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My Firefox has been very slow or stops working for a period every since June.

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Firefox has been very slow or stops working for a period every since June. Memory usage is over 500,000k. unchecked Hardware feature and reinstalled it. Still the same. Is something I can do?

Firefox has been very slow or stops working for a period every since June. Memory usage is over 500,000k. unchecked Hardware feature and reinstalled it. Still the same. Is something I can do?

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hello, that kind of memory usage is in a normal range and shouldn't be related to a slowness issue. could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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philipp said

hello, that kind of memory usage is in a normal range and shouldn't be related to a slowness issue. could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

Application Basics


Name: Firefox Version: 38.0.5 Build ID: 20150525141253 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (default: false)

Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days


All Crash Reports (including 1 pending crash in the given time range)

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JavaScript


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Accessibility


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Experimental Features


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thank you. does updating flash and your other plugins make a difference?

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philipp said

thank you. does updating flash and your other plugins make a difference?

No, it still happening. I did update everything.