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Dashboard loading is very slow using Firefox 3

  1. diogofsr
    Member

    Is it just for me or the Dashboard area is painfully slow?

    I run it on Firefox 3 at a Linux box and I can literally click on "Post", go to the bathroom, grab a glass of water in the kitchen and come back in time to see the last stage of loading (sometimes not a full glass, but still).

    I have no past "Dashboard 2.7" experience as I started using WordPress less than a week ago but I had a sneak peek at my girlfriend's and I don't remember been this slow. Also, she told me that she indeed noticed a slow down.

    The frontend is actually ok with a normal loading. It is just the backstage area that is very slow.

  2. dquartermane
    Member

    I am running Firefox 3 on windows and it works fine for me. Just letting you know.

  3. diogofsr
    Member

    Thank you for your reply, dquartername.

    I just timed a "Post" action and caught a 1'01''.

    I asked my girlfriend to do such a thing and, although I didn't times it, it went much more faster (maybe 5-10 seconds?).

    She is using it with Firefox 3.0.4 at Ubunut 8.04.

    I am using Firefox 3.0.4 at Ubuntu 8.10. So, it appears to be happening just here.

    Anyone out there with a Ubuntu 8.10 box could say if is this happening with you too?

  4. diogofsr
    Member

    I forgot to mention that a have the 64 bits version of Ubuntu.

  5. thesacredpath
    Member

    If you have any addons in FF, try disabling them. I have in the past has adblockplus muck things up and slow things down. You might have to "whitelist" all of wordpress.COM.

  6. diogofsr
    Member

    More info.

    I tried with another computer with the same configuration (Firefox + Ubuntu) and it went ok.

    So, it appears to be definitely something here. Do you know what could it be?

    I erased my cache and cookies but it did no good in solving this problem.

  7. diogofsr
    Member

    Nice, thesacredpath!

    I disabled them all and everything started to work well. So, one by one, I enabled them trying to isolated the troublemaker. Now I have all of them - adblockplus included - enabled I the performance is nice. I was unable to locate the specific problem as disabling them all and then enabling them fixed the problem.

    Thank you very much. :-)

  8. diogofsr
    Member

    Unfortunately I stated "victory" too soon.

    After a while the agonizing performance went back.

    I will start investigating it trying to tweak "adblockplus" as advised by thesacredpath.

  9. diogofsr
    Member

    I restarted Firefox and the performance went ok again so, I think I cannot say that disabling and enabling the extensions has worked because each time I did that I did also a restart. So, restart was the real "solution".

    I added my blog to the adblockplus whitelist. I will continue using it to see with anything will melt apart again.

  10. diogofsr
    Member

    As I said, I tried whitelisting my blog. No good. Same result.

    Then, I tried disabling the adblockplus all-together - Man! There's a lot of ads in the web. No luck either.

    I am running out of ideas. My next shot would be delete the .mozilla directory (which is where the files about cookies, preferences and all are stored) but I really don't wanna lose all of that (bookmarks, passwords...).

    Someone?

  11. thesacredpath
    Member

    I don't know if it could be a profile issue or not. Firefox keeps all your settings, bookmarks, etc., in a "profile."

    http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles
    http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/profile-tutorial/

  12. thesacredpath
    Member

    Do you by chance have the wordpress "snow" feature running? It can severely slow things down since it is very processor intensive.

  13. thesacredpath
    Member

    Wait, forget the last, that doesn't show up on the admin pages.

  14. diogofsr
    Member

    No, I disabled that feature (snow) as it puts my scrolling ability to its knees.

  15. diogofsr
    Member

    Well, I deleted my .mozilla directory and the problem persist.

  16. rosclarke
    Member

    Are you running it in https mode? That does slow things down. You could try using Gears to speed things up again (I have had limited success with this).

  17. diogofsr
    Member

    The "https mode" was indeed on. I turned it off but the slowdown continues.

    It bugs me that the performance is ok in the early moments of a fresh start of Firefox but, as the time passes by, it becomes unbearable.

    The dirty fix for this is restarting Firefox every time I want to access the administration area or, much more important as it is the slowest of the actions, post or edit something.

    One question: The administration area, and more important, the post and edit area, load any flash application?

  18. veronikab
    Member

    diogofsr, have you solved the problem? I've noticed the same in the last few days. I am running Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows, but so I was before and everything was fine, even with the new Dashboard. The only FF addon I have is Oldbar.

  19. raul008
    Member

    Yeah, i disable Https but continue show this! :S

  20. diogofsr
    Member

    diogofsr, have you solved the problem? I've noticed the same in the last few days. I am running Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows, but so I was before and everything was fine, even with the new Dashboard. The only FF addon I have is Oldbar.

    Actually, I don't know.

    I started using another computer, ISP and internet connection (ADSL to Mobile) about a month ago and, because I was frustrated by this problem, I didn't access my blog so often.

    That being said, I do not experience this problem right now.

    I think that could be something related with the fact that in this computer I did not check the "https" function, as it do not show it in the address bar but, because so much variables have been changed, I cannot say for sure.

  21. veronikab
    Member

    Thanks for your reply.

    I've just tried from a 64bit RedHat machine (FF3 again) and it's the same story. So tt looks like it's not my system but the WordPress servers. I use the secure connection too, but I will not switch that off even if it turned out to be the problem.

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