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Been using the Fox for a long while now, but had to switch to chrome cuz it becoming VERy slow on a Mac. Please help The Fox!!

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Firefox is becoming very slow, and it slows my Mac. I am considering going back to version 3 but are currently on Chrome.

Firefox is becoming very slow, and it slows my Mac. I am considering going back to version 3 but are currently on Chrome.

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Firebug is at least part of your problem. Disable it when not in use and consider setting up a separate profile just for it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions