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Firefox slower than cold tar
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:41 pm
by Red_5
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?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:28 pm
by Duper
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:32 pm
by EngDrewman
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:09 pm
by thewolfe
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:15 pm
by fliptw
do you normally leave firefox open?
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:15 pm
by Zantor
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:24 pm
by Red_5
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.
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:46 pm
by Red_5
Nothing helped... We got Comcast High Speed a few days ago and if anything, now it's just slower...
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 8:01 pm
by Krom
I would uninstall and reinstall a clean copy, and defrag of course.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 6:54 am
by Octopus
I love how no one here is saying, \"Well then stick with IE7!\"
Nooo don't go back to IE!
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 7:49 am
by Red_5
I just gave up and installed Google Chrome... We'll see how that goes...
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:58 am
by Zantor
Suit yourself. Did you contact Mozilla to see if they could help you?
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:52 am
by Red_5
They told me everything I've already heard in this thread... I'm liking Chrome though. It's pretty cool.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 11:01 am
by Jeff250
Have you tried Firefox in safe mode?
at a terminal
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 4:58 pm
by Red_5
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
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 5:14 pm
by Red_5
Okay, turned off image loading and it's lightning fast now...
Piece of crap...
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:26 pm
by Krom
Try running ccleaner (or clear private data in firefox). Flush all the caches and everything, also uninstall any unused browser add-ons and toolbars.
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:45 pm
by Sirius
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.)
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:03 pm
by Duper
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.
Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:33 pm
by Red_5
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