Firefox slower than cold tar

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:41 pm

So as of late Firefox 3.0.8 has gotten slower and slower and slower until now I can't even get in to my Facebook and other sites. IE 7 works just fine, but I prefer the Firefox setup/security.

Any tweaks, configs, blah blah blah that will help me out?

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:28 pm

try c-cleaner

general cleaning utility. does nice things for your cache.

or you can just clear out your personal data and cache ans such manually.

EngDrewman · Post by **EngDrewman** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:32 pm

try Google Chrome. I never thought I'd ever recommend a browser other than FF, but lately it has just been getting so slooooow. Chrome is like greased lighting by comparison. Still new, so it still has a few bugs, but overall I love it.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:09 pm

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... ast-468317

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:15 pm

do you normally leave firefox open?

Zantor · Post by **Zantor** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:15 pm

Firefox is the best.

I find Firefox has issues with consecutive uptime (being open for days or hours on end); I have found its limit is at about 2 or 3 days.

Try CCleaner and closing the browser when you are done surfing/browsing. You might also try reinstalling Firefox (after backing up your bookmarks) to see if that helps.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:24 pm

I only ever have it open for at most 2 hours at a time. I'll try those links out when I'm on my computer.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Tue May 12, 2009 7:46 pm

Nothing helped... We got Comcast High Speed a few days ago and if anything, now it's just slower...

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:01 pm

I would uninstall and reinstall a clean copy, and defrag of course.

Octopus · Post by **Octopus** » Wed May 13, 2009 6:54 am

I love how no one here is saying, \"Well then stick with IE7!\"

Nooo don't go back to IE!

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Wed May 13, 2009 7:49 am

I just gave up and installed Google Chrome... We'll see how that goes...

Zantor · Post by **Zantor** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:58 am

Suit yourself. Did you contact Mozilla to see if they could help you?

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:52 am

They told me everything I've already heard in this thread... I'm liking Chrome though. It's pretty cool.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:01 am

Have you tried Firefox in safe mode?

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firefox -safe-mode

at a terminal

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:58 pm

No dice... strangely enough it's now only Facebook that's having problems... it loads so slow on my computer, but perfectly fine on my laptop... everything else is dandy

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:14 pm

Okay, turned off image loading and it's lightning fast now...

Piece of crap...

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:26 pm

Try running ccleaner (or clear private data in firefox). Flush all the caches and everything, also uninstall any unused browser add-ons and toolbars.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:45 pm

Usual suspects for making it slow seem to be

Cache
Download history
Browsing history

(Although they only slow down certain parts of the app for me.)

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:03 pm

incidently, CCleaner has added a nifty little \"advanced\" feature called \"Wipe Free Space\". It over writes all \"unused\" hard drive space. It made some kind of difference because when I re-defraged after running it, it took some time to complete.... longer than normal.

Red_5 · Post by **Red_5** » Tue May 19, 2009 9:33 pm

Done done done...

Still oozing along with images, fine without. Yeah I give up, I'll just use Chrome whenever I want to view a page with images or something. Or my iPod Touch. Thanks for the help