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Firefox is incredibly slow. Running Firefox on 2MB cable is about the same speed as Explorer on dial up. Why is this, and is there anything I can do to improve this?

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This is something that started from the first time I used Firefox, but has gotten steadily worse.

This is something that started from the first time I used Firefox, but has gotten steadily worse.

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What are you running as far as a security suite and / or a Firewall?

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because i have the same problem i use avg.do you have found the source of the problem?

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Actually, I have solved the problem by using Firefox in "safe mode". Not sure why this solves the problem, but it runs much faster.