I have a page that uses jQuery UI, and calls the datepicker on 2 different text boxes. Without the calls, ie. just loading the page without attaching any datepickers, the page loads in 1.20 seconds. With the datepickers attached, the page loads in 3.92 seconds. (this is in firefox)
How can I get this speed up? Based on the network graph in Firebug, it isn’t a network problem, but it seems to line in the datepicker attachments. Is there a way to speed this up?
Also, the behavior is only seen in Firefox 3.0.11. Chrome is quick and zippy, and so is IE7.
dfa had it correct in the comments to my main post. The problem was Firebug. I guess it just didn’t play nicely with the datepicker loading. Once firebug got turned off, page load times were around .5 seconds, right where they should be.