Tag: SLOW

Mozilla, continuing its year-long crusade to speed up Firefox startup and shutdown times, has published a name and shame list of the Firefox's slowest add-ons. The list is just one part of Mozilla's new efforts to highlight slow add-ons, and to help developers make their add-ons more efficient. Over the next two weeks, 'slow performance warnings' will be introduced in the add-on gallery so ...

Steve Jobs is answering email again, and this time he seems to have confirmed an iOS 4 update that will fix the operating system's slow-as-molasses performance on the iPhone 3G. Jobs didn't explicitly say "iOS 4.1," but it seems highly likely. He also didn't say when users of older iPhones could expect this miraculous update, just "soon." Here's the email exchange, via MacRumors.com: I've ...

Yes! It's not only me that thinks Gmail is slow! For the longest time, I wondered if I had a 'slow' Gmail server, or if my large inbox was crippling me in some way. It turns out that Google knows about the issue, and TechCrunch is reporting that it will 'soon get a lot faster'. Speaking at SXSW, Google panellist Jonathan Perlow acknowledged the sluggishness of Gmail and said 'we are fixing it.' ...