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Recent upgrade made Firefox useless -too slow

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The recent upgrade to Fire Fox is too slow to be used. Too bad I have used firefox for a long time.

The recent upgrade to Fire Fox is too slow to be used. Too bad I have used firefox for a long time.

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Please consider turning on send info to Mozilla before posting a question. This helps us help you. As I have no info from your system that would help see things that cause issues.

Try : Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+is+already+running+but+is+not+responding

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-many-cpu-resources-how-fix

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-responding

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

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NO!!! My problem is not fixed. Both Safemode and regular mode have the same problem. The program does not shutdown properly either. I Have to use Task Manager to close. I am using < 22% of the CPU and have plenty of memory. This version seems to use more memory. I am typing this using Google Chrome as Firefox is too dysfuctional to type anything. I wish I had my old version back. It worked OK . The send options in Fire fox are checked.

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Why did you guys do an upgrade that makes us have to uninstall, reinstall, delete directories, go into safe mode, on and on. This is a disaster. Roll it back.

Whoops, just found a solution to my problem: Chrome.

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I have this problem too. Since the upgrade my cheap smartphone is now faster than my desktop computer.