Firefox speed issues
Hi all, Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using? Thanks in advance Nicole
Yes, have noticed--it's been a problem here. Clear everything in the cache, but most important is to unselect "Use hardware acceleration when available". For FF on Linux, that's: Preferences -> Advanced -> Browsing Greg -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506\ ------------------------ On 11/14/2014 12:46 PM, Nicole Engard wrote:
Hi all,
Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using?
Thanks in advance Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
http://lifehacker.com/disable-firefoxs-hardware-acceleration-to-fix-slowness... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/991122 http://www.askvg.com/tip-reduce-mozilla-firefox-loading-time-by-disabling-ha... -- Greg Lawson Rolling Hills Consolidated Library 1912 N. Belt Highway St. Joseph, MO 64506 ---------------------------------------------- On 11/14/2014 12:46 PM, Nicole Engard wrote:
Hi all,
Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using?
Thanks in advance Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Hi Nicole, We're using Chromium for Koha (due to the excessive slowness), except where we need silent receipt printing, where we're stuck with Firefox until a jsprint-like addon for Chrome is available. The slowness began presenting in Firefox 28, in both Windows and Linux for us. We found a browser re-set (help > restart with addons disabled) helped, a little. - Sean/Coos On 11/14/2014 09:46 AM, Nicole Engard wrote:
Hi all,
Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using?
Thanks in advance Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
I haven't noticed speed issues with Firefox, but their security issues have recently been problematic with Koha - those appear resolved, but I'd tried Chrome for a few days (I had avoided Chrome since there were general issue with it on my work desktop, though others here had not issue with it - those problems seem to be gone now). Chrome did not present any of the security issues, and one thing I discovered: long ago I noticed that many Koha pages can't open via the back/forward browser navigation , especially in the ACQ module. I hadn't considered that this is browser-related, but so far I'm not seeing this problem in Chorme. I will try to remember to continue using Koha on Chrome and see how things run. Jeff Gabel Catalog & E-Resources Manager Brooklyn Law School 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY, 11201 Phone: 718-780-7978 jeff.gabel@brooklaw.edu ------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Nicole Engard Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 12:47 PM To: Koha Subject: [Koha] Firefox speed issues Hi all, Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using? Thanks in advance Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Salvete! Yes, Firefox has been as slow as I am of late. Another thing I noticed was that a lot of the privacy stuff seems not to work properly anymore, too. Cheers, Brooke
Another thing I noticed was that a lot of the privacy stuff seems not to work properly anymore, too.
I'm curious about this. Can you elaborate on it? -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Hi, Nicole-- I haven't noticed any slowness with Firefox 33.1 on Win7, and Firefox still works much better for us with Koha than Chrome, but we probably have a very unusual set of circumstances: --Our employer has locked down Chrome options for use with our email system & disabled the ability to update it --Our network is slower than most home DSL networks --We *are* using Windows...:) So maybe I should say that our Firefox is working as fast as it usually does? Cheerio! heather ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/museum-collections.htm "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using?
Thanks in advance Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
We have Firefox 33.1 version & Win7, Koha is still slow.. Luminita Vulcu <http://ecampus.salus.edu/library/> Library <http://ecampus.salus.edu/library> of Salus University <http://www.salus.edu> 8360 Old York Road Elkins Park, Pa 19027 phone: 215-780-1262 fax: 215-780-1263 Luminita@salus.edu On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Hernandez, Heather < heather_hernandez@nps.gov> wrote:
Hi, Nicole--
I haven't noticed any slowness with Firefox 33.1 on Win7, and Firefox still works much better for us with Koha than Chrome, but we probably have a very unusual set of circumstances: --Our employer has locked down Chrome options for use with our email system & disabled the ability to update it --Our network is slower than most home DSL networks --We *are* using Windows...:)
So maybe I should say that our Firefox is working as fast as it usually does?
Cheerio! heather
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heather Hernandez Technical Services Librarian San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center 415-561-7032, heather_hernandez@nps.gov http://www.nps.gov/safr/historyculture/museum-collections.htm
"The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail."--Gustaf Lindborg
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using?
Thanks in advance Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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Try turning off hardware acceleration if it's turned on. Not specifically with Koha, but Chrome was unusably slow until I turned off hardware acceleration and I've always turned off hardware acceleration in Firefox. (This is on Windows 7.) The hardware acceleration setting in Firefox is in Advanced options, under the General tab. On 11/14/2014 12:46 PM, Nicole Engard wrote:
Hi all,
Have you noticed that Firefox has been super duper slow lately? Sometimes I can't even get Google to load up it's so slow. This is also effecting Koha. I watched a patron page try to load for over a minute before I restarted Firefox and it loaded up. I'm wondering what you're all doing to speed up Firefox or if you're using Chrome for Koha? I know there are some things like receipt printing and a few Acq things that just don't work right in Chrome, but everything is speedy in Chrome so is it the solution? Or is there another solution you're all using?
Thanks in advance Nicole _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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