to get it most often when I switch tabs. Change tabs an wham, my machine beachballs for 10-20 seconds. It was NOT doing this on the original 3.5 which seemed smokin' fast compared to 3.x. Now, however FF can bring my dual core w/4GB of RAM to a halt. It always rights itself, but try and get any work done when every time you try to do something you have to wait 20 seconds. Come on FF, get this fixed quickly! I’ve been running into this a lot, lately as well. I seem to get it most often when I switch tabs. Change tabs an wham, my machine beachballs for 10-20 seconds. It was NOT doing this on the original 3.5 which seemed smokin’ fast compared to 3.x. Now, however FF can bring my dual core w/4GB of RAM to a halt. It always rights itself, but try and get any work done when every time you try to do something you have to wait 20 seconds.
Come on FF, get this fixed quickly!

]]> By: Wayne http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-48567 Wayne Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:41:03 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-48567 Firefox 3.5.3 is giving me a lot of beach balls. It started very recently, maybe 3.5.3, maybe 3.5.0, but it was not that way previously. It always comes back to responsive after 5 to 25 seconds. It does seem to be a DNS thing, as sometimes I get a "page not found" (but beach ball goes away), and a "Try Again" finds it almost immediately most of the time. Most beach balls just go away, though, and the flow continues after waiting [im]patiently. Firefox 3.5.3 is giving me a lot of beach balls. It started very recently, maybe 3.5.3, maybe 3.5.0, but it was not that way previously. It always comes back to responsive after 5 to 25 seconds. It does seem to be a DNS thing, as sometimes I get a “page not found” (but beach ball goes away), and a “Try Again” finds it almost immediately most of the time. Most beach balls just go away, though, and the flow continues after waiting [im]patiently.

]]> By: Bart http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-47518 Bart Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:09:43 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-47518 Same beachball in Snow Leopard. It happens to me when I close FF -- like 5 - 6 seconds of beach ball before anything happens. Same beachball in Snow Leopard. It happens to me when I close FF — like 5 – 6 seconds of beach ball before anything happens.

]]> By: Hussein Nasser http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-45903 Hussein Nasser Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:23:54 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-45903 Same here! Actually I wrote an article about Firefox 3.5 performance http://hnaser.blogspot.com/2009/08/firefox-35-is-buggy.html Same here!
Actually I wrote an article about Firefox 3.5 performance

http://hnaser.blogspot.com/2009/08/firefox-35-is-buggy.html

]]> By: Gregoryno6 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-43398 Gregoryno6 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:56:45 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-43398 I had the same problem as Tinger reported on July 6 two days ago (Jul 26). Reported it to Amazon, who did reply, and Mozilla, who, as of this date... I went shopping again today and no problems. Maybe it's fixed, maybe the gremlins were outside having a smoke. I had the same problem as Tinger reported on July 6 two days ago (Jul 26). Reported it to Amazon, who did reply, and Mozilla, who, as of this date…
I went shopping again today and no problems. Maybe it’s fixed, maybe the gremlins were outside having a smoke.

]]> By: Randy http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-42236 Randy Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:29:59 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-42236 Absolutely insane... a Mac dual G5 brought to a standstill by clicking a field. To me that's like smashing a feather with an anvil and having it break (or Curly's head with an axe.) Absolutely insane… a Mac dual G5 brought to a standstill by clicking a field. To me that’s like smashing a feather with an anvil and having it break (or Curly’s head with an axe.)

]]> By: Tom Chiverton http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-42233 Tom Chiverton Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:50:46 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-42233 Bug for that is : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501605 Bug for that is : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501605

]]> By: Tom Chiverton http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-42232 Tom Chiverton Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:25:44 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-42232 Startup problems on Windows are because, for reason I don't pretend to understand, FireFox seeds it's crypto random generator by reading the Windows temp. files, IE cache etc. etc. This tends to thrash the disk. Hopefully 3.5.1 will make use of each O/S proper random source. Startup problems on Windows are because, for reason I don’t pretend to understand, FireFox seeds it’s crypto random generator by reading the Windows temp. files, IE cache etc. etc. This tends to thrash the disk. Hopefully 3.5.1 will make use of each O/S proper random source.

]]> By: TInger http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/07/03/firefox-35-and-the-beach-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-41775 TInger Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:48:35 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/?p=1253#comment-41775 Amazon has problems in their ordering process under V3.5 I didn't see in earlier versions of firefox. Basically it throws me into a loop within the Amazon site and you cannot complete the order, instead putting you into some marketing screens instead of the next step in the order process. Amazon has problems in their ordering process under V3.5 I didn’t see in earlier versions of firefox. Basically it throws me into a loop within the Amazon site and you cannot complete the order, instead putting you into some marketing screens instead of the next step in the order process.

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