Comments on: Facebook is slow, but there’s an easy fix

By: wafa

wafa — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:54:27 +0000

No one yet gave a solution,waste of time.

By: hp

hp — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:01:06 +0000

seriously facebook needs to sort it shit out!! - it worked just fine to begin with and it was easier to use and then they had to go and change it all and make it all sh**t and complicated resulting in it not f&^%kin working at all! SO frustrating!!

By: kyussmondo

kyussmondo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:17:38 +0000

A good solution is using a browser that handles javascript faster and renders pages quicker. I believe the quickest are Safari and Google Chrome. Firefox and Opera are also good alternatives. The site does need a redesign, however most Web 2.0 sites now use Javascript AJAX etc, so the browser will make a difference.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:52:16 +0000

Useless post, thanks for nothing and the waste of time!

By: Evgeny

Evgeny — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:38:21 +0000

Good post, and I completely agree.
They should somehow concatenate this stuff, and make it more “browser cache” friendly. Since even with this multitude of javascripts/stylesheets they have — it is still being served in a way that each request gets a new file. And the browser cache (especially firefox) does not store it for faster loads in the future.

By: superj from g-town

superj from g-town — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:37:04 +0000

HERES YOUR BEST AND QUICKEST SOLUTION
download latest version of safari from http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
seems to handle facebook easily and is a pretty quick fix,but you will need to download the FLASH plug-in from here and install it,very very easy!
works so much better for me,im using windows xp sp3 with all updates.

By: Kenny Brunton

Kenny Brunton — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:49:36 +0000

I’m not a fan of facebook (faeces book as I call it). Kind of ditched them when I discovered Microsoft had dibs in their advertising.

Here’s a tip which may help though, install a hosts file on your PC that blocks their advertising - okay, it wont fix all the issues.

Just these may work (not sure)

127.0.0.1 ads.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com

Alternatively - visit here http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm where there’s plenty of information and a good hosts file you can use.

By: Facebook: fix your load times « Jared Tame @ Phunctional

Facebook: fix your load times « Jared Tame @ Phunctional — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:02:21 +0000

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By: Udi

Udi — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:45:47 +0000

If you want a fix, I’d suggest forwarding a link to this post to Facebook. They’re the only ones that can fix this issue.

By: Nico

Nico — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:38:20 +0000

Same from Switzerland (MUCH slower since abt 3 weeks, timeouts, etc.)…

But indeed, apart from the good feeling of not being the only one with the problme, quite a useless post (what is the fix?)