Thread: Need some Tech help :-(

Not only an SRP "problem" but many of the web pages I frequent ...... I click a link and have to wait an inordinate length of time for the page to load. Running Linux 15 XFCE but it really doesn't matter. When I was running Mint or Ubuntu it was the same. I have a Pentium 4 and plenty of memory.

So now I find that if I right click and select stop/reload from the drop down menu the page will load immediately. I'm thinking I must have some sort of tracking stuff going on and I don't know how to shut it off. Browser is Mozilla Firefox, could it be a google thing slowing me down ?

Read today that Google went to 2048 bit encryption to make surveillance harder. May be that i what gives your comp trouble? And the pentium 4 processor possibly too.
The memory does not make the processor work faster, one core is one core.

You can run a page download analyzer to see what takes a long time. I don't remember off the top of my head, but may be firebug does that? I think yahoo had a browser plugin for that too.

Of course, you want something that runs on your computer, not one of those websites that do it because they'll measure what they see on their servers. If it is network connectivity issue they may not see it.

I'm running Mint and don't have that problem. Could it be a memory issue?

Firefox seems to run a bit slow for me and I've noticed some of that behavior you're talking about with it. Are you really attached to Firefox? If not, you might try the Chromium browser. You can find it in your distro's software repository so installing it is easy. It's basically the same as Chrome. I've noticed some websites (like those built with Microsoft products) don't work as well with Chrome or Chromium but for forums, it works better/faster than Firefox.

I've got my computer set up to do automatic updates. If I notice it is running slow, typically it means for me to re-boot the system so that the updates can go to work instead of sitting there & getting in the way. That's about the extent of my computer knowledge...

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Not only an SRP "problem" but many of the web pages I frequent ...... I click a link and have to wait an inordinate length of time for the page to load. Running Linux 15 XFCE but it really doesn't matter. When I was running Mint or Ubuntu it was the same. I have a Pentium 4 and plenty of memory.

So now I find that if I right click and select stop/reload from the drop down menu the page will load immediately. I'm thinking I must have some sort of tracking stuff going on and I don't know how to shut it off. Browser is Mozilla Firefox, could it be a google thing slowing me down ?

You're running Linux Mint 15, XFCE edition. Your Internet connection is an up to 3Mb/s DSL line, via AT&T (dba BellSouth). It's a "shared resource" (lots of other users on the DSLAM, all competing for a slice of the finite bandwidth pie), and there's latency throughout the internetwork. Most ISPs do provide varying degrees of QOS (Quality Of Service), depending on the customer's TOS (Type Of Service), and [y]our TOS/QOS is the lowest on their bandwidth-priority totem pole. Besides, you keep a pantload of tabs open, and many are trying to refresh the content at the same time.

One sure-fire way to eliminate user-caused browser-configuration problems is to create a "test" user on your system, log-in as that user, and then run your browser in a "fresh" environment (don't copy bookmarks, etc., from your regular user account). You might experience faster browsing... or not; but by doing so you'll take a big step toward reducing the number of possible causes for s-l-o-w l-o-a-d-i-n-g of webpages.

Did you get this fixed ??? I have been running Firefox for almost 10 years and I have found nothing faster or easier to fix. Updates is the first thing to check and mine is set to ask ( I hate auto anything because your trying to figure out what is going on until it says reboot), then I do. You only have to reboot Firefox and it puts it right back where you were before the reboot. Sometimes it changes things so I go check settings and add ons, save history, clear cache, etc. It sounds like your pages are not being saved in cache ? I run Windows XP pro and Xp pro 64 and had a triple boot with SUSE 10. I gave up Suse because it took too long to get into Windoz which had some software I needed frequently. I hope you solved this by now and I am just adding to my thread count. :<0) Mozzilla is great and has a lot of ways to fix itself with a small learning curve.

I hear comcast is making everyone get a new router. That may help some. We had the problem on another forum and for some reason the posts were sent to a very different route the caused a time lag which and caused a timeout ERROR 404
JimmyHad's post made it work for me on another forum last year.

So now I find that if I right click and select stop/reload from the drop down menu the page will load immediately. I'm thinking I must have some sort of tracking stuff going on and I don't know how to shut it off. Browser is Mozilla Firefox, could it be a google thing slowing me down ?

So the trouble seems usually to be in the route that your provider is using to complete your request and they do get into territory struggles with other providers as to fees etc. and have to re-route.