Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Tried defrag and cleanup.

What sort of system utility do you recommend?

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Run a good disk degrag with Diskkeeper 9 executive ( cost a bit but well worth it. )

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Found a copy of Diskkeeper on Download.com I will give it a try now.
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Diskkeeper hasn't made a change.

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Has it done anything in windows?

Right another if you have removed anything to do with Firefox or possibly something else, try and get a registry cleaner software and run that, also I assume you have done spyware scans like normal and anti virus.

May be worthwhile reverting Firefox to default values where you can in case something has gone amis?

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

I have done a format and used the MozBackup feature and I think the thing that is slowing down FireFox is my profile so I will create a new one later on and see if that solves it.

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Profile??

I am using Firefox just as it was out of the tin with only a theme added to match my windows one?

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Your profile is what retains all your firefox settings.
It may have got sorrupt so its a good idea to try creating a new one.
Good luck.

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Fixed it, just removed and tided my book marks up a little and it seems to be ok touch wood. Odd really.

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Now what did I tell you? ;)

Glad you got it fixed :)

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

altis must of overlooked that one.

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Glad all is working for you again.
Sometimes a small thing can cause a thousand problems. Its good you finally found out what it was.

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

Talking of causing problems I have lost data when wiping, did back it up to a DVD but never checked it restored properly! That's another thread when I get around to it.

Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
 

I had the same problem with Windows and Firefox, turned out to be the downloads (Tools/Downloads) which I hadn't removed (Cleaned Up), seems Firefox keeps them in memory until you press the Clean Up button, eventually brought the whole system to a crawl. I have never had the problem with the Linux version, but then it's not Microsoft Linux :dig: