My Dell 700m is ususally in “hibernation” when I need it. I’ve found that if I leave Firefox (especially Firefox) or Thunderbird open when I let the machine go into standby (and then into hibernation), it will take up to 5-8 minutes to wake up. If I remember to close Firefox and Thunderbird first before I put it away and let it go to sleep, it will generally wake up in 20 seconds or so.
Usually, Firefox and Thunderbird are the only applications running when I see this – on rare occasion I’ll have UltraEdit or IE open, but they don’t seem to have any impact.
Machine specs, in case this info is useful:
- 2.0ghz Dothan processor
- 1 GB RAM
- Latest XP Professional
- McAfee VirusScan
- Firefox 1.5rc3
- Tunderbird 1.5b2
Also, Firefox is slow to start up when not running. I did a few quick searches but couldn’t find anything relevant to this. Anyone have any ideas?
try setting trim_on_minimize to false? won’t help with starting up, though.
http://www.extremete[...]54521,00.asp
Firefox (and maybe Thunderbird, not sure) has always been a memory hog. I remember leaving it on overnight on my linux machine and it slowed down pretty signifacantly.
Although the memory problem’s getting better for each reason, it is still there.
Try using the 1.5 release candidate on the Firefox project page.
Oh, never mind, read your specs more closely, and realized you actually are using the RC.
Interesting. I’ve noticed the same phenomenon without the patience to find out what takes so long to un-hibernate. I give up and give it a hard boot.
I’m ussing mozzila on os x 10.4 and it is the only browser that takes long to load (30 – 40 secs), so does firefox, haven’t checked camino, but IE, NETSCAPE and Safari load in les than 10 secs.
I thought it was just me.
Brett, the hard boot takes the same amount of time for me – so it’s sixes.
This is one of the reasons I’ve considered only using standby.
Marty, I think you need to read the post more closely.
I have had similar problems at work where they use McAfee, but not at home where I use AVG. When I look at task manager when firefox is loading it always seems to be vshield that is hogging the processor rather than firefox itself.
It may be entirely coincidental but that’s my experience anyway.
Booting takes 5 to 8 minutes? Gadzooks!
I wonder if it’s due to the fact that Moz uses XUL for so much of the interface? Loading all those little XML and JS snippets, and then interpreting them, has to be a drain on the CPU moreso than a fully native app…
I don’t know about the hibernation issues (I’ve never hibernated my laptop), but startup times for Firefox always annoyed me.
Firefox Preloader (which was listed on Digg recently) keeps Firefox memory resident, meaning vastly improved FF load times (the equiv. of “Quick Launch Enabled” on the full Mozilla suite). Of course you’d want to unload it from the preloader as well before hibernation, otherwise you’ll have the same problem.
Preloader:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/
XUL and the performance thing:
http://xulplanet.com[...]e/2003/2/17/
Perhaps I’m missing something, how does that address my issue?
I too have experienced the problem which the originalposter described. When I looked, it turned out that Firefox 1.5 was using 97% – 99% of the CPU. It took about 7 minutes to rfinish whatever it was doing. I know becuase I continued to monitor it. I am running XP Professional on a Thinkpad R51. I will figure out something to get around this but would like to know what is going on.
Check https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265172
I did a little research and left comments #15 and #16. I have the same problem and it’s maddening. Many people here are confusing this issue with the “trim on minimize” interaction with suspend/hibernate/resume but the observed behavior is different if you read the reports carefully. The cause seems to be linked to Flash.