Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
23-08-2005, 01:21
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Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
Tried defrag and cleanup.
What sort of system utility do you recommend?
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23-08-2005, 01:23
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Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
Run a good disk degrag with Diskkeeper 9 executive ( cost a bit but well worth it. )
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23-08-2005, 01:51
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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.
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23-08-2005, 02:05
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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?
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26-08-2005, 16:34
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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.
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26-08-2005, 16:36
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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?
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26-08-2005, 16:41
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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.
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26-08-2005, 16:43
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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.
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26-08-2005, 16:57
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Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
Now what did I tell you? 
Glad you got it fixed 
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26-08-2005, 17:34
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Re: Firefox Is Slowing Down My PC
altis must of overlooked that one.
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26-08-2005, 21:02
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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.
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26-08-2005, 21:16
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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.
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27-08-2005, 09:10
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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 
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