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Freshly installed Firefox runs very slow and stucks often

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Hi, so I thought I should try and install FireFox. But I noticed that it's super slow although I just installed it. All Add-Ons I'm using are PrivacyBadger, EnhandedYouTube and AdBlock. Disabling any did not fix my issue. I often encounter super long loading times or FF freezes for a couple of seconds. RAM and CPU usage are ok, 200mb RAM and +-5% CPU. Doesn't matter if a game is running or not, it's always the same with the "lags" and long loading times. In between it's super fast for a brief moment but then it's slow again. Since I'm no expert I have no real idea what could cause the issue, so if you need any more info just ask and I try to provide it.

Oh and I forgot to add: whenever I open a YT Video and change tab, it plays not even 1 second and then automatically pauses.

Hi, so I thought I should try and install FireFox. But I noticed that it's super slow although I just installed it. All Add-Ons I'm using are PrivacyBadger, EnhandedYouTube and AdBlock. Disabling any did not fix my issue. I often encounter super long loading times or FF freezes for a couple of seconds. RAM and CPU usage are ok, 200mb RAM and +-5% CPU. Doesn't matter if a game is running or not, it's always the same with the "lags" and long loading times. In between it's super fast for a brief moment but then it's slow again. Since I'm no expert I have no real idea what could cause the issue, so if you need any more info just ask and I try to provide it. Oh and I forgot to add: whenever I open a YT Video and change tab, it plays not even 1 second and then automatically pauses.

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Try to uninstall Adblock Plus and use uBlock Origin instead. Adblock Plus has been reported to cause issues like you reported.

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Well thanks, the slow performance issue is resolved, but the video thing is still there. Any idea on that?

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When multi-process windows in Firefox is enabled then Firefox will use more memory and may be less responsive.

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'll be careful" to continue.