Firefox lags on PIII 933

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I used to run FF on an athlon 750@927mhz and never noticed the laggyness or 100% cpu spikes while FF is unresponsive for a short period of time.
I've tried the moox sse builds and it didn't help at all.
Box has 640 ram winxp sp2 and a via 694 chipset (tyan mobo).
 
radeonic2 said:
I used to run FF on an athlon 750@927mhz and never noticed the laggyness or 100% cpu spikes while FF is unresponsive for a short period of time.
I've tried the moox sse builds and it didn't help at all.
Box has 640 ram winxp sp2 and a via 694 chipset (tyan mobo).
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well, 640 Kilobytes of computer memory ought to be enough for anybody :)
since you care about responsiveness, how did Opera run on that machine?
 
FireFox is a resource hog (for a webbrowser). You can speed it up to (but it eats up CPU and Memory easily). I would say the most problematic area for you is the current CPU your using, I don't even know if the FireFox community has a set of Minimum Requirments but anything sub Ghz would probably be troublesome.
 
I'm sorry, but how does it have 640 ram?
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digitalwanderer said:
I'm sorry, but how does it have 640 ram?
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I would venture a guess that it is 640MB RAM:

512MB + 128MB = 640MB

256MB + 256MB + 128MB = 640MB

512MB + 64MB + 64MB = 640MB

256MB + 256MB + 64MB + 64MB = 640MB (that one was trickier to add up :p)

Maybe dual channel pairings are spooking you.
 
wireframe said:
512MB + 128MB = 640MB
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I just bought a stick of 512MB SDRAM. Installed it with my 128MB on my Mac and thats the exact number I have...its a very unconventional number for RAM.
 
wireframe said:
I would venture a guess that it is 640MB RAM:

512MB + 128MB = 640MB

256MB + 256MB + 128MB = 640MB

512MB + 64MB + 64MB = 640MB

256MB + 256MB + 64MB + 64MB = 640MB (that one was trickier to add up :p)

Maybe dual channel pairings are spooking you.
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Lemy check :LOL:
2x 256 and 1 128MB.
I used some ram from my old computer and it already had some, it was from my brother's work (he works in IT).
its not the ram ;) it's cpu usage that goes to 100% while doing certain things, like launching aimexpress spikes cpu usage for like 10 seconds or so and some webpages, like ati.com.
I am willing to bet opera will run smooth as silk, however I really like the extensions FF has.
Opera does it first then FF does it for free:)
But I used to run firefox, or what is now called firefox, on my 927mhz athlon socket a.
Perhaps FF is much more optimized for athlons?
 
I recently sorted out a neighbour's cable modem & router as well as their P3-800 & WinXP SP2 + Updates. Their motherboard is a Gigabyte Via 694 with 512MB RAM & Radeon 7200 32MB, so is similar to your setup. FF 1.06 vanilla (a few tweaks) runs well. Although FF is a hog, check your plugins. Some of these can be problematic. Also, some sites have scripts that load older PCs. AV or other background apps/services may also be causing your problems.
 
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