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I have tried all the above and Firefox has been slow for years. I cant watch movies not even on youtube and facebook crashes. It takes about 20 minutes start up

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Playing vids on youtube and some other sites: When I enlage the screen the vid laggs When I start my P.C up it takes about 20 minutes because of all the memory Firefox uses Facebook crashes

Playing vids on youtube and some other sites: When I enlage the screen the vid laggs When I start my P.C up it takes about 20 minutes because of all the memory Firefox uses Facebook crashes

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Hi

Thank you for your question.

I can see that you are using Windows Vista, which suggests that you have an older PC. Have you used the housekeeping tools included with Windows to clear out temporary files and have run the defragmentation utility to speed it up a little?