I'm not sure if this is specific to me, but after I upgraded to Firefox Portable 1.5, I'm getting these small, half-second, delays when I type or use the mouse in Firefox. For example, if I manually type in a URL, when I first click my mouse in the address bar, there will be a small delay and then when I start typing there will be a small delay. Also, when I click to select a bookmark, there will be a delay. It happens sporadically, but enough to be really annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm using Windows XP Home, with 1GB of RAM. I'm also using the Qute theme and I have the following extensions installed:
Flat Style 0.9.9.23
BugMeNot 0.9
IE Tab 1.0.6.4
ColorZilla 0.8.3.1
Adblock 0.5.2.039
Restart Firefox 0.3
LinkPreview 2.1
SessionSaver .2
LinkPreview and SessionSaver are the only two new extensions I installed since upgrading. Thanks for any help.
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It could be your settings (if you enabled history, etc) or it could be your drive. Speed of portable apps is *heavily* depended on the speed of the flash RAM within your portable device. The slowest ones take on the order of 50 times longer to write small files (most common with portable apps) than the fastest ones. See what I mean here:
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2549&p=26
Try disabling cookies, that may gain you a bit. Or buy a better device.
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You both have Session Saver and IE Tab. I think one of them has the problem.
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Shaman
Well, I have neither of those extensions but I experience the same 1-2 second delay every single time I manage bookmarks. Moving, renaming, adding, deleting, etc. causes a 1-2 second delay. Everything else works fine, and I have 13 different extensions running.
Unless you have a good drive. Bookmarks does a lot of writing. And flash ram is slow to write to. Unless you paid a premium for a good drive, it will just be slow.
This illustrates the differences between a "regular" drive with very poor write performance and a good one:
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2549&p=26
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