Vista/Firefox/LJ oddness

[karohemd]

On my laptop (Vista, Firefox 3.5.3), whenever I comment on a post (one of mine or somebody else's) or just open the comment page, I can't refresh it again, it simply won't load completely and sometimes hitting reload doesn't do anything at all. Clearing the cache doesn't help.
This works fine in Chrome or the same version of Firefox under XP SP3 on my PC.

Any ideas?

ETA: Installing XP or some form of Linux is NOT an option I'm after.

Comments

[christhegoth.livejournal.com]

Remove Vista and install XP.

Or shift the laptop to Ubuntu. Then you get Ubuntu tools as well as windows tools for piccy stuff.

Basically Vista is crap. There's no nice way of putting it sadly.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's the one answer I didn't want to hear. :/

[christhegoth.livejournal.com]

Why? Ubuntu is great for images. And you've got an XP PC and I'm guessing a data-stick to transfer files.

Best of both worlds. I have this and I swear by it.

[briggsy.livejournal.com]

Use Chrome until a fix is made to Firefox or LJ!

Or get Windows 7 when it comes out, which fixes the issues with Vista (and I believe that Vista with the service packs isn't as bad as Vista when it was released, which was terrible).

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Any different if you hold down Ctrl while hitting refresh?

Do you have any Firefox extensions installed that relate to LJ? -- might be that one of them behaves badly with Vista.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I'll have to try that.

No LJ specific ones. I'm going to try and switch off the ones I have to see if any make a difference.

[ua-meruti.livejournal.com]

Hmm... this comment comes to you from a Vista PC with Firefox 3.5.3 and it appears to work OK. Perhaps a plugin you have installed is misbehaving?

Incidentally, good for you for not wanting to install XP or Linux (from one of the few Vista fans in the world).

[ua-meruti.livejournal.com]

Additionally:
One thing I will say, Firefox 3.5.3 does appear to be a great deal slower than IE8 or Safari.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

That's very worrying. You shouldn't be able to detect a speed difference unless you're doing something really extreme. (Because the network connection will be a far more limiting factor than the browser.)

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Hmm, my home laptop is Vista with FF 3.5.3 and works fine, though as others have said the new FF seems a tad on the slow side.

I won't be unhelpful and ram Linux down your throat, but I believe Windows 7 has ironed out quite a few Vista issues- I have Win7 at work and it's rather nifty. :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Try these:

A) Press F5.
B) Press CTRL-R.
C) Drag the page's tab from the tab bar to anywhere within the page body (!).
D) Select the URL from the address bar and press Enter.
E) Copy and paste the URL into another tab in the same FireFox instance.

Which (if any) of these work should provide some clues as to what's going wrong.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

A) doesn't work
B) haven't tried (but I'd assume it's the same as F5)
C) that's a new one, need to try it
D) nothing doing (also not if you delete the ?view=xxx#xxx bit from the URL and press Enter)
E) that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't

Reopening the link to the comments page from the f-page (or my LJ) in a new tab usually works, though but stops as soon as a comment has been added.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

If E) sometimes fails, that means Firefox is crashing. That's very worrying.

How much are you running at the same time. Is it possible you're low on memory?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Tbh, I'm not sure about E), I need to test it again.

Low memory shouldn't really be an issue (I've got 4GB) and it happens when Firefox is the only app running, too.