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RamboJunior
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Firefox slow

Hi All,

I have a SanDisk Cruzer (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBTBjr4w24reXwnII-...)

4GB, my problem is someway only the Firefox which is running extremely slow, it hangs and not responding and takes ages to open up a new page or change from one tab to another.

I formatted the drive and copid back all of my data issue still exist.

The used space is only about 300 MB.

Any ideas how can I resolve this?

Thanks!

Regards,
Zoltán

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Cache

it sounds like you have disk cache. turn it back off. disk cache from an average flash drive will slow firefox down.

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Hi, I did this: Open

Hi,

I did this:

Open Firefox. Go to the address bar, type about:config and hit [Enter].
It might warn you not to play around. Click “I’ll be careful, I promise!”
Type “prefetch” into the search box. You should see an option called “network.prefetch-next” which you can double-click to change to “false.”
Search for “cache.disk” this time. Change “browser.cache.disk.enable” to “false” and change “browser.cache.disk.capacity” to “0.”
Close and re-open Firefox.
Hit [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [Delete] to bring up the “Clear Recent History” box. Change your time range to “Everything” and make sure “Cache” is checked. This erases the entire disk cache.
For the really paranoid, install CCleaner (don’t install anything else it offers to install while you do it), find the “Wipe Free Space” option at the bottom of the left column, right-click on it, and choose “clean.” (It might warn you that it’s going to delete stuff, but proceed anyway.) This erases the contents of all of the empty space on the hard drive, including anything that was in the disk cache you just deleted and anything that has ever been deleted from the computer.
[Update for newer Firefox versions] Firefox stores thumbnails of pages you visit for the new “New Tab” page previews. To get rid of this while you’re in about:config, right-click somewhere and go to New -> Boolean, call it browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled and set it to true.

But FF is still not that fast still doin the not responding thing. Sad

Any other settings I can change?

Thanks for your support!

Regards,
Zoltán

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also, do you use the Firebug addon?

I've seen reports that the Firebug addon is causing very similar problems to what you've reported.

Apparently the current solution is to turn off the Script Panel (and only turn it back on when you need it on a page)

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I have no FireBug addon

I have no FireBug addon installed.

Turned off as many add-on as I can.

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