tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:/discussions/problems/435-facebookTenFourFox: Discussion 2014-09-04T12:27:36Ztag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-06T18:55:06Z2014-09-04T12:27:36ZFacebook<div><p>Should have mentioned this problem affects Aurora and SeaMonkey
too...same issues.</p></div>bruce.maryanntag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-06T19:05:17Z2013-08-06T19:06:54ZFacebook<div><p>Hello Bruce, did your problems start after updating TenFourFox,
or after installing a new add-on? I use Facebook very frequently,
and while it's indeed heavy on the JavaScript side, I've never seen
anything like you describe (I'm on a PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz). Your
G5 Quad should pretty much fly on Facebook, and I assume you have
enough RAM installed (>1.5 GB), so this shouldn't be the problem
either. I strongly supspect an add-on that interferes, so I'd
suggest disabling all ad-ons temporarily and see if this helps.</p></div>Chris (chtrusch)tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-06T20:57:42Z2014-09-04T12:27:36ZFacebook<div><p>Chris,<br>
This started prior to updating, machine has 6GB Ram and the only
add-on I<br>
had installed was the Quick Time Enabler which almost never worked
anyway,<br>
but which I¹d installed the same day I installed TenFourFox.
It is now<br>
disabled.<br>
Bruce</p></div>bruce.maryanntag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-07T06:27:19Z2013-08-07T06:27:19ZFacebook<div><p>What about Facebook? Is it usable now?</p></div>Chris (chtrusch)tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-07T12:32:02Z2014-09-04T12:27:36ZFacebook<div><p>Still doing the same thing. No other problems at this point.
Every other<br>
program, every other website, even other browsers like WebKit,
work.<br>
Bruce</p></div>bruce.maryanntag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-07T12:57:17Z2013-08-07T12:57:17ZFacebook<div><p>Bruce, I can't reproduce this on my quad either.</p></div>Cameron Kaisertag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-07T13:02:31Z2013-08-07T13:02:31ZFacebook<div><p>(Also, please clarify the version you are using, but if you're
seeing this on all three Gecko browsers, the underlying local
problem is going to be very hard to diagnose.)</p></div>Cameron Kaisertag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-07T13:33:06Z2013-08-07T13:33:06ZFacebook<div><p>Okay, let me sum up what we have so far.</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook is unusable on all your PPC Macs with all modern
Mozilla based browsers</li>
<li>it's not "a bit slow", but "spinning beachball unusable"</li>
<li>it simultaneously started this week in all Mozilla browsers and
did not happen before</li>
<li>add-ons are not the culprit</li>
<li>other websites are okay</li>
<li>Safari is okay</li>
</ul>
<p>Very Weird. So either Facebook has made some changes that affect
only a limited number of people with Mozilla browsers (I haven't
heard of this problem anywhere else), or you have an odd mixture of
preferences settings in all your Mozilla browsers. Does anything
come to mind that you might have changed?</p>
<p>What to do?</p>
<p>Please try a fresh Firefox profile first:</p>
<ul>
<li>Quit TenFourFox</li>
<li>In the Finder go to Macintosh HD>users>[your user
name]>Library>Application Support.</li>
<li>Move the Firefox folder to the desktop. This is your profile
folder. Don't delete it yet, it contains your bookmarks and other
settings, but your profile may be damaged insome way.</li>
<li>Start TenFourFox and see if Facebook is any better.</li>
</ul></div>Chris (chtrusch)tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-08T11:59:00Z2014-09-04T12:27:36ZFacebook<div><p>I really appreciate the help, but unfortunately, this made no
difference at<br>
all.</p></div>bruce.maryanntag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-08T12:42:14Z2013-08-08T12:44:56ZFacebook<div><p>This is very unfortunate because now I'm out of ideas. I'm
posting this from my Pismo (400 MHz G3), and even on this very low
end machine the FB start/newsfeed page loads flawlessly with
TenFourFox 17 and 22. It does take about a minute, but the JS is
steadily executed, and the spinning beachball never appears.</p>
<p>If your problem only occurred on one Mac, I'd definitely say
there's something wrong with this machine, but since it's on all
your PPC Macs (as I understand it), I give up… Sorry.</p>
<p>All I can say is you could try to mitigate the problem by
preventing at least the "unresponsive scipt" dialog from
appearing:</p>
<ul>
<li>Type about:config in the address bar. Hit return.</li>
<li>Confirm you'll be careful.</li>
<li>Scroll down to dom.max_script_run_time, double click it and set
the value to 0. [Zero means it will never appear. Numbers above
zero are the time span in which it will appear if JS is too busy. I
have it set to 40 on all my Macs and I never see it.]</li>
</ul>
<p>This way, the page will load eventually, no matter how long it
takes. Still, this shouldn't take more than half a minute max on
your Quad G5 (this is the time it takes on my PowerBook G4).</p></div>Chris (chtrusch)tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-08-11T18:04:26Z2013-08-11T18:04:29ZFacebook<div><p>I too have this problem but not all the time, it just happens
after awhile, the spinning beachball and locks up so I have to
force quit the iBookG4.</p>
<p>I am trying out tenfourfox because safari become totally
unuseable and would lock up as I launched it.</p></div>spidennistag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/281389252013-09-09T14:34:42Z2013-09-09T14:34:42ZFacebook<div><p>Spiderdennis, your're probably short on RAM. Basically, the more
JS we do, the longer you use Facebook in a session, and the more
Facebook tabes you have open, the more RAM we use. If your iBook
starts swapping out, it will get significantly sower. However, it
shouldn't lock up completely, but it can take a few minutes.</p>
<p>Bruce, any news on your problem?</p></div>Chris (chtrusch)