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Firefox is slow to open, sometimes random links don't work, sometimes the back button doesn't work, and other assorted ridiculousness.

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Out of nowhere, Firefox started taking forever to open... sometimes as much as 45 seconds - 1 minute. Frequently it will suddenly not respond to links on a certain page, often involving desirable pop-ups that have worked in the past. If I click multiple times, sometimes I am later (more than 5 minutes) besieged by multiple pop-ups, although they rarely display correctly. Sometimes the back button won't work. If I quit Firefox, it sometimes takes forever to close, or the window will close, but the app will still be open. I've tried disabling add-ons, and opening in safe mode, etc. Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== It felt like it.

Out of nowhere, Firefox started taking forever to open... sometimes as much as 45 seconds - 1 minute. Frequently it will suddenly not respond to links on a certain page, often involving desirable pop-ups that have worked in the past. If I click multiple times, sometimes I am later (more than 5 minutes) besieged by multiple pop-ups, although they rarely display correctly. Sometimes the back button won't work. If I quit Firefox, it sometimes takes forever to close, or the window will close, but the app will still be open. I've tried disabling add-ons, and opening in safe mode, etc. Any ideas? Thanks for your help. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == It felt like it.

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AnonymousUser
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I've got exactly the same problem with Firefox 3.6.3 after upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04. Cleaning ~/.mozilla and creating it from scratch did fix it.

flabdablet
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Do either of you have the Zotero extension installed? If so, what happens if you use Tools->Add-ons to disable it? I'm seeing this behavior on a fleet of school computers and it goes away when I turn off Zotero.