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The new updated version of Firefox 10 is so crappy no matter what i do it freezes my high end laptop.

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sickman12
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The new updated version of Firefox 10 is so crappy no matter what i do it freezes my high end laptop. don't ask me if i have disabled the add ons or increasing the cache time. I did all that its crashing and freezing my whole PC with high CPU and Hard disk usuage. i'll discontinue using this u should end this project too

The new updated version of Firefox 10 is so crappy no matter what i do it freezes my high end laptop. don't ask me if i have disabled the add ons or increasing the cache time. I did all that its crashing and freezing my whole PC with high CPU and Hard disk usuage. i'll discontinue using this u should end this project too

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finitarry
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You could try disabling hardware acceleration. If you are unable to access the setting in Options > Advanced > General, you could change the setting for "layers.acceleration.disabled" to true in the prefs.js file in the profile.