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Firefox loading extremely slowly in the last week

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  • Last reply by savandarm

martincessy
martincessy
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Since about a week ago Firefox has been REALLY slow to load pages. I have disabled all add-ons and tried all solutions found on the help pages which seem relevant, but no change. I downloaded the latest version 3.6.8, again no improvement.

This has happened on several different wifi networks and is the same on all. Safari is fast so it would seem to be a FF problem.

Any ideas?

Since about a week ago Firefox has been REALLY slow to load pages. I have disabled all add-ons and tried all solutions found on the help pages which seem relevant, but no change. I downloaded the latest version 3.6.8, again no improvement. This has happened on several different wifi networks and is the same on all. Safari is fast so it would seem to be a FF problem. Any ideas?

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picassomendez
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I have also tried to disable several plug-ins and that does not seem to help.

krash18
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I run Lucid Lynx, and all my add-ons are disabled, I have the same problem and use Chrome to connect to the internet as Firefox can't connect or cant load the pages I try to reach. Chrome is blazing fast on the system so I know it is Firefox and not my connection. been this way for almost a month now on all three of my computers.

vondetour
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i was using chrome until it slowed down and instilled firefox three days ago.now its slow as can be so firefox go to tools,options,networks,settings,check manual proxy configuration,in the HTTP proxy window type 1227.0.0.1 in port windows type 0 click OK,OK restart firefox and my problem is gone,firefox loads fast.

martincessy
martincessy Question owner
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thanks ... but I don't have an 'options' line in the Tools drop-down box. Am using version 3.6.8 on a Mac

savandarm
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My browser loads up but a Mozilla service as SVCHOST.exe hugs my cpu at 100/100 and cursor wont move for about 10 mins !!!!!!

I tried to reverse to previous vers 3.5 but..still no change.

Any idea as per limiting the action of this exe prg???