mine used to be fast but it slowed down
i have:
broadband comcast high speed internet with 5 bars up
2 gb ram 1.73 GHz and still like 100 gb of memory free
0 viruses and spyware free
cleaned temporary files and disk defrag
the only addon installed is faster fox
the rest of my computer is fast but firefox
i also reinstalled it and installed it again
colanth, i was talking about hard drive memory your talking about ram
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Jake // Jun 2, 2008
I actually used faster fox and it wasn't the best and i have had issues of loading pages slowly, try uninstalling the faster fox add-on and see if that helps.
2 trevbrat03 // Jun 2, 2008
it is the temp foles that make it slow but you could go into the windows temp and clear them out.
Maybe you have some spyware that you need to get rid of
3 Colanth // Jun 2, 2008
First, I doubt that you have 100GB of total memory, let alone 100GB of free memory. Most motherboards today don't even support 16GB total.
Second, the more add-ons you have looking at pages, the longer they take to load. Also, if you're sort on memory, or on GDI space, Firefox will run slower.
Also, Firefox appears to have a memory leak under certain conditions. If it runs fine for a while, then slows down, just close it, then open it again. (If you don't want to lose track of which tabs you have open, use Session Manager, save the current session, close FF, open FF and load the session you saved.)
4 montecristo // Jun 2, 2008
Here is a hack to make firefox faster:
http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/understandyourbrowser/ht/firefoxhack.htm
Tried it and it works. Also get rid of some of your extensions that you don't use, they hog firefox. Here is another wonder that most people don't know, but yours truly always looking out for you, it is called firefox optimizer. You have to see it for yourself to believe it: http://felipex.net/2007/11/08/firefox-ultimate-optimizer-v11/
The site is in Spanish but the program is English. Just remember "Descargar" means to download. The creator, FelipEX gives it away for free. It is an exe file and you can see how much resources firefox is hogging by pressing control, alt, delete and process. See before firefox optimizer and after optimizer.
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