Question regarding Flock browser....

[mountainguy]

Hi guys,

I followed Ed's suggestion and downloaded the Flock browser. Looks very cool with all it can do.

I have however noticed that it seems to be MUUUUCH slower than my Firefox (and Explorer).

I Googled the issue and found some related posts and a couple of possible workarounds.

Before following them up, I thought I'd quickly ask the the 30DC brain-strust if anyones having (or had) some similar speed issues....and if so, how you've solved them. I'm sure there'll be some simple "teaks" that might exist.

For sake of background:

- Running a higher-end Windows XP based machine (roughly 2.5 years old)
- 2 gig ram
- Plenty of free hard disk space
- All other programs and general internet works like a dream

Thanks in advance to anyone who can in throw their 5 cents worth.

[cymonguk]

Cant say I am experiencing any particularr delays related to flock, I am running a dual 867 PPC4, 2Gb, Leopard without problems so far. I did notice Flock was chewing up CPU before, but a restart of flock stopped that.

Have you checked your task manage to see if it is eating up memory, etc?

You aren't running add ins are you?

[cymonguk]

also are you comparing to ffox2 or ffox 3? I would expect ffox 3 to be faster

[rezbi]

I'm getting better performance from flock.

Try to clear out your system... Maybe there's processes running that can be shut down?

[daiyaan]

Lol, I can agree with that, my Flock browser is also running a lot slower (and boy does it take up the CPU Usage). Not exactly sure why, I guess it's all those extra features.

[mountainguy]

After double-checking from a couple of other sources, I have followed one of the suggested "Tweaks" I found on Google and it's improved the speed massively!

Here's what I did and I'll also include the relevant link for additional reading....

"...[1] type about:config into the address bar at the top and wait for page to load
[2] in the filter type network.http
[3] locate the strand called network.http.pipelining and double click it to change the value from false to true
[4] Do the same to network.http.proxy.pipelining
[5] Then locate network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - double click and change the value to 30 or higher (I'm using 40)
[6] Finally, close flock and load it up again..."

Did that and its working like a dream

Here's some additional reading plus some further discussion on speed related issues....

Flock Browser - Speeding Flock up | Flock

And guys who posted on the thread, many thanks for offering your suggestions and experiences with Flock.

[Caro]

I SO LOVE tech heads!! Love you, love you

Thank you!

I've never noticed it being slower - and then thought I'd trial what you wrote - WOW!

I have NO IDEA how you know such stuff - and I guess we all have skills in differing areas. I lurve techies!!!

Caro

[mountainguy]

Hi Caro,

Thanks for spreading the "looooooove"

And glad it helped you as much as it did me.

[AndyWiltshireNZ]

Great tip! Thanks! This should be stickied or mentioned somewhere for when TDCers download Flock...

[Caro]

We're onto it! Ed's going to do a video on it. MountainGuy - you will be acknowledged for providing this info to us

Thank you!

Caro