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Why is my Firefox 3 so slow??
Why is my Firefox3 so slow? I have all the updates, did a full virus and spyware scan (everything was clean), and yet it takes at least a minute for my homepage, which is just google to load. I noticed that Firefox has been getting increasingly slower for me, but now it's ridiculous that it has trouble loading google!
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Inappropriate?have your tried the fasterfox 3.0.3 extension? -
Inappropriate?I'm running redhat linux firefox 3.0.6. It has a problem with slow scrolling, slow rendering (of javascript heavy pages perhaps), and it grabs the CPU when doing these things. This is very annoying because firefox 2 was completely fine. now i want to go back to it, but i'm worried about config changes that may have occurred in the "upgrade" that will be a pain to reverse.
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You may find https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... useful for unnecessary javascript on pages.
Also for slow scrolling, install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... then get the userscript that removes position: fixed backgrounds - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4... -
Inappropriate?I had this problem a few times. Each time I found it was do to having the history browser open behind my other windows, once closed Firefox wasn't so slow anymore.
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Inappropriate?People are talking about Mozilla slow when working.
I don't have that problem. My problem is that it takes two to three minutes to boot up. None of my other major programs take more than a few seconds when I click on the icon.
Anybody else having this problem? -
Inappropriate?Tried clearing all history? Or if that doesnt work I suggest you download what finanzas says ;-D
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?How many add-ons do you have? Also, limit the MB which Firefox uses in its Preferences. Cutting down on how many bookmarks and add-ons you have greatly increase its startup time. My Firefox used to take over 2 minutes to pop up. I cut my bookmarks to below 100, and my add-ons to below 10, and now it pops up in about 5 seconds.
I’m confident
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I have no addons and less than 50 bookmarks and it takes like a minute or two to open. I just can use that! It is TO slow! I have to use I.E.!
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The number of fonts you have installed on your system also affects the startup time. More than 50 could be noticable.
Also, there are people working on speeding up the startup time so it will only get better in future. -
I havn't installed any fonts.
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Will, how many fonts are in the \Windows\Fonts\ folder?
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