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I have to move my mouse constantly to make FireFox respond

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I think I am using FireFox 35.0. It is very slow and I have to move my mouse constantly to make it respond. What should I do? i probably don't need all the add-ons, but I don't know which ones to disable/delete or how to do it.

I think I am using FireFox 35.0. It is very slow and I have to move my mouse constantly to make it respond. What should I do? i probably don't need all the add-ons, but I don't know which ones to disable/delete or how to do it.

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A possible cause is malware on your computer.


Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer. Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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