Disclaimer.. I work at Mozilla.. the official SUMO recommendation on this is to reset your profile. Beware - saved passwords, bookmarks, etc are all contained in your profile. You can export them, reset it, and reimport. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:48 PM, wrote: > My system has all the latest updates for Linux Mint including the latest > available Firefox 27.0.1 for Linux Mint. > > However, for quite some time, I have had ongoing problems with Firefox > being very slow ... too often, frustratingly slow. It usually takes about > 15 seconds for the Firefox browser to start. But once started, I can > open an additional session in about 5 seconds. > > And, the longer I run my system without hard rebooting, the slower > Firefox gets. Even to shut down KDE and restart it doesn't seem to help. > > Chrome, on the other hand, always boots up in less than 2 seconds. > > Also, from time to time, I get a pop-up that tells me to "Close Firefox" > ( see this link: http://www.upquick.com/temp/ff1.jpg ) yet there is no > indication of any Firefox functions running. So, hard reboot again. > > What can I do to speed up Firefox? > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- - Brian