Southern Spirit Hunters
Beyond The Spirits => Computer Clues => Topic started by: wimc on Jul 18, 2011, 08:06:17 AM
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I use Firefox as well and don't have that issue. Using XP Pro here at work and Windows 7 at home. What virus program are you using?
XP Pro, free avast.
But, see this post http://www.southernspirithunters.com/smf/index.php/topic,2143.msg146849.html#msg146849 (http://www.southernspirithunters.com/smf/index.php/topic,2143.msg146849.html#msg146849)
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It's definitely not SMF. Are you using the site scanner function in avast? As I said earlier, I use Firefox exclusively and have not seen the issue that you have. Google Chrome is another alternative to IE. I'm an IE hater as well but do keep it around to test things.
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Even starting a new topic result in the same thing. When I view topics smileys are working correctly. Same Avast settings for years, just think its Firefox 5.0.1, I had latest version 3 previously and worked fine, updated to FF 5.0.1 few days ago. And IE is only used to update Windows.
One more thing I noticed are whacky in reply or new topic, menus (file, edit, etc) are flaky as well when hovering.
Edit: menus are fine when not replying to existing topics or starting a new topic.
Believe without a doubt FF 5.0.1 is the blame.
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I am using FF5.0 and have the same problem with smileys being really slow.
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This topic is better suited in the Computer Clues forum.
At least someone else is experiencing similar.
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I moved it there. I'm using FF 5.0 and don't have the issue at all. I'm wondering if it is a problem that I ran into once after updating. My preferences file got corrupt and the only way to fix it was to remove it manually. I'm not sure if that was one of the symptoms though.
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Gonna wait and see what happens next update. Thanks for moving, Jim.
Add: even after submitting post it lags.
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You know, now that you mention it, it did start after installing all those updates the other night, although FF was not one of the updates.
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Post testing in IE8, and everything is working like it should for the most part. The cursor focus in post is acting strange in IE8.
Confused now, its either a most recent Windows update or FF 5.0.1
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I usually figure things out, but this time will wait on the next FF update.
The focus (where you start typing that is) in post may be a IE8 thing, all the issues with FF 5.0.1 not happening in IE8.
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Interesting. Might be worth doing some research with Google to see if anyone else has noticed this. Might help nail down which update it was. I am a bit leary of the Microsoft Updates lately. Got one for Windows 7 that completely disabled the USB mouse and keyboard. Only way around it was to restore back to just before the update and in my case that was the day I took the machine out of the box. It wasn't fun!
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No change, it takes up to 3 minutes to post messages.
Still going to wait and see what happens with newer Firefox 5 releases.
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And I still have no idea what is causing it. I just posted one and it took about 5 seconds. Have you tried turning off some of the things that Avast does? If you are using the link scanner or page scanner it could be slowing things down. I have Avast on my weather station computer but haven't done much with it but install it.
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I don't have Avast, and I still have a problem.
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I don't have Avast, and I still have a problem.
Detailed description of the problem is about the only way I can help!
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All the smileys are barely moving when I am in reply mode (or preview), and it takes longer than usual to post. Really one of the main reasons I rarely use the smileys. If I'm just reading, everything is fine. Or if I am doing the quick reply the post goes fast.
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I've been using free avast for years, problem basically started after upgrading to Firefox 5.
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Barb, are you using FF 5.0 as well?
I use FireFox 5 at home and at work and haven't noticed any issues. At work I'm on XP Professional and at home I have XP Home and Windows 7 Home Premium. No issues with any of those.
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I am using FF 5.0 and Windows& on the laptop. I will have to check the desktop to see if it is actually a problem there. I don't normally access the site through my desktop these days.
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ok, I am on my desktop. When in reply mode the icons are only slightly slow, as is everything on this computer (it's old), but they move much faster than on the laptop, and fast enough to tell what each one is. On the laptop, I have to hover over the smiley to be sure what it is as they are almost frozen. I am running FF 4.0.1 on the desktop.
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Has to be something in your set-up. Are you using the laptop like Dianna's? I don't remember hearing her say anything about it but she hasn't used it much either. That one will be easy for me to test.
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Yup. Using the the one like Dianna's. The difference between the LT and DT is the version of FF. Oh and the LT has Windows7, the DT is XP. I could upgrade FF on the DT to see if it does the causes the same problem if you like.
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And am just now checking. The problem doesn't exist with IE8.
Something else I didn't mention is that the transparency in the games is gone when in FF. Like when I'm playing Yatzee, the dice roll inside black squares.
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OK, now I see what you are seeing. It's definitely a FireFox issue, but I haven't figured out why it works fine on my desktop. It could be related to the processor speed and or the graphics card. I can confirm that the annimation is definitely slow using FF on Dianna's laptop too so it's not your set-up Barb and is probably not William's.
I'll continue to look for a solution on the FireFox support site.
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I have an old Dell Dimension 4500, old because I don't remember when I bought it.
Basic specs...
Windows XP Professional SP3
Pentium 4 @ 2.4 Ghz
1 GB DDR Ram
Nvidia Geforce4 MX 420, 32 MB
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I've updated to FF 6.0 and nothing has changed.
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I need to update Dianna's laptop and see if it makes a difference there.
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No change upgrading FF6, actually got a bit worse, smileys took around 5 minutes to load.
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I'm curious if any of the other FF users are having this issue. I tried unchecking the hardware acceleration and the smileys load and have their normal motion for about 5 seconds, then they slow down. I'm still searching the FF site for a fix.
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Nope. I updated to FF6 today. I did not have delays loading smilies before or after.
I run a 2002 Dell XP, SP2, Intel Pentium 4CPU 2.66 GHz, 256 MB RAM. And other stuff after that means little to me.
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mine are slower than they should be but not as slow as the others. i'm on an old dell experion laptop with a celeron processor... but i'm not running ff 6 either.
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Turned off* images in browser and page loads fast in post reply. No lag either. Firefox is having an issue with certain parts of SMF.
* not recommended though, forum looks too weird without images, its more or less text based.
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I wouldn't say it is FireFox having as issue with SMF because I don't have an issue with any of the systems I use and FireFox. It just seems to be certain combinations of hardware. Basically it's the animated gifs that are slowing things down a bit. That animation can be turned off in FireFox. The default is Normal. Of course if you turn it off, it turns off for all the sites you frequent.
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At least mine is having issues with this SMF setup, seems to be the only one. Now that I turn images on, back to slowness, post lag, fast if off (everything works as it should, minus no images).
When I used latest version 3.x.x, no problem.
Beats me, though I never looked for a solution anywhere.
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No change with FF 6.0.2
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Mine only slightly improved with update to 6.0.2
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Updated to 7.0 and no change.
Have absolutely no clue why this is happening.
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Can someone enable themes in profile, just to see something, wish I thought about this with the halloween one was up.
Thanks
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I thought I read somewhere that the black boxes around the dice on the yahtzee game was gone. Just wanted to find out what you did, as mine are not gone and I'm totally updated to FF 8.0.1. The smilies seem to be working now though.
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I mentioned the blocks around yahtzee dice are gone, but no clue why. Still having problems with FF 8.0
Since all themes are/were available, no change from any, so its not theme specific.
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I know its not my end, near fresh windows install and new connection haven't solved it, but can say it resolves around the smiley area. When posting reply or new topic the clock doesn't open when double-clicked over smileys, when I scroll down and double-click clock it opens.
Firefox 10.0.2
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Actually it is your end William. I use Firefox on 4 different computers and don't have the issue you describe. What clock are you talking about that doesn't open???
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Its Firefox even with fresh windows install. Guess FF doesn't like me and/or my computer.
I just tried IE 8 and everything works.
Don't like Googles browser, so that won't be installed. And I don't much care for IE either.
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I installed Opera 11.61 and everything loads correctly.
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I still have problems too - in FF only. Works fine in IE
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Removed Opera, don't really like it either, tried Avant browser, but it was awful, uninstalled that.
Must be a FF setting that could be altered, someday will find it.
At this view smileys are slow. And other things go wonky (bookmark list, post button, etc).
http://www.wimc.us/files/0212/smiley-view-1.gif (http://www.wimc.us/files/0212/smiley-view-1.gif)
This view smileys run normally. And other things run normally.
http://www.wimc.us/files/0212/smiley-view-2.gif (http://www.wimc.us/files/0212/smiley-view-2.gif)
Sticking with FF.
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No issues anymore, not sure what happened though.
I did nothing that solved it.
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An added benefit of our changing host? Wonder if Barb is still having the same issue?
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You think previous host (might) have been the cause.
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Yep, because I haven't done anything to the SMF files here. The only thing that has changed on this end is the host.
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Knew it wasn't my end, told you so. :BigGrin:
Serious note: its all good though.
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The smileys are still slow in the reply screen only, but the black boxes around the dice are gone. But they were gone before. Still with the slow smileys, slow enough that I can't tell what some of them do if I didn't already know.
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I just updated to FF 11.0. Seems to have fixed the slow smileys in the reply.
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Cool. Glad things seem to work themselves out.