What exactly is loading when you experience the lag? I'm not a firefox user but shouldn't it display something like "waiting for [something]"?
Mm, no, the bottom says "Done" which means they're done loading the page. Everything is just heavily delayed and laggy. Scrolling isn't smooth, typing takes forever for it to appear, and stuff like that. So I don't think it's something that isn't loading.
Checking task manager, it does eat away at my CPU consistently just keep a tab open. Memory hikes up quite a bit but always comes back down. I don't have this problem on my FFXIV board that I visit which is also run on Curse. To type, I have to type in a notepad and copy+paste it into a reply box, otherwise it takes years for the letters to pop up.
The lag seems to appear on all pages: front page, forum pages, and even in the reply page.
EDIT: I seemed to have found what is causing the site to lag for FF. It's not an add-on, but a plugin. When I disabled Shockwave Flash, my CPU usage dropped to pretty much nothing and the site works normally again. I'm not entirely sure what this means, since this is the only site that seems to have the problem. Do ads on diablofans use shockwave or something?
It is listed as Shockwave Flash 10.1.102.64 or 10.1 r102
It shouldn't be an issue with the ads if you can visit FFXIVCore without issues, as far as I know, we have the same exact ads running. Do you notice if it happens all the time, or only sometimes? And if it's only sometimes, can you take note of the ad for me?
Well I've disabled Shockwave Flash already, so the site is running normally now and I can still see the ads. I think it may be something else that runs on flash in the background? It was taking up a good amount of CPU power to keep a DFans tab open; memory also hiked to ~150k or so then drop back to ~60k or so.
The lag starts about 2-5 seconds after a page is fully loaded and, as far as I could tell, happens 100% of the time when I have Shockwave Flash enabled. Problem started probably within the past week. I'm unsure whether or not this started before or after FF and/or Flash was updated. To my knowledge, Flash hasn't been updated recently. FF seems to auto-update, so I haven't really kept track of when it last updated.
Hope that helps.
Edit: Sorry, just kidding. I can't see the ads w/o enabling SF.
Edit2: Uhm, okay so I refreshed a bunch of pages and opened multiple tabs on DFans. For the most part, with SF disabled, the top and bottom ads are missing. It's just empty space. But occasionally, some of the pages DO display an ad. I have another tab open from the front page that shows a Progressive ad at the top, and a grey box for the bottom tab. However, I have a second tab open with the same front page, and both ads are missing. So.. I'm unsure whether or not still this is a problem with Flash ads.. I'll reload FFXIVCore pages a few times with Flash enabled and disabled to see if I run into any problems.
Edit3: I have the same lag issue with FFXIVCore but ONLY on their front page with Flash enabled. Forums works fine with Flash enabled. As for DFans, I get the lag 100% of the time, regardless of front page or forum pages with Flash enabled.
Started about a week ago maybe. Whenever I come here my browser goes to hell. I tried updating adobe flash but it didn't help, disabling the shockwave works though. I don't understand, weird!!!
I used to use Firefox but then it started crashing heaps so I upgraded to Chrome. Haven't had any issues with Chrome except when I first installed it tabs would go over my "minimise" "maximise" and "close" buttons. I found a fix on the net though.
Disabling Shockwave definitely helps. The funny thing though is that, after disabling Shockwave, my Zune software (which has been considerably laggy) actually snapped back to normal. I used to think that it was a Zune server issue, but I think Shockwave works my computer to death if I have Mozilla up and another application.
I don't know, Adobe...
Edit: I shouldn't say "helps." I should say "completely fixes the problem", but I'll knock on wood just in case.
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Shockwave Flash is now version 10.2.153.1, or 10.2 r153, but I am still having the same problem with it enabled.
Could it be my Firefox version? I had not checked it until now, and apparently I am using version 3.6.16.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit version.
As of right now, I'm fine with temporarily disabling Shockwave Flash when browsing DFans. No rush to fix it but would be nice to have it fixed soon. I can try to provide more info if needed, but having others providing info would be more useful to cross-check versions; could be a combination of things?
It might be an issue with the new firefox and the Adobe Flash player plug-in. I would report this to Firefox Bug Forum.
I am checking there to see if it is reported.
Nothing found yet.
I did some goggling and it is likely that when the flash player uses too much memory then the extra memory goes to the firefox process and that will likely lead to a crash.
Someone suggested to disable the firebug program
Tools>Add-ons>Extensions
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Ah, not sure if something changed overnight, but it seems to be working fine now(See edit). I have Shockwave Flash enabled and can see 95% of the ads(sometimes bottom ad is MIA). I'm seeing more ads now: mostly Rift, LotR Online, and D&D Online ones. Could have been a problem with those? Unsure, but for whatever reason, they are displaying now and Firefox is no longer lagging and consuming resources.
Thanks for the help everyone!
Edit: It seems to be working MOST of the time now. I browsed a few forum threads and hit upon one that didn't show ads but had the old symptoms of resource consumption and lag. Had to disable Shockwave Flash to navigate away.
Same here, I read your comment and decided to go enable shockwave to see if it would work for me and it was already enabled. Everything seems to have gone back to normal. :thumbsup:
Checking task manager, it does eat away at my CPU consistently just keep a tab open. Memory hikes up quite a bit but always comes back down. I don't have this problem on my FFXIV board that I visit which is also run on Curse. To type, I have to type in a notepad and copy+paste it into a reply box, otherwise it takes years for the letters to pop up.
The lag seems to appear on all pages: front page, forum pages, and even in the reply page.
EDIT: I seemed to have found what is causing the site to lag for FF. It's not an add-on, but a plugin. When I disabled Shockwave Flash, my CPU usage dropped to pretty much nothing and the site works normally again. I'm not entirely sure what this means, since this is the only site that seems to have the problem. Do ads on diablofans use shockwave or something?
It is listed as Shockwave Flash 10.1.102.64 or 10.1 r102
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I can still see the ads. I think it may be something else that runs on flash in the background? It was taking up a good amount of CPU power to keep a DFans tab open; memory also hiked to ~150k or so then drop back to ~60k or so.The lag starts about 2-5 seconds after a page is fully loaded and, as far as I could tell, happens 100% of the time when I have Shockwave Flash enabled. Problem started probably within the past week. I'm unsure whether or not this started before or after FF and/or Flash was updated. To my knowledge, Flash hasn't been updated recently. FF seems to auto-update, so I haven't really kept track of when it last updated.
Hope that helps.
Edit: Sorry, just kidding. I can't see the ads w/o enabling SF.
Edit2: Uhm, okay so I refreshed a bunch of pages and opened multiple tabs on DFans. For the most part, with SF disabled, the top and bottom ads are missing. It's just empty space. But occasionally, some of the pages DO display an ad. I have another tab open from the front page that shows a Progressive ad at the top, and a grey box for the bottom tab. However, I have a second tab open with the same front page, and both ads are missing. So.. I'm unsure whether or not still this is a problem with Flash ads.. I'll reload FFXIVCore pages a few times with Flash enabled and disabled to see if I run into any problems.
Edit3: I have the same lag issue with FFXIVCore but ONLY on their front page with Flash enabled. Forums works fine with Flash enabled. As for DFans, I get the lag 100% of the time, regardless of front page or forum pages with Flash enabled.
Started about a week ago maybe. Whenever I come here my browser goes to hell. I tried updating adobe flash but it didn't help, disabling the shockwave works though. I don't understand, weird!!!
I don't know, Adobe...
Edit: I shouldn't say "helps." I should say "completely fixes the problem", but I'll knock on wood just in case.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
Could it be my Firefox version? I had not checked it until now, and apparently I am using version 3.6.16.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit version.
As of right now, I'm fine with temporarily disabling Shockwave Flash when browsing DFans. No rush to fix it but would be nice to have it fixed soon. I can try to provide more info if needed, but having others providing info would be more useful to cross-check versions; could be a combination of things?
I am checking there to see if it is reported.
Nothing found yet.
I did some goggling and it is likely that when the flash player uses too much memory then the extra memory goes to the firefox process and that will likely lead to a crash.
Someone suggested to disable the firebug program
Tools>Add-ons>Extensions
working fine now(See edit). I have Shockwave Flash enabled and can see 95% of the ads(sometimes bottom ad is MIA). I'm seeing more ads now: mostly Rift, LotR Online, and D&D Online ones. Could have been a problem with those? Unsure, but for whatever reason, they are displaying now and Firefox is no longer lagging and consuming resources.Thanks for the help everyone!
Edit: It seems to be working MOST of the time now. I browsed a few forum threads and hit upon one that didn't show ads but had the old symptoms of resource consumption and lag. Had to disable Shockwave Flash to navigate away.
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