Slow Firefox

Published on October 17, 2014 By kona0197 In Personal Computing

So Firefox is very, very slow to load pages. I was curious if anyone knew how to speed it up.

The system I am working on:

Intel Pentium dual-core E5400, 2.7 GHz
4 GB DDR2-800 RAM
120 GB Seagate hard drive
Nvidia 7400 video crad, 256 MB video RAM

Fresh install of Windows 7, service park 1 and all updates installed, all drivers are current.

Firefox version 33

Add-ons installed:

Adblock Plus version 2.6.5
Element Hiding Helper for Adblock
Facebook Purity
FasterFox Lite version 3.9.9
Reload Tab on Double Click
Weather Forecast 0.1.4
X-Notifier 3.4.7

Memory usage with Gmail, Facebook, MTBR (Mountain Biking forum), Fedora Forum (Linux Forum), and Wincustomize is around 488 MB.

Any ideas???

Comments

bmetelsky

on Oct 18, 2014

Did you clear your browser cache? Also, I would suggest loading FF without any add-on's and then adding them back one at a time to see if one of them may be causing some problem.

If all else fails, you can save your bookmarks using MozBackup, uninstall FF, and reinstall.

Daiwa

on Oct 18, 2014

If you are perhaps referring to how slow JU & WC have been loading the past few days, that's probably not your browser. For some reason, today JU loads very quickly - took me by surprise, actually, I'm so used to it taking a minute.

kona0197

on Oct 18, 2014

Yeah, WC has always been the slowest page to load for me for some time now. Facebook loads OK, but lags when scrolling the news feed to the point that Firefox almost crashes.

Daiwa

on Oct 18, 2014

Don't know what changed but today JU is lightning fast. Like a real website, even.

Daiwa

on Oct 18, 2014

Well, speedy loading was nice while it lasted. Now back in quicksand.

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