Not sure if this is the place for this. I just installed Firefox, and everything seems to “stick”. If I scroll down with the scroll bar, my cursor moves down, and after a second or two, the scroll bar follows. If I try to move the window, again, it takes a second. I’m writing this in Chrome btw. I just went back to Firefox after scrolling down, and the whole page is black and nothing works. Task Manager says it’s running, Resource Monitor says it has 19 threads with 2 cpu, while Chrome has 34 threads with 0.48 cpu. Weird. I’m not sure what my question is, but because of the forum, I’ll ask, what is going on here?
Thought I’d make one more check, and now Firefox seems fine…except that it just died.
How much RAM do you have? What kind of CPU? This happens to me in Firefox sometimes, but only after I’ve had a lot of tabs open for a really long time. I think it’s due to memory leaks in the browser. I’m too dependent on a multitude of FFox extensions to make the switch, but it’d be nice to switch to a browser without these issues.
I’m not sure of RAM or CPU. I’d have to look that up at home. This happens for me as soon as I open it. Whatever RAM or CPU I have though, it’s plenty for Chrome. The only reason I’m using Firefox is for some reason, Words with Friends doesn’t work in Chrome, so I tried it in FF. Works fine there…
One difference between Firefox and Chrome is that the former uses hardware acceleration. Perhaps turning that off will help. It’s under the Advanced tab in the Options (Firefox > Options or Tools > Options, depending on what OS you use.) Disable “Use hardware acceleration if available” and restart Firefox.
(Chrome 18 has hardware acceleration, but it’s a different kind than the one Firefox uses, I believe.)
