ok firefox has been working perfectly for the last couple months and then randomly yesterday it started going really slow. Everytime i try to use it it keeps saying waiting for yahoo.com or whatever site im on. it does it with every site and it takes a loooong time to load the page if it even does. Internet explorer works its a lil slow but it works im just trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with firefox. can someone help please?????
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1 truckie from downunder // May 20, 2008
maybe you have used your limit downloads for the month and your now on a slower service. or turn off your modem for five minutes then restart it try that good luck…
2 ComputerFreak // May 20, 2008
<<<<try to dellte the cookies, trackers, history & temp.>>>>>
1)go to run & type "temp" dellte every file possible. ehile explorer is closed.
2) go to run & type "%temp%" which is diffrent & dellete all files possible. while explorer is closed.
3) go to internet explorer & go to internet options & delete the cookies & history & everything possible.
4) go to firefox in "c:/program files/firefox/temp" dellete the temp while firefox is closed .
that wouls solve the problem.
3 Alex D // May 20, 2008
Try this profile Fix
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#To_fix_the_problem_in_the_original_profile
(That link is the official website that deals with that problem…)
If that doesn't work, then Reinstall Firefox
I had it happened to me before, I went and cleaned everything that was in my firefox.
Some Add ons can slow down you Firefox =(
4 malflips // May 20, 2008
Yeah, that has happened to me too lately. I don't know what to tell you except run updates on your computer and use whatever protection program you have to see if anything is wrong.
Most recently my Firefox has suddenly been working fine.
5 Francesca Thomas // May 20, 2008
I am having the same problem with IE 7 and it is ONLY with yahoo. Every other website I visit works fine, but YAHOO is VERY slow.
I have been clearing out my cache twice or more every day. I shouldnt have to so it more than once a day.
6 spywaredr // May 20, 2008
Firefox Slow Page Load - Solved
A co-worker showed me an interesting problem with Firefox today. He loaded a page from our application (running on localhost) and the page content loaded instantly, but the page load itself didn’t end until a time out 20 seconds later. Literally.
Everything we saw a measured from the browser or from the sending application showed that the content was sent in milliseconds, and the page load was just sitting there doing nothing. We were even using the latest Firefox beta.
Other browsers had no such problem.
Turns out, we figured out what was going on using the Tamper Data add-on.
Turns out there was a Connection: keep-alive in the header. When we changed it from keep-alive to close, the browser behaved as expected. That is, it loaded the page instantly.
A little web investigation showed that when you use the keep-alive attribute, you must also use Content-Length: header, which the sending application wasn’t doing.
A quick application tweak to send the content length, and everything ran super spiffy.
Now, if you don’t have access to the application that’s sending you web pages, you can twiddle with the about:config and change the network.http.keep-alive setting to false.
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