Comments on: Use Grooveshark faster: Firefox 3.0b4

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:07:03 +0000

I should note that this post is so old it no longer applies. What Grooveshark was when this was relevant no longer exists!

That said I do like Chrome, but until I can easily add an adblock extension to it, I’m sticking with Firefox. :P

By: jbcarey

jbcarey — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:52:36 +0000

I still use Google Chrome for Grooveshark… I ‘only’ use chrome for grooveshark… basically chrome is my music player :D

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:58:24 +0000

I think you are right Katy, because whenever it seems like JS is what is slowing down the render, the entire browser is unusable. I can’t switch to another tab while I wait or anything like that.

I don’t know if that’s still true in FF 3 because I haven’t found a site that slows it down enough to try!

By: Katy

Katy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:25:09 +0000

I’m curious to know what changes they’ve made to speed it up so much. As awesome as Tamarin is going to be, it’s not going to be integrated into SpiderMonkey until Firefox 4.

I don’t know for sure how accurate this is, but I’ve read that SpiderMonkey is also used for some portions of Firefox’s user interface in addition to javascript execution, and since SpiderMonkey is single-threaded, if it’s blocked by some script execution on a website, it can block Firefox’s interface too. That would definitely lead to a feeling of slowness, and the reverse would be true too – if Firefox’s interface is taking up the thread, all the scripts in all the tabs you have open are just waiting.

Maybe Firefox 3 no longer shares a thread between the chrome and your actual websites.

By: chanel

chanel — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:59:48 +0000

Just wait Jay, I have more tricks up my sleeves.

I just tried out Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 and I too was blown away. Too bad I can’t permanently switch because I have to keep Firefox2 for testing, but I will definitely make Firefox 3 my permanent browser