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Firefox 14.0.1 slow to switch tabs

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Peter
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I open the following tabs each day to get my "Tech News Fix". Switching between tabs with Firefox 14.0.1 is MUCH slower than with the previous of Firefox.

Ars Technica 

   http://arstechnica.com/

BetaNews 

   http://www.betanews.com/

BetaNews - New Software Downloads 

   http://fileforum.betanews.com/

Building Windows 8 - MSDN Blogs 

   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/

File Hippo - Download Free Software 

   http://www.filehippo.com/

Official Google Blog 

   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

OSNews.com - Exploring the Future of Computing 

   http://www.osnews.com/

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows 

   http://www.winsupersite.com/

Smashing Magazine 

   http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World 

   http://www.theregister.co.uk/

Whirlpool - Australian Broadband News 

   http://www.whirlpool.net.au/

Windows 8 app developer blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs 

   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/

When a new tab is selected the browser pane is blank for several seconds before the page content loads.

I hope you can help.

I open the following tabs each day to get my "Tech News Fix". Switching between tabs with Firefox 14.0.1 is MUCH slower than with the previous of Firefox. Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/ BetaNews http://www.betanews.com/ BetaNews - New Software Downloads http://fileforum.betanews.com/ Building Windows 8 - MSDN Blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/ File Hippo - Download Free Software http://www.filehippo.com/ Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ OSNews.com - Exploring the Future of Computing http://www.osnews.com/ Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows http://www.winsupersite.com/ Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World http://www.theregister.co.uk/ Whirlpool - Australian Broadband News http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ Windows 8 app developer blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/ When a new tab is selected the browser pane is blank for several seconds before the page content loads. I hope you can help.

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You most likely have on demand loading enabled. Click the Firefox button in the upper left hand corner. Then click Options. Click on the Tabs section. Uncheck "Don't load tabs until Selected".

Then restart Firefox.

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user633449
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Chosen Solution

You most likely have on demand loading enabled. Click the Firefox button in the upper left hand corner. Then click Options. Click on the Tabs section. Uncheck "Don't load tabs until Selected".

Then restart Firefox.

Peter
Peter Question owner
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Tyler,

Thanks for the reply - it seems to have worked. For anyone else looking at this thread, the option Tyler mentions is on the "General" tab rather than the "Tabs" tab. It also takes some mucking around to un-click the "Don't load..." setting.

I had to select the "Show my windows..." option from the "When Firefox starts:" setting. Then I could un-click the "Don't load..." setting. Then you can re-set what ever you were using for the "When Firefox starts:" setting.

Regards, Peter

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