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

[sean ritzler]

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,  <joe at actionline.com> 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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