HOrnbrod Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 WTF is up with Ebay? Since they converted to the "new" Ebay Motors, it has slowed to a crawl. I've done the usual things; getting rid of cookies and temp internet files, clearing the cache, increasing the size of the page file, etc. Nothing had helped. This is the only site that's slow loading on my computer. Anyone know of a cure? It sucks bad.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 So you're saying they took a 4.0 out and put in a 2.8? I stay away from eBay as best I can... gets me in trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 So you're saying they took a 4.0 out and put in a 2.8? I stay away from eBay as best I can... gets me in trouble. More like they pulled the 4.0 then said the hell with any engine. It's freekin' terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfpdm Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I thought it was just me, but yeah it's way slow. It used to let you opt out of the new set up but now it doesn't. I'm always deleting cookies so I'm screwed with the new crap. I think what is slowing it down the most is their new ad banner stuff. If you watch at the bottom as it's loading, it gets hung up on the ad server. Because of this crap, my ebay surfing is down by 80% at least. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. :no: Or is that if it ain't broke, screw with it till it is. :thumbsup: :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowey Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I still use the 'classic" e-bay motors... it runs slow.. but not as bad as the new one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 I still use the 'classic" e-bay motors... it runs slow.. but not as bad as the new one "Classic" went off the air last week. :fs1: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtdesigns Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Ebay isnt slow for me... Firefox Adblocker FTMFW!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvusse Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 After reading this thread I checked it out for myself. No slowness noticed. Firefox 3.07 under Linux on a 1.5Ghz Celeron M lap top, 2 GB RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 Thanks - looks like Firefox replacing IE6 it is. 8) Now got to study up on it.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Thanks - looks like Firefox replacing IE6 it is. 8) Now got to study up on it.............. People still use IE? :nuts: :nuts: :nuts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 19, 2009 Author Share Posted April 19, 2009 Yeah, most all hole. :nuts: :nuts: :nuts: :nuts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whowey Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I still use the 'classic" e-bay motors... it runs slow.. but not as bad as the new one "Classic" went off the air last week. :fs1: Shows you how much I'm on GreedPay.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinkrun Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 :rotfl2: "greed bay making things better again" :rotfl2: So this add blocker will reomve the new adds they have from the page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLHTAZ Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I use IE 8. Have no trouble with eBay. I tried Firefox a while back, but it was huge PITA...I much prefer IE8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 I use IE 8. Have no trouble with eBay. I tried Firefox a while back, but it was huge PITA...I much prefer IE8. I'm still using IE6 - that's probably why I'm having problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeepdoggydogB Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I use IE 8. Have no trouble with eBay. I tried Firefox a while back, but it was huge PITA...I much prefer IE8. I'm still using IE6 - that's probably why I'm having problems. Don,Works fine for IE7 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLHTAZ Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I use IE 8. Have no trouble with eBay. I tried Firefox a while back, but it was huge PITA...I much prefer IE8. I'm still using IE6 - that's probably why I'm having problems. I used IE7 for quite a while, but it was rather quirky. I have been real happy with IE8 so far...5 weeks now since I downloaded it on both my PC and laptop, and not one browser crash yet :eek: :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinkrun Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 I just installed the firefox and then the add blocker add on for it and those sponsored adds on ebay are all gone and its running great! Just have to learn the new format which is no big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 What version of Firefox is the best? 2 or 3? I'm trying to save hard disk space. Oh - and can I import IE bookmarks from a file? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildman Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 I'd go with the "newer" 3 And yes, you can import all your bookmarks over to Firefox. If I remember right, it asks you as your setting it up. Just make sure you have the seat belt fasten on your chair when you fire up that Firefox. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 Just installed Firefox 2.0.0.20. Man, what an improvement! Everything is flying now, including the NEW Ebay. Many thanks for steering me back home. Funny, I always used Netscape for my default browser many years ago but somehow got away from it, I think because somewhere I worked the Windows browser was the only one we could use. It uses about 20Mb of disk space, not bad at all. Love the built-in spell-wrong indicator too. Thanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildman Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Like I said............. Just make sure you have the seat belt fasten on your chair when you fire up that Firefox. Oh........and you might want to add wheel chocks for your chair :rotfl2: So......welcome to the real fast web browsing :banana: And just think, couple years ago, e-bay didn't support Mozilla/Netscape, and now it seams there is no problem with it :hmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 Dayem, Firefox is a memory hog though. Just running in the background w. a single window open (this one) sucks up almost 100K of memory, compared to IE which uses only about 12K-13K. There must be a tweak for this, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvusse Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 My Firefox browser has been open for 17 days, currently 4 tabs, sometimes as many as 20 and it has 149MB resident memory, most of it data. But I don't believe IE will only use 12K. 12M maybe? Part of the speed might be a large memory cache, which would explain the high consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOrnbrod Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 My Firefox browser has been open for 17 days, currently 4 tabs, sometimes as many as 20 and it has 149MB resident memory, most of it data. But I don't believe IE will only use 12K. 12M maybe? Part of the speed might be a large memory cache, which would explain the high consumption. I open Task Manager w. a window running in both IE6 and Firefox 2. Memory usage IS as stated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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