Firefox 63 slow page load?
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My System: I have an I7-4790k cpu and a fast connection (low latency/ping 33 e.g. to amazon.de, enough traffic bandwidth 32 Mbps). I'm using Firefox 63 stable which uses all my cores.
Problem: Still, when I load an page like www.mediamarkt.de it doesn't load as fast as, bam. What is the problem, why isn't it faster? You can see in the picture, that "Aktuelle topseller" shift later to the correct position and later the text font is changed.
Why doesn't this happen at once?
Possible explanation? Is my CPU not fast enough, does Firefox load resources sequentially?
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My System: I have an I7-4790k cpu and a fast connection (low latency/ping 33 e.g. to amazon.de, enough traffic bandwidth 32 Mbps). I'm using Firefox 63 stable which uses all my cores.
Problem: Still, when I load an page like www.mediamarkt.de it doesn't load as fast as, bam. What is the problem, why isn't it faster? You can see in the picture, that "Aktuelle topseller" shift later to the correct position and later the text font is changed.
Why doesn't this happen at once?
Possible explanation? Is my CPU not fast enough, does Firefox load resources sequentially?
firefox cpu performance
Do other browsers load the page faster? Does the page still load slowly with a new browser profile?
– dsstorefile1
Nov 7 at 13:59
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My System: I have an I7-4790k cpu and a fast connection (low latency/ping 33 e.g. to amazon.de, enough traffic bandwidth 32 Mbps). I'm using Firefox 63 stable which uses all my cores.
Problem: Still, when I load an page like www.mediamarkt.de it doesn't load as fast as, bam. What is the problem, why isn't it faster? You can see in the picture, that "Aktuelle topseller" shift later to the correct position and later the text font is changed.
Why doesn't this happen at once?
Possible explanation? Is my CPU not fast enough, does Firefox load resources sequentially?
firefox cpu performance
My System: I have an I7-4790k cpu and a fast connection (low latency/ping 33 e.g. to amazon.de, enough traffic bandwidth 32 Mbps). I'm using Firefox 63 stable which uses all my cores.
Problem: Still, when I load an page like www.mediamarkt.de it doesn't load as fast as, bam. What is the problem, why isn't it faster? You can see in the picture, that "Aktuelle topseller" shift later to the correct position and later the text font is changed.
Why doesn't this happen at once?
Possible explanation? Is my CPU not fast enough, does Firefox load resources sequentially?
firefox cpu performance
firefox cpu performance
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Do other browsers load the page faster? Does the page still load slowly with a new browser profile?
– dsstorefile1
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Do other browsers load the page faster? Does the page still load slowly with a new browser profile?
– dsstorefile1
Nov 7 at 13:59
Do other browsers load the page faster? Does the page still load slowly with a new browser profile?
– dsstorefile1
Nov 7 at 13:59
Do other browsers load the page faster? Does the page still load slowly with a new browser profile?
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I encountered the exact same problem after installing Firefox 63 on two Windows 10 machines residing on my home network, and my online research found the following:
Firefox 63 is slow at loading new pages
Found the reason for this behavior. For some reason the new version
puts the proxy settings so that the "Auto-detect proxy settings for
this network" is enabled. This makes it so that every page load it
tries to first find a proxy, which takes seconds, and after that loads
the page. Switched the setting back to No Proxy and everything is nice
and fast again.
This seemed to be confirmed in a pair of official "bugzilla" reports:
Version 63 very slow performance, proxy set to "use system default" - fixed if set to "no proxy"
Firefox checks to determine proxy settings on every request - RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 64
As a result, their recommended fix action is as follows:
- Within Firefox, navigate to the
about:preferences
page - In the default
General
section view, scroll to the bottom to find theNetwork Settings
area - Click on the
Settings...
button
In the subsequent window, select the radio button to modify the settings under
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
to choose No proxy
However, although this solution apparently worked for several people, in my personal experience the problem persisted even after I changed my settings to No proxy. One of the Mozilla contributors recommended installing the Firefox 64 "Nightly" version to see if that eliminated the issue and it did for some users, but I'm not really a big fan of Beta software on my primary computers.
As an alternate solution, I uninstalled Firefox 63 on one of my computers, installed Firefox 60.3.0 ESR, and that alleviated the problem. Web page navigation and downloads were as fast as they were in Firefox 62. Also, please remember that a transition like this one is relatively painless, because your Firefox personal data is preserved in another location.
I left Firefox 63.0.1 installed on my secondary computer for ongoing testing purposes. When Firefox 64 is released to the general public in December, I will double-check to ensure that the problem has been alleviated.
Update
Mozilla has apparently addressed this issue in their latest update that increments the mainstream iteration of Firefox to version 63.0.3:
I tried this solution (no proxy), and I have the impression, that it is now slightly faster. Thank you. (I won't single"accept" this answer yet, though i upvoted it, because I'm searching for as many solutions as there are to get firefox page load faster :)) I also tried settingnetwork.tcp.tcp_fastopen_enable
to true. I think this also increased page load performance on some sites (less tcp overhead). Can you confirm that as well?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:19
@SearchSpace theNo proxy
solution, or installing Firefox 60 ESR, instead?
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:22
No, you don't get notified when someone edits a comment... only when they are posted. That being said, as I mentioned within my answer, theNo proxy
solution didn't actually work for me, and there is a known issued with that particular version of Firefox. That's why I ultimately decided to drop back to the ESR version of the browser, and my downloads started working normally again. Prior to that, every-other-download would fail.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:25
Ah ok, thanks. First comment was edited. Btw. as I understand it: There are less chances to make load faster with more connections, because due to http2 the idea seems to be, to just have one connection, which transfers all data. I couldn't find out yet, if there are options to instruct firefox to load all elements parallely in this one connection (or if this is by default). Btw. do you have an powerful processor, does firefox utilize all your cores?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:30
Actually, both my laptop and desktop have mediocre hardware specs: an Intel quad-core i7 with 8 GB of RAM. Nothing special.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:31
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I encountered the exact same problem after installing Firefox 63 on two Windows 10 machines residing on my home network, and my online research found the following:
Firefox 63 is slow at loading new pages
Found the reason for this behavior. For some reason the new version
puts the proxy settings so that the "Auto-detect proxy settings for
this network" is enabled. This makes it so that every page load it
tries to first find a proxy, which takes seconds, and after that loads
the page. Switched the setting back to No Proxy and everything is nice
and fast again.
This seemed to be confirmed in a pair of official "bugzilla" reports:
Version 63 very slow performance, proxy set to "use system default" - fixed if set to "no proxy"
Firefox checks to determine proxy settings on every request - RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 64
As a result, their recommended fix action is as follows:
- Within Firefox, navigate to the
about:preferences
page - In the default
General
section view, scroll to the bottom to find theNetwork Settings
area - Click on the
Settings...
button
In the subsequent window, select the radio button to modify the settings under
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
to choose No proxy
However, although this solution apparently worked for several people, in my personal experience the problem persisted even after I changed my settings to No proxy. One of the Mozilla contributors recommended installing the Firefox 64 "Nightly" version to see if that eliminated the issue and it did for some users, but I'm not really a big fan of Beta software on my primary computers.
As an alternate solution, I uninstalled Firefox 63 on one of my computers, installed Firefox 60.3.0 ESR, and that alleviated the problem. Web page navigation and downloads were as fast as they were in Firefox 62. Also, please remember that a transition like this one is relatively painless, because your Firefox personal data is preserved in another location.
I left Firefox 63.0.1 installed on my secondary computer for ongoing testing purposes. When Firefox 64 is released to the general public in December, I will double-check to ensure that the problem has been alleviated.
Update
Mozilla has apparently addressed this issue in their latest update that increments the mainstream iteration of Firefox to version 63.0.3:
I tried this solution (no proxy), and I have the impression, that it is now slightly faster. Thank you. (I won't single"accept" this answer yet, though i upvoted it, because I'm searching for as many solutions as there are to get firefox page load faster :)) I also tried settingnetwork.tcp.tcp_fastopen_enable
to true. I think this also increased page load performance on some sites (less tcp overhead). Can you confirm that as well?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:19
@SearchSpace theNo proxy
solution, or installing Firefox 60 ESR, instead?
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:22
No, you don't get notified when someone edits a comment... only when they are posted. That being said, as I mentioned within my answer, theNo proxy
solution didn't actually work for me, and there is a known issued with that particular version of Firefox. That's why I ultimately decided to drop back to the ESR version of the browser, and my downloads started working normally again. Prior to that, every-other-download would fail.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:25
Ah ok, thanks. First comment was edited. Btw. as I understand it: There are less chances to make load faster with more connections, because due to http2 the idea seems to be, to just have one connection, which transfers all data. I couldn't find out yet, if there are options to instruct firefox to load all elements parallely in this one connection (or if this is by default). Btw. do you have an powerful processor, does firefox utilize all your cores?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:30
Actually, both my laptop and desktop have mediocre hardware specs: an Intel quad-core i7 with 8 GB of RAM. Nothing special.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:31
add a comment |
up vote
4
down vote
I encountered the exact same problem after installing Firefox 63 on two Windows 10 machines residing on my home network, and my online research found the following:
Firefox 63 is slow at loading new pages
Found the reason for this behavior. For some reason the new version
puts the proxy settings so that the "Auto-detect proxy settings for
this network" is enabled. This makes it so that every page load it
tries to first find a proxy, which takes seconds, and after that loads
the page. Switched the setting back to No Proxy and everything is nice
and fast again.
This seemed to be confirmed in a pair of official "bugzilla" reports:
Version 63 very slow performance, proxy set to "use system default" - fixed if set to "no proxy"
Firefox checks to determine proxy settings on every request - RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 64
As a result, their recommended fix action is as follows:
- Within Firefox, navigate to the
about:preferences
page - In the default
General
section view, scroll to the bottom to find theNetwork Settings
area - Click on the
Settings...
button
In the subsequent window, select the radio button to modify the settings under
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
to choose No proxy
However, although this solution apparently worked for several people, in my personal experience the problem persisted even after I changed my settings to No proxy. One of the Mozilla contributors recommended installing the Firefox 64 "Nightly" version to see if that eliminated the issue and it did for some users, but I'm not really a big fan of Beta software on my primary computers.
As an alternate solution, I uninstalled Firefox 63 on one of my computers, installed Firefox 60.3.0 ESR, and that alleviated the problem. Web page navigation and downloads were as fast as they were in Firefox 62. Also, please remember that a transition like this one is relatively painless, because your Firefox personal data is preserved in another location.
I left Firefox 63.0.1 installed on my secondary computer for ongoing testing purposes. When Firefox 64 is released to the general public in December, I will double-check to ensure that the problem has been alleviated.
Update
Mozilla has apparently addressed this issue in their latest update that increments the mainstream iteration of Firefox to version 63.0.3:
I tried this solution (no proxy), and I have the impression, that it is now slightly faster. Thank you. (I won't single"accept" this answer yet, though i upvoted it, because I'm searching for as many solutions as there are to get firefox page load faster :)) I also tried settingnetwork.tcp.tcp_fastopen_enable
to true. I think this also increased page load performance on some sites (less tcp overhead). Can you confirm that as well?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:19
@SearchSpace theNo proxy
solution, or installing Firefox 60 ESR, instead?
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:22
No, you don't get notified when someone edits a comment... only when they are posted. That being said, as I mentioned within my answer, theNo proxy
solution didn't actually work for me, and there is a known issued with that particular version of Firefox. That's why I ultimately decided to drop back to the ESR version of the browser, and my downloads started working normally again. Prior to that, every-other-download would fail.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:25
Ah ok, thanks. First comment was edited. Btw. as I understand it: There are less chances to make load faster with more connections, because due to http2 the idea seems to be, to just have one connection, which transfers all data. I couldn't find out yet, if there are options to instruct firefox to load all elements parallely in this one connection (or if this is by default). Btw. do you have an powerful processor, does firefox utilize all your cores?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:30
Actually, both my laptop and desktop have mediocre hardware specs: an Intel quad-core i7 with 8 GB of RAM. Nothing special.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:31
add a comment |
up vote
4
down vote
up vote
4
down vote
I encountered the exact same problem after installing Firefox 63 on two Windows 10 machines residing on my home network, and my online research found the following:
Firefox 63 is slow at loading new pages
Found the reason for this behavior. For some reason the new version
puts the proxy settings so that the "Auto-detect proxy settings for
this network" is enabled. This makes it so that every page load it
tries to first find a proxy, which takes seconds, and after that loads
the page. Switched the setting back to No Proxy and everything is nice
and fast again.
This seemed to be confirmed in a pair of official "bugzilla" reports:
Version 63 very slow performance, proxy set to "use system default" - fixed if set to "no proxy"
Firefox checks to determine proxy settings on every request - RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 64
As a result, their recommended fix action is as follows:
- Within Firefox, navigate to the
about:preferences
page - In the default
General
section view, scroll to the bottom to find theNetwork Settings
area - Click on the
Settings...
button
In the subsequent window, select the radio button to modify the settings under
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
to choose No proxy
However, although this solution apparently worked for several people, in my personal experience the problem persisted even after I changed my settings to No proxy. One of the Mozilla contributors recommended installing the Firefox 64 "Nightly" version to see if that eliminated the issue and it did for some users, but I'm not really a big fan of Beta software on my primary computers.
As an alternate solution, I uninstalled Firefox 63 on one of my computers, installed Firefox 60.3.0 ESR, and that alleviated the problem. Web page navigation and downloads were as fast as they were in Firefox 62. Also, please remember that a transition like this one is relatively painless, because your Firefox personal data is preserved in another location.
I left Firefox 63.0.1 installed on my secondary computer for ongoing testing purposes. When Firefox 64 is released to the general public in December, I will double-check to ensure that the problem has been alleviated.
Update
Mozilla has apparently addressed this issue in their latest update that increments the mainstream iteration of Firefox to version 63.0.3:
I encountered the exact same problem after installing Firefox 63 on two Windows 10 machines residing on my home network, and my online research found the following:
Firefox 63 is slow at loading new pages
Found the reason for this behavior. For some reason the new version
puts the proxy settings so that the "Auto-detect proxy settings for
this network" is enabled. This makes it so that every page load it
tries to first find a proxy, which takes seconds, and after that loads
the page. Switched the setting back to No Proxy and everything is nice
and fast again.
This seemed to be confirmed in a pair of official "bugzilla" reports:
Version 63 very slow performance, proxy set to "use system default" - fixed if set to "no proxy"
Firefox checks to determine proxy settings on every request - RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 64
As a result, their recommended fix action is as follows:
- Within Firefox, navigate to the
about:preferences
page - In the default
General
section view, scroll to the bottom to find theNetwork Settings
area - Click on the
Settings...
button
In the subsequent window, select the radio button to modify the settings under
Configure Proxy Access to the Internet
to choose No proxy
However, although this solution apparently worked for several people, in my personal experience the problem persisted even after I changed my settings to No proxy. One of the Mozilla contributors recommended installing the Firefox 64 "Nightly" version to see if that eliminated the issue and it did for some users, but I'm not really a big fan of Beta software on my primary computers.
As an alternate solution, I uninstalled Firefox 63 on one of my computers, installed Firefox 60.3.0 ESR, and that alleviated the problem. Web page navigation and downloads were as fast as they were in Firefox 62. Also, please remember that a transition like this one is relatively painless, because your Firefox personal data is preserved in another location.
I left Firefox 63.0.1 installed on my secondary computer for ongoing testing purposes. When Firefox 64 is released to the general public in December, I will double-check to ensure that the problem has been alleviated.
Update
Mozilla has apparently addressed this issue in their latest update that increments the mainstream iteration of Firefox to version 63.0.3:
edited Nov 19 at 6:11
answered Nov 7 at 14:20
Run5k
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I tried this solution (no proxy), and I have the impression, that it is now slightly faster. Thank you. (I won't single"accept" this answer yet, though i upvoted it, because I'm searching for as many solutions as there are to get firefox page load faster :)) I also tried settingnetwork.tcp.tcp_fastopen_enable
to true. I think this also increased page load performance on some sites (less tcp overhead). Can you confirm that as well?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:19
@SearchSpace theNo proxy
solution, or installing Firefox 60 ESR, instead?
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:22
No, you don't get notified when someone edits a comment... only when they are posted. That being said, as I mentioned within my answer, theNo proxy
solution didn't actually work for me, and there is a known issued with that particular version of Firefox. That's why I ultimately decided to drop back to the ESR version of the browser, and my downloads started working normally again. Prior to that, every-other-download would fail.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:25
Ah ok, thanks. First comment was edited. Btw. as I understand it: There are less chances to make load faster with more connections, because due to http2 the idea seems to be, to just have one connection, which transfers all data. I couldn't find out yet, if there are options to instruct firefox to load all elements parallely in this one connection (or if this is by default). Btw. do you have an powerful processor, does firefox utilize all your cores?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:30
Actually, both my laptop and desktop have mediocre hardware specs: an Intel quad-core i7 with 8 GB of RAM. Nothing special.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:31
add a comment |
I tried this solution (no proxy), and I have the impression, that it is now slightly faster. Thank you. (I won't single"accept" this answer yet, though i upvoted it, because I'm searching for as many solutions as there are to get firefox page load faster :)) I also tried settingnetwork.tcp.tcp_fastopen_enable
to true. I think this also increased page load performance on some sites (less tcp overhead). Can you confirm that as well?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:19
@SearchSpace theNo proxy
solution, or installing Firefox 60 ESR, instead?
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:22
No, you don't get notified when someone edits a comment... only when they are posted. That being said, as I mentioned within my answer, theNo proxy
solution didn't actually work for me, and there is a known issued with that particular version of Firefox. That's why I ultimately decided to drop back to the ESR version of the browser, and my downloads started working normally again. Prior to that, every-other-download would fail.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:25
Ah ok, thanks. First comment was edited. Btw. as I understand it: There are less chances to make load faster with more connections, because due to http2 the idea seems to be, to just have one connection, which transfers all data. I couldn't find out yet, if there are options to instruct firefox to load all elements parallely in this one connection (or if this is by default). Btw. do you have an powerful processor, does firefox utilize all your cores?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:30
Actually, both my laptop and desktop have mediocre hardware specs: an Intel quad-core i7 with 8 GB of RAM. Nothing special.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:31
I tried this solution (no proxy), and I have the impression, that it is now slightly faster. Thank you. (I won't single"accept" this answer yet, though i upvoted it, because I'm searching for as many solutions as there are to get firefox page load faster :)) I also tried setting
network.tcp.tcp_fastopen_enable
to true. I think this also increased page load performance on some sites (less tcp overhead). Can you confirm that as well?– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:19
I tried this solution (no proxy), and I have the impression, that it is now slightly faster. Thank you. (I won't single"accept" this answer yet, though i upvoted it, because I'm searching for as many solutions as there are to get firefox page load faster :)) I also tried setting
network.tcp.tcp_fastopen_enable
to true. I think this also increased page load performance on some sites (less tcp overhead). Can you confirm that as well?– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:19
@SearchSpace the
No proxy
solution, or installing Firefox 60 ESR, instead?– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:22
@SearchSpace the
No proxy
solution, or installing Firefox 60 ESR, instead?– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:22
No, you don't get notified when someone edits a comment... only when they are posted. That being said, as I mentioned within my answer, the
No proxy
solution didn't actually work for me, and there is a known issued with that particular version of Firefox. That's why I ultimately decided to drop back to the ESR version of the browser, and my downloads started working normally again. Prior to that, every-other-download would fail.– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:25
No, you don't get notified when someone edits a comment... only when they are posted. That being said, as I mentioned within my answer, the
No proxy
solution didn't actually work for me, and there is a known issued with that particular version of Firefox. That's why I ultimately decided to drop back to the ESR version of the browser, and my downloads started working normally again. Prior to that, every-other-download would fail.– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:25
Ah ok, thanks. First comment was edited. Btw. as I understand it: There are less chances to make load faster with more connections, because due to http2 the idea seems to be, to just have one connection, which transfers all data. I couldn't find out yet, if there are options to instruct firefox to load all elements parallely in this one connection (or if this is by default). Btw. do you have an powerful processor, does firefox utilize all your cores?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:30
Ah ok, thanks. First comment was edited. Btw. as I understand it: There are less chances to make load faster with more connections, because due to http2 the idea seems to be, to just have one connection, which transfers all data. I couldn't find out yet, if there are options to instruct firefox to load all elements parallely in this one connection (or if this is by default). Btw. do you have an powerful processor, does firefox utilize all your cores?
– SearchSpace
Nov 7 at 20:30
Actually, both my laptop and desktop have mediocre hardware specs: an Intel quad-core i7 with 8 GB of RAM. Nothing special.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:31
Actually, both my laptop and desktop have mediocre hardware specs: an Intel quad-core i7 with 8 GB of RAM. Nothing special.
– Run5k
Nov 7 at 20:31
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Do other browsers load the page faster? Does the page still load slowly with a new browser profile?
– dsstorefile1
Nov 7 at 13:59