Would be extremely keen to hear your views and thoughts!
Best regards,
Avastfan1
My setup:
Window$ XP Pro SP3 (fully patched)
Firefox 3.5
Avast Pro 4.8.1335
ZA Pro 8.0.400.02
MBAM Pro 1.38 (resident protection module)
SAS 4.26.1006 (on-demand)
Spybot 1.6.2.46 (on-demand)
Hijackthis 2.0.2 (on-demand)
I’d been having a connection problem with 3.5 that’s probably not the same as yours but might be related. After upgrading to the final release (from 3.1-point-whatever), I found that at a great many sites, I’d get a very long (10 secs or more) “looking up …” followed by an equally long “waiting for …”, and often also slow “downloading data …”. I’m on a good DSL/PPPoE connection, so naturally this was a pain.
And I was (and am) certain that the problem lay within the new Firefox rather than in bad DNS connections or elsewhere “out here”, since if I gritted my teeth and tried with IE-8 instead, that went smooth as silk.
I posted this over at the Firefox forums, and one of the mods suggested I try building a new profile and see if that helped. My 3.1 had been set to auto-detect proxies, mainly because I wasn’t clear on just how “transparent” avast’s proxy is and I didn’t want to run into problems with that, but I found that changing to no proxy (or direct connection, or however it’s worded in FF) made a considerable improvement.
My son’s guess is that something was changed in FF 3.5 which considerably slows down proxy lookup when that’s necessary. Oh, and I’ve had the anti-phishing features and the new private browsing thing turned off all along, so I wouldn’t think they’d be a factor.
I’m having no problems with 3.5 (lucky) and page loads for me are noticeably faster. My only problem at the moment is my ISP, difficulty getting a dial-up connection, difficult getting a good connection speed and constant connection failures.
This has been going on for a while now before firefox 3.5 and really nothing related to FF, but when I get a half decent connection and I really notice the faster page loading.
My son's guess is that something was changed in FF 3.5 which considerably slows down proxy lookup when that's necessary. Oh, and I've had the anti-phishing features and the new private browsing thing turned off all along, so I wouldn't think they'd be a factor.
The link in the notice from avast that this thread was updated required the use of the F5 key to refresh the link.
It happens with most links in my email notifications.
It was not the speed of the websites which was the problem. Indeed I, like DavidR also noticed a significant increase in loading times.
Rather the problem was the intermittent connection to websites. I already have the Firefox proxy configured for the ‘12080’ Avast proxy as per the Avast website instructions.
Perhaps this new update relating to the Scriptmonkey issue will fix it.
Glad to see that other people are also experiencing this issue
I have the same (or very similar) problem since “upgrading” to 3.5 from 3.1, initially everything worked well, and page loading appeared faster. Then intermittent connection issues in both Thunderbird (which was updated a very few days beforehand, also) and Firefox.
That is; no connection, for up to half a minute at a time. Sometimes not at all. Closing the browser and re-opening it usually works. Reloading the page sometimes works. Happens on all sites, randomly.
Waiting somewhat impatiently for the fix as mentioned by Sammo.
Right. Gone back to the earlier version of Firefox. Problem persists. Not only with the browser, but with email client, (Tbird) and Limewire as well. Sounds firewall-y, but nothing has changed there.
Could even be intermittent connection, but since it generally only lasts five to fifty seconds and the modem is in a different room, it hasn’t shown anything.
Couple of other software updates at a similar time, it’s time to start troubleshooting, darn it.
