- Firefox super slow and freezing install#
- Firefox super slow and freezing portable#
- Firefox super slow and freezing password#
In case you’re interested to know which add-ons I use: Clear Cache Button, Remove Cookie(s) for Site, Firebug, Flashblock, Flashbug, Googlepedia, Password Exporter, Define, and a few others I can’t recall at this moment. I hope this helps someone who, like me, was going mad trying to figure out why Firefox performed so poorly. I’ve been running with all add-ons enabled except Firebug for the past week and I’m happy to report Firefox is still snappy without a single restart. For me, Firefox would start out somewhat snappy, then slow down as the day progressed and start suffering horribly as the days passed. I tried out the add-ons bit by bit to try to narrow down which one was slowing it down…Īnd the loser is? Firebug! Even though the latest versions of Firebug say it’s disabled unless you open it, something is going on. Then, I started enabling a few add-ons at a time. It honestly felt like a whole, fresh new browser. As you can guess, just like starting a new profile, disabling all the add-ons made Firefox spring back to life. I don’t know why it took me so long but I finally disabled every single add-on I had installed. The truth is, none of these are required. Many web-pages that I use regularly cause Firefox to freeze up for around 10-20 seconds before it is usable again. My second recommendation was to manage some advanced settings. It takes around 45 seconds to have a usable window after I click on Firefox in the launcher: 15-20 seconds for a window to show, and then 25-30 seconds of a blank window before it is usable. My first recommendation was to start a new profile. I was wrong but I was on the right track. In two previous posts, I thought I had found the fix for firefox slowing down, hitching and freezing. I was even relegating Firefox to a few main tasks and using Mozilla Seamonkey (sans add-ons) for miscellaneous surfing. But Firefox has been suffering for a long time and I had no idea what it was until now. No other browser has the right set of add-ons and so I’ve never switched. I'm getting progessively more annoyed with adobe/macromedia division.Firefox has been driving me crazy for the last year or two. LastProfileDirectory=U:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data\profile
The old one does.įor the record, the main installation had: Now it works from everywhere again.Ī second symptom of the newer flash is that the firefox plugin-container.exe does not get flushed from memory when firefox exits.
Firefox super slow and freezing portable#
(btw, it did not appear on the portable apps menu.) Since I wrote the last post, I found an older flash nswf32.dll and got rid of the new ones.
Firefox super slow and freezing install#
No, the regular firefoxportable install did not work either. Thanks for thinking about what might be wrong. U:\PortableApps\Firefox_Mktg_482\App\AppInfo\appinfo.iniĭescription=A secondary profile for Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition U:\PortableApps\Firefox_Mktg_482\Data\FirefoxPortable.INIįirefoxDirectory=.\.\FirefoxPortable\App\firefox Starting from menu item it hangs on youtube! When I run it in safe-mode by changing the command in the ini file, it was still hanging. The first ones from the remote siteĪnd later ones from adblock plus. If I let it sit long enough, as in 10 minutes, I start to get Maybe it's my local university network stopping it. Today, at this moment, it is working properly, but I have thought that it was OK before, only to have it hang the next time I access it from a different machine. The menu is the portable apps launcher menu by the way and it is Even Edge works better than Firefox, it's still slow but at least pages can open. I didn't think it should make any difference either, but it does! Since I upgraded Firefox seems to want to take forever to open, or in some cases will not even open, any website.