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Firefox runs progressively slower as it goes on and the cache fills up very quickly. What can I do?

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ChrisRams
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As it says. My Firefox is on for about 12 hours a day but after about 2 or 3 hours it keeps stopping and the revolving circle comes on for a while. This is particulary bad in Facebook. The cache is set to 500meg but fills up after about 3 hours too.

I don't get this problem when using Edge browser.

What can I do? Firefox and Facebook are both fully up to date.

As it says. My Firefox is on for about 12 hours a day but after about 2 or 3 hours it keeps stopping and the revolving circle comes on for a while. This is particulary bad in Facebook. The cache is set to 500meg but fills up after about 3 hours too. I don't get this problem when using Edge browser. What can I do? Firefox and Facebook are both fully up to date.

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Shadow110
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Update your graphics card drivers please as they are from 2016. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/86210/Intel-HD-Graphics-5500

The optimal cache size is default 350megs.

Ok, I deleted or have filled my notepad to the max and can not find commands that I am looking for. Am trying to turn off Safe Browsing Version 4 (temporary add-on) 1.0.0 (sbv4-gradual-rollout@mozilla.com)

Since running Win 10 how about just uninstall Firefox and install from a Full Version 56.0.1 Installer https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

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

cor-el
cor-el
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The disk cache getting filled up is quite normal and shouldn't cause any problems. When Firefox gets slower then this usually indicates a memory problem and it is likely that Firefox is using (too) much memory. You can check the memory usage on the about:memory page. See also:

You can try to modify multi-process settings to see if this has effect.

  • set dom.ipc.processCount to 1 if it is currently set to a higher value (4)
  • disable multi-process windows in Firefox

You can disable multi-process windows in Firefox by setting these prefs to false on the about:config page.

  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart = false
  • browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.