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Subject: Firefox slow? Try THIS!
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Check out this firefox plugin if you've been sufferin some bungie.net slowness in firefox. Basically it justs renders any page you want with the IE engine in a firefox tab or window. Nice little hack and it just might save you some time. In the IE tab prefs you can set it up to load certain websites in IE mode only--nifty nifty.

http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

If this has been posted before, I'm sorry! Been busy the last few months.

[Edited on 6/4/2006]

  • 06.04.2006 5:03 PM PDT
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Wow, thanks. I always thought Firefox was a little slow with Bungie.net...

  • 06.04.2006 5:06 PM PDT
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Cool thanks, needed that. Master.

Don't forget this site for help. http://ietab.mozdev.org

Which ironically doesn't help me.

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  • 06.04.2006 5:07 PM PDT
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Already got it, nifty for checking whether websites display properly in both browsers. Also, i'd recommend FasterFox, it makes firefox cache everything, makes it much faster once you've been using it for a while. It's also got options for actually accelerating the transfer of information between you and the server, but that increases server load and so is up there with download accelerators.

  • 06.04.2006 5:09 PM PDT
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I use fasterfox. It works pretty well, but I'll check that out, too.

  • 06.04.2006 5:11 PM PDT

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Firefox does act slow with the sites I like, so I use IE. It works for me. No matter what the other stats on the other processors show.

  • 06.04.2006 5:16 PM PDT
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I can't seem to install it. I'm missing the extension for the file.

  • 06.04.2006 6:00 PM PDT

awesome. finally, something that'll make this run faster.

  • 06.04.2006 6:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: EL
I can't seem to install it. I'm missing the extension for the file.


Hmm, I heard that happens to jerks. However, you should make sure you have the newest version of firefox AND it's also possible you have a bad firefox install -- so uninstall firefox and install again.

If none of that stuff above works then...yea you are probably a jerk. So sorry.

  • 06.04.2006 6:11 PM PDT

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Whatever happened to everyone on the Yakalike extension...I don't think anyone uses it anymore.

  • 06.04.2006 6:13 PM PDT
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Yakalike was so freaking lame and slow. That's probably why.

  • 06.04.2006 6:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: stosh
Yakalike was so freaking lame and slow. That's probably why.


True, is there still a FF extension that people use that is like Yakalike?

  • 06.04.2006 6:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: stosh
Yakalike was so freaking lame and slow. That's probably why.


Stosh has spoken.

  • 06.04.2006 6:16 PM PDT
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its like a large force of win going through fusion, thus creating a chain reaction of a huge asplosion of win destroying any fail within its awesomeness.

Thanks Stosh, just in time!

  • 06.04.2006 6:22 PM PDT
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Firefox goes slower for me using the IE embedded. Odd... but I did config Firefox to go to extreme measures.

  • 06.04.2006 7:51 PM PDT
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Because it's a different rendering engine, parsing like an emulator.

  • 06.05.2006 2:58 AM PDT
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This link helped me alot aswell. Follow it's directions and Firefox loads Bungie twice as fast, at least for me.

  • 06.05.2006 3:07 AM PDT
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"Internet Explorer" is slow and inefficient. "Firefox" works better.

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  • 06.05.2006 4:10 AM PDT
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Yes that is true most of the time, but there's a couple rendering bugs in Firefox that make bungie.net scroll slow. Also I've always had problems with the admin tools in firefox, esp the master ninja ban tool.

The website definitely scrolls faster for me with this plugin. After reading the support site it does sound like it works for some people but breaks for others. Just try it out I guess.

I dunno if I would call this an "emulator", since you are required to have IE installed before using the plugin. I think it just loads the IE rendering engine in a tab.

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  • 06.05.2006 7:31 AM PDT

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It isn't an emulator. IE is designed to be used by any windows application. All the plugin does is open an IE instance in a firefox tab, and uses the IE renderer.

Incidentally, the IE renderer is generally faster than the Firefox one. However, Firefox is generally more strict about the rules of various standards, so that's probably why that is. In our case, our HTML/CSS is generally designed to work best in Safari, and the code adjusts it to deal with various IE bugs/"Features". The problem with Firefox is that there are a few rendering bugs that we could work around in a similar manner, except that if we did, we'd break IE AND Safari. And given that IE is still waaaaaaaaaaay more used than Firefox on this site, the choice is obvious. And before some idiot starts whining about "following web standards"... that's not the problem here. It is all about working around the bugs in each browser.

We are working toward changing the way our client detection code works, so that things will gradually get better for people with custom browser configs. Maybe even mobile browsers will work eventually.

  • 06.05.2006 10:58 AM PDT
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Given the sheer size of the forum system and its use by microsoft, i'm surprised there's not a mobile version available already from the developers, especially considering Microsoft and their push with Windows Live Anywhere.

  • 06.05.2006 11:05 AM PDT
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Making this site viewable on a mobile phone would be much easier since they are already using Xhtml but there are things that are way to hard to manupulate(misspelt) for mobile such as the forums due to the fact that typing is near impossible with an average phone.

  • 06.05.2006 12:53 PM PDT
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View it on a PSP then :P. Or one of those new fangled PDA phones.

  • 06.05.2006 1:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: Achronos
And given that IE is still waaaaaaaaaaay more used than Firefox on this site, the choice is obvious.

Just cuz more people use it don't make it right.

  • 06.05.2006 1:37 PM PDT

well, i'd agree with you, but with this new ie thing bnet is running much faster. I'd say i'm content with it.

  • 06.05.2006 3:21 PM PDT

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