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Slow performance with Foxmarks and Firefox 3.0.5?
I recently noticed a significant slowdown in system performance when using FIrefox and Foxmarks on Windows Vista. I installed Foxmarks 2.6.0 and Firefox 3.0.5 on a brand new Windows Vista installation and the system performance when trying to use the browser was horrible. I tried Foxmarks 2.6.2 and the problem was still there.
I tried the same combination (Vista, FIrefox 3.0.5, and Foxmarks) on another clean installation in a virtual machine under Parallels (on Mac OS X) and the same thing occurred. Trying to run Firefox with Foxmarks brought the system to a crawl. Upon uninstalling Foxmarks, the snappy performance of Firefox and Windows came back. Is anyone else experiencing performance problems with Foxmarks and Firefox 3.0.5?
I tried the same combination (Vista, FIrefox 3.0.5, and Foxmarks) on another clean installation in a virtual machine under Parallels (on Mac OS X) and the same thing occurred. Trying to run Firefox with Foxmarks brought the system to a crawl. Upon uninstalling Foxmarks, the snappy performance of Firefox and Windows came back. Is anyone else experiencing performance problems with Foxmarks and Firefox 3.0.5?
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Inappropriate?We get sporadic reports of performance issues due to installing Foxmarks, but we've had no luck replicating them on our end, and it seems to affect only a very small subset of Foxmarks users.
We're definitely open to any clues that can help us replicate the problem to allow us find the solution, but it's not even clear why Foxmarks would cause a continual system slowdown--the extension is mostly inactive within Firefox, only listening for events that Firefox publishes. Slowdown during synchronization, especially with very large bookmark collections, definitely makes sense, but slowdown outside of sync seems very strange.
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Inappropriate?I see this too -- it actually locks up Firefox. I have the password part turned off; I'm only using the bookmark part. It is the worst when Firefox first starts -- it is as if the live bookmarks are all loading (thus changing) while at the same time Foxmarks is updating and the both happening at the same time is death.
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Steve--that's interesting, I never thought to make a connection to Livemarks before. How many Livemarks do you have in your collection, roughly? -
About 70-80. Hope you guys don't try and sync all the items inside those...
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We only synchronize the URLs for Livemarks; the data inside is pulled down by each individual instance of Firefox. I'm hoping to collect 70-80 Livemarks to try to replicate this behavior--I kinda suspect, though, that it has something to do with both Foxmarks and Firefox trying to update the bookmark store at the same time (Livemark settings do seem to be persisted from session to session, so if Firefox happened to be downloading the RSS feeds at the same time that Foxmarks is updating, that might explain things).
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Inappropriate?Right, just to confirm this. Had been frustrated with firefox's performance recently. I thought it had to do with the fancy address bar searching my web history or something like that, but simply disabling foxmarks has made the browser perform fast as usual.
I use firefox 3.0.5 and foxmarks 2.6.0 on Vista and XP, both have this issue.
I’m disabling foxmarks until this is fixed
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Inappropriate?Interesting ... but I think I solved the slow performance problem I was experiencing with Foxmarks. I have around 500 bookmarks stored locally on my Mac in Firefox. In trying several options to address the slow performance I noticed the "success" message (displayed after syncing up a new Foxmarks load) on the Firefox website said I had over 9000 bookmarks successfully synchronized. I completely wiped out the bookmarks on the server and refreshed everything, and performance now seems to be quite snappy once again on all platforms (Firefox, Safari, and IE).
I'm not sure how or why the server bookmarks got corrupted, but wiping them out and starting over fixed the performance problem I was seeing. What use to take several hours to synchronize now takes seconds.
Perhaps a message of some sort to compare the number of local and server based messages would be helpful in addressing this type of problem in the future.
I’m much better.
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Inappropriate?Hi
I have the same problem with only 200 bookmarks. Most of them are live bookmarks. I removed the foxmark add-in and still get the same performance issue every time firefox started. For the testing I removed my live bookmarks also, and that fixed my performance problems.
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Inappropriate?I'm also experiencing this problem.. This happens on each PC I have with FF + foxmarks. Also on Linux I noticed unusual slow down. I also have lot of Live Bookmarks so they probably might cause the problem.
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Keep on the good work guys.
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Inappropriate?i use latest Firefox and foxmarks, and it has dramatically slowed down general Firefox performance. The product installed fine but after enrolling in the service it slowed down, how often does it sync? -
Inappropriate?I just removed the RSS feed from Apple in my Mail application and Firefox 3.0.5 got really fast again. That was the only RSS feed I had, so I don't know if it's an Apple or Firefox problem. Using OSX 10.5.4 on Aluminum iMac.
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Inappropriate?I'd hoped to test this out thoroughly, but got sidetracked several times. Fortunately, a Foxmarks user reported a similar problem in another thread and noticed an interesting pattern:
http://getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks/t...
There seems to be something wherein Firefox updates all the Livemarks at once, possibly triggered by Foxmarks starting up synchronization. Does this match the symptoms the rest of you are seeing?
A little background for the curious: For Livemarks (aka RSS feed bookmarks), Foxmarks only synchronizes the feed_url that Firefox stores. The actual loading of the contents of the bookmark is done by each individual Firefox browser that uses that bookmark, so if you have a lot of Livemarks, then you'll probably experience high CPU load while they all load. This will happen after startup, but appears it might also trigger on Foxmarks synchronization.
It's possible there's something in the Firefox API we can use to not trigger this on sync, and it's also possible that Firefox might not have an ideal way of updating all Livemarks. We'll see if we can suss out the right answer from there, but for now it seems that having a lot of Livemarks will cause this behavior.1 Comment Add a comment
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Perhaps syncing live bookmarks in small chunks with delays is in order for the time being so the JS engine doesn't lock up...
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Inappropriate?Hello!
I installed Firefox 3.1 beta and all my problems disapeared. I really think the problems were in firefox and not in foxmarks.
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Inappropriate?As I explained in my poste and replied to Eric. I have the problem above on Window XP on a 2GB ram laptop and on Vista on a 3GB ram standup PC exactly the same issues 100% use of CPU and freezing that can last usually well into 15 or more minutes. I never wait it our my patience has limits. I have the latest of Firefox release ( is that the Beta?) on both machines and it still goes on. I am frustrated as I am told by friends its your fault you should NOT install Firefox add ons keep it clean and simple. But why are they made then? They are suppose to ease our Net lives I do have lots of bookmarks 3000+ that's because they are not lost anymore as before..and I revert to many again and again and make friends look into them . I must say I also back at NetVOUZ and dleicious to make sure if anything happens to Foxmark I wont be let down. Thanks for reading.
I’m frustrated as I am told by friends no to install Firefox add ons. But why are they made then. I
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vicarious1: I responded to your comments in the other topic you posted to. I suspect we can find the underlying cause there.
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Inappropriate?In general, I have problems running firefox 3+ on Windows Vista. The system simply crawls and I am using a DuoCore AMD chip on a HP Pavilion tx2000.
I have half a mind to switch to Chrome (inspite of the lack of extensions, that is the extent of my frustration) - and the experience has been much better.
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Inappropriate?I had a problem with Firefox 3 being slow, but it seems to have been solved by eliminating a bunch of old bookmarks.
Did you import some old bookmarks with the installation?
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