Firefox on my Mac has been so slow the past few days, what's going on?
The past week, every time I click on anything - an e-mail in gmail, something on a website I want to go to, the arrow to scroll on a page, the Mac colorwheel comes on and it takes forever. I finally got so frustrated I switched back to my old Safari. But this is a new problem, and I didn't do anything to the computer to cause it. My internet connection is fine (cable) as Safari works great. So what's going on? (I have version 3.5.9)
Chosen solution
by alex_mayorgaMy first suggestion would be Update Firefox to the latest version as the version you have seems a bit dated.
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This happened
Every time Firefox opened
This started when...
for no reason I can tell about five days ago.
Installed Plug-ins
- Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
- Gecko default plugin
- http://www.facebook.com/fbplugin/
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
- Coupons Inc. Plugin
- Macromedia Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 10.1.1
- Java 1.3.1 Plug-in
- Java 1.3.1 Plug-in (CFM)
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9
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Chosen Solution
My first suggestion would be Update Firefox to the latest version as the version you have seems a bit dated.
You should also update Flash.
See http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/
Start Firefox in Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
- Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
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