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My Firefox browser is so slow.

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mitchrandall
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Tabs take forever to load Can't have many tabs open Firefox takes a long time to start Tabs will freeze and have to restart

Tabs take forever to load Can't have many tabs open Firefox takes a long time to start Tabs will freeze and have to restart

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FredMcD
FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

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


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

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-takes-long-time-start-up