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All downloads through Firefox are going incredibly slow. How do I fix this?

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TheWiredWorld replied 11 years ago
TheWiredWorld
TheWiredWorld

I was just trying to download a simple installer file for U-Play and it was taking longer than an hour. I opened up Chrome and it took 20 seconds.

Does this have anything to do with the fact that I have Firefox on one Drive, and where it's downloading to is on another Drive? That shouldn't make a difference, no?

I was just trying to download a simple installer file for U-Play and it was taking longer than an hour. I opened up Chrome and it took 20 seconds. Does this have anything to do with the fact that I have Firefox on one Drive, and where it's downloading to is on another Drive? That shouldn't make a difference, no?

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cor-el
cor-el
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It is possible that anti-virus software is corrupting downloaded files or is interfering otherwise.

Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.

See:

TheWiredWorld
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cor-el said

It is possible that anti-virus software is corrupting downloaded files or is interfering otherwise. Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work. See:

I don't have any anti virus software - other than NoScript - which isn't billed as such.