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Firefox is running extremly slow while IE is running at normal speed.

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gilcarleton
gilcarleton
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Firefox is running so slow that I have been over an hour trying to post this question. My characters while typing are delayed several seconds and when I try to scroll down a page, there is several seconds of delay between each line. Changing pages takes forever. it was working fine and I have no idea what happened. Ran a virus and malware scan on computer but showed no problem. Hate iE so please help.





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Firefox is running so slow that I have been over an hour trying to post this question. My characters while typing are delayed several seconds and when I try to scroll down a page, there is several seconds of delay between each line. Changing pages takes forever. it was working fine and I have no idea what happened. Ran a virus and malware scan on computer but showed no problem. Hate iE so please help. h

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Separate Issue; Update your Shockwave Flash v15.0.0.152 http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

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Muhammad_Faizan
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Hello gilcarleton

Visit this Page for Solution https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/fix-problems/slowness-or-hanging

I hope this will work.

gilcarleton
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I visited this page before I posted my question and none would help.

FredMcD
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Chosen Solution

Separate Issue; Update your Shockwave Flash v15.0.0.152 http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/

FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode;

Type about:preferences<Enter> in the address bar

Select Advanced > General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?

Then restart.

gilcarleton
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Thanks. I updated flashplayer earlier today and that seemed to take care of the problem. I will also update shockwave.

Best wishes,

Gil