Re: Why is Firefox so slow? How to speed it up?

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Author: Stephen
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To: keith smith, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Why is Firefox so slow? How to speed it up?
I have not been a fan of the bleeding edge of FF so i have dropped back to
FF ESR which is a much more stable release cycle. but in general it has
been rather quick, but i know plug ins, add ins, and scripts on the page
can cause issues.


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:49 AM, keith smith <> wrote:

>
> I think there is a way to disable all your plug in kinda like a "safe
> mode". You might try that to see if it is a plug in.
>
> I have continued issues with the flash plugin in FF that I have not had
> time to resolve. It causes slow page loads and sometimes hangs
> altogether.
>
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
>
> On Thursday, October 24, 2013 6:42 AM, sean ritzler <
> > wrote:
> No, Firefox is not a victim of "bloatware." Your issue is obviously
> not normal behavior.
>
> I have seen Firefox start slowly when my DHCP server was handing out
> one good DNS server and one bad DNS server. Firefox hung for a bit
> while trying to communicate with the bad server. I was able to find
> the cause with strace - you should try the same, or tell us some
> actual specs/relevant output before talking about bloatware! :-)
>
> Sean
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:55 PM, <> wrote:
> > Each time I start-up Firefox, it takes about 13 seconds for it to load.
> >
> > Chrome takes less than 2 seconds.
> >
> > Has Firefox become another victim of bloatware?
> >
> > I have done all of the about:config "fixes" that I can find, but FF is
> > still ridiculously slow.
> >
> > Is there something I'm missing that I can do to speed it up?
> >
> >
> >
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