Firefox slow to save images

[FourWheelDrift]

Tried to search around normal Firefox sites for help but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack using the search terms I need.

With IE it's very easy to save a webpage image by right clicking and saving it off and I can continue doing whatever I am doing whilst it save it. But with Firefox at the moment if I save the image it completely freezes Firefox until the image is downloaded. If I am searching for royalty free photo's to use as backgrounds or in layouts I can be waiting ages to download them all one at a time. Very frustrating, it only unfreezes Firefox (inlcuding all tabbed pages) when the "download has finished" popup appears.

I am wondering if it has anything to do with the trick to speed up Firefox by editing the about:config section which has been posted on here a few times.

Does anyone else have this or know how to make it save quicker?

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 12th May 16:27

[BliarOut]

Just a guess, but try :

Tools > Options> Downloads, try changing the location where you save to.

[zumbruk]

FourWheelDrift said:

Tried to search around normal Firefox sites for help but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack using the search terms I need. With IE it's very easy to save a webpage image by right clicking and saving it off and I can continue doing whatever I am doing whilst it save it. But with Firefox at the moment if I save the image it completely freezes Firefox until the image is downloaded. If I am searching for royalty free photo's to use as backgrounds or in layouts I can be waiting ages to download them all one at a time. Very frustrating, it only unfreezes Firefox (inlcuding all tabbed pages) when the "download has finished" popup appears. I am wondering if it has anything to do with the trick to speed up Firefox by editing the about:config section which has been posted on here a few times.

Almost certainly, since I haven't installed that hack and my Firefox doesn't behave like that, even if I'm running 3 or 4 downloads at the same time.

[FourWheelDrift]

zumbruk said:

Almost certainly, since I haven't installed that hack and my Firefox doesn't behave like that, even if I'm running 3 or 4 downloads at the same time.

I can easily set two of the settings back to false, but what does your defualt "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" say the hack changes it to 30.

Then I'll do some testing

[FourWheelDrift]

I changed the setting back, guessed at 15 for the max requests but it's still slow, changing where they download to doesn't do anything as I always have different dowload locations for different types of images (skys, landscapes, people, objects)

Any other thoughts?

[Pigeon]

There's a "downloads performance patch" on the mozilla website somewhere, give that a shot. I'm using 0.8.0 and while it's not a complete cure, it does make it a lot better.

[FourWheelDrift]

Right problem solved. It's the downloads, they don't self clear from the downloads list after use. Under Tools/Downloads. Great.

Unless anyone knows if it can be set to clear, or have something that can clear it automatically (Firefox 1.0.4 here so older extensions may not work).

[silverfox]

In Firefox 1.04 on a PC you might try:

Tools, Options, Privacy, Download Manager History and change the options there to see if it improves.

[FourWheelDrift]

silverfox said:

In Firefox 1.04 on a PC you might try: Tools, Options, Privacy, Download Manager History and change the options there to see if it improves.

Brilliant. Can't think how I missed that. Thanks