Firefox SLOW on Lenovo laptop

[smhardesty]

Hey, Jerry. I don't consider my laptops to be slow machines. You can check the hardware on this machine below. I realize that older, slower PCs can't run a lot of Linux distros and/or apps successfully, but I certainly wouldn't think either of my laptops fit that description quite yet. Maybe one of you guys sees a problem with my hardware configuration that would explain Firefox running so slowly.

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System:    Host: steve-Lenovo-G50-45 Kernel: 4.4.0-89-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine:   System: LENOVO product: 80E3 v: Lenovo G50-45
           Mobo: LENOVO model: Lancer 5B2 v: 31900058 WIN
           Bios: LENOVO v: A2CN27WW(V1.09) date: 12/12/2014
CPU:       Quad core AMD A8-6410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 1600 MHz 2: 1200 MHz 3: 1200 MHz
           4: 1200 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD MULLINS (DRM 2.43.0 / 4.4.0-89-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-89-generic
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6164 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
           driver: ath10k_pci
           IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: d0:53:49:ce:0e:97
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: em1 state: down mac: 68:f7:28:6d:07:6c
           Card-3: Atheros
           IF: null-if-id state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (4.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST1000LM024_HN size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 24G used: 5.2G (23%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: /home size: 886G used: 25G (3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 8.39GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-4: swap-2 size: 0.45GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram0
           ID-5: swap-3 size: 0.45GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram1
           ID-6: swap-4 size: 0.45GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram2
           ID-7: swap-5 size: 0.45GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram3
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 41.4C mobo: N/A gpu: 41.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 189 Uptime: 11 min Memory: 691.4/3412.2MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35

[Jerry]

I'm using the 57.0a1 nightly now and it is snappier. May not make much of a difference to those on slower machines, but it would be interesting to see how it performs for you.

[Jerry]

Good things are coming re. Firefox...

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/firefox-55-quantum-flow-tabs

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/download-firefox-57-nightly

[Ottawagrant]

A lot of us are doing tests on the Beta of Linux Lite 3.6. So to be fair I'm using Firefox, because it's a default program & that's what ya gotta use for testing beta's. On a fresh install of Linux Lite uninstalling Firefox & installing another web browser is one of the first things I do. But along with my HP & Acer NVidia, I was testing LL 3.6 on an Acer Aspire netbook. It worked quite well for a netbook. . . except Firefox. I just couldn't take it anymore & wiped the drive, & put on Fatdog64 until the release candidate of LL comes out at the end of the month. What's sad is that Firefox used to be so good.

[Artim]

I too am a big fan of Seamonkey.  I think I've said so before on these forums, but Seamonkey has thousands fewer lines of code than Firefox, yet it has replaced both Firefox and Thunderbird on my computer.  It's speedy and nimble and full-featured.

[rokytnji]

Just for grins

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harry@misohorny1:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: misohorny1 Kernel: 4.4.0-linuxlite i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.4)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.11.8 (Gtk 2.24.23) Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Machine:   System: Dell product: OptiPlex 755
           Mobo: Dell model: 0GM819 Bios: Dell v: A11 date: 08/04/2008
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E6550 (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9309
           clock speeds: max: 2333 MHz 1: 2000 MHz 2: 2000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
           Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
           GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.66 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Card-2 Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-linuxlite
Network:   Card: Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection
           driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: ecc0 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2000.4GB (0.9% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2003FYPS size: 2000.4GB

Screenshot of htop below. I used http://postimages.org/  and used copy on the the far right of the "hotlink for forums" and then pasted it in this post.

[rokytnji]

I've been using seamonkey myself for years. Firefox is not slow on my I5 , 12 gig of ram Lenovo.  You might wanna post

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inxi -F
on both of your lenovos in this thread as a info share for others to respond to this thread.

Sounds like CPU is being hammered for what ever reason ON your lenovos.
IN terminal.

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htop
would give some info on my statement above.  Only gear I have where blink based. And Firefox crawl on. Are my single atom netbooks and my Pentium 3 IBM T23 with a savage graphics chip. I run thge open source driver vesa on the T23. Newer xorg release and savage, openchrome, and sis linux drivers did not play well together back when I installed AntiX on it.

The story on those drivers may be different now < with xorg > . But I don't care and can live on how I have my gear set up.

[smhardesty]

My wife had been complaining about how slow Firefox was on her Lenovo laptop. I had experienced the same problem on my Lenovo and had made the switch to SeaMonkey. Yesterday I finally took the time to check her laptop out. It wasn't just slow. It was excruciatingly slow. Moving the mouse cursor over an item took 2 - 3 seconds for it to highlight, then took another 2 - 3 seconds to respond after clicking. Loading web pages was also unbearably slow. So I went ahead and installed SeaMonkey. Guys, it was the difference between night and day. I can't fully explain just how much faster SeaMonkey is on that laptop. I'm not promoting SeaMonkey here. I'm trying to point out that there is some problem with Firefox. I don't know if it's something that is only apparent with Lenovo laptops, certain video cards, just the configuration of my Lenovos, or what. What I can say is that if you are running Firefox and it seems slow to you, you might want to consider installing a different web browser. If you happen to really Firefox, but think it's too slow, you can install SeaMonkey, then add the Sea Fox extension and the Classic Firefox Theme For SeaMonkey extension and you'll end up with basically Firefox. No, there are a few differences, but basic layout and functions are close to the same.