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Why does it take Firefox so long to load when I first start the program?

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
Posted

Why does it take so long to open Firefox when selected?

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== has continually gotten slower for months. Last time it took 92 seconds.

Additional System Details

Installed Plug-ins

  • -Macromedia Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 8.5
  • Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
  • 1.9.0042.0
  • The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
  • Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 8.2.2
  • NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
  • Default Plug-in
  • Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42
  • Garmin Communicator Plug-In 2.8.3.0
  • Picasa plugin
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
  • Google Updater pluginhttp://pack.google.com/
  • Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_20 for Mozilla browsers
  • Npdsplay dll
  • DRM Store Netscape Plugin
  • DRM Netscape Network Object

Application

  • User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100611 Firefox/3.6.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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I operate on Comcast cable at 10mbs running XP. I like Firefox and I don't really want to go back to Explorer. I have the latest updates.

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AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser
Posted

Question owner

The problem remains, if not worsened, in 3.6.8.

dloconn
dloconn 0 solutions 1 answers
Posted

It takes a long...........time for Firefox to open, and when it opens, sometimes it shuts down, and is reaaaaaaaaaaaaal slow, this just happened recently, what can I do? It is doing weird things.

rplotner
rplotner 0 solutions 2 answers
Posted

When none of the suggested fixes worked for me, I did a system recovery to an earlier date when I know Firefox worked, and that did it for me - after the system recovery, Firefox automatically updated to version 13, and it's super fast now. Obviously, the slowdown was caused by Windows security updates...