sachs Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 In my very well maintained MiniCompaq, I started to get a slow Firefox browsing. So, I started to delete every addon; lowing the model up to 3.5 with disabled auto updates. I am using 3.5. The pages charging takes an instant to start and then, stop for another instant almost at the end. I tried Opera that was faster but didn't functoon as I wanted; Chrome didn't like it. I strongly thank any help that's not already in Google, as for example anipulating Firefox Config, that showed to be absolutely unusefull. I am surprised. Many thanks and friendly regards. "There are atoms and gap; the rest is opinion" (Democritus, many centuries before Hume and Kant) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhawk Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 There are many factors that can influence the speed of web browsers: - poor network connectivity - too many programs pegging the CPU or hung processes - excessive disk activity (virus scanners, defragging etc) Until your have check your system responsiveness it's hard to say what the problem is with Firefox. Richard S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ishan_rulz Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 This isn't really a fix but a suggestion... if you aren't using Addons, might as well try Firefox 4 BETA. See how that works out for you. Simplicity is hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted October 14, 2010 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2010 Try running Firefox in "Safe Mode" ... Start\All Programs\Mozilla Firefox\Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode) This disables all extensions and themes. You could then also try disabling plugins, which Safe Mode doesn't do ... "Tools\Add-ons\Plugins", and just disable each one. I don't know if you have to restart Firefox to make the plug-ins disabled, but I would do that anyway to make sure. This will eliminate everything in Firefox from being the cause of the slowness issue, or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aethec Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Type this in a command prompt (Start >> Run >> cmd): "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P or "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P if you use a 64-bit version of Windows. Create a new profile, select the old one and then delete it. This can be useful when your profile becomes corrupt. Piriform French translator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sachs Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 I obsessivly clean my Mini and my desk one. I will see. Many thanks and cheers. There are many factors that can influence the speed of web browsers: - poor network connectivity - too many programs pegging the CPU or hung processes - excessive disk activity (virus scanners, defragging etc) Until your have check your system responsiveness it's hard to say what the problem is with Firefox. Richard S. "There are atoms and gap; the rest is opinion" (Democritus, many centuries before Hume and Kant) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sachs Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 That command doesn't exist apparently in XP Home. Many thanks and regards. Type this in a command prompt (Start >> Run >> cmd): "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P or "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P if you use a 64-bit version of Windows. Create a new profile, select the old one and then delete it. This can be useful when your profile becomes corrupt. "There are atoms and gap; the rest is opinion" (Democritus, many centuries before Hume and Kant) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sachs Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 Beta functioned for me pretty well, but a very close American friend from other forum almost kills me and adviced me to uninstall it inmediately. I think I will install it again for it got very well. What troubles might I have? Sincere regards and thanks. This isn't really a fix but a suggestion... if you aren't using Addons, might as well try Firefox 4 BETA. See how that works out for you. "There are atoms and gap; the rest is opinion" (Democritus, many centuries before Hume and Kant) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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