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Firefox - Win 7 SLOW as molasses

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BentherB4
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I am typing this on my Win XP, very little RAM laptop connected to my home DSL. At first I thought it was the crap DSL service I have but now I realize it is...Firefox and WIN7- 64bit. (AMD Phenom Quad - 1T-HDD- 8 gig RAM) I have always done all upgrades to FF and WIN and I have to say I have tried all applicable "fixes" in the troubleshooting area. It starts slow - shows long periods of HDD activity at startup and will freeze my PC whenever I try anything - from closing it to choosing another tab. Reading the posted problems...might there be an issue with WIN7 64-bit compatibility going on here?? Seems like it....

Don't make me go to another browser... I WANT to use FF but it is horrific as it is now, on my much faster computer. It is faster here on my WinXPPro-2.8ghz Core 2 DUo-150G-HDD-3 Gig RAM laptop. Something is wrong...

I am typing this on my Win XP, very little RAM laptop connected to my home DSL. At first I thought it was the crap DSL service I have but now I realize it is...Firefox and WIN7- 64bit. (AMD Phenom Quad - 1T-HDD- 8 gig RAM) I have always done all upgrades to FF and WIN and I have to say I have tried all applicable "fixes" in the troubleshooting area. It starts slow - shows long periods of HDD activity at startup and will freeze my PC whenever I try anything - from closing it to choosing another tab. Reading the posted problems...might there be an issue with WIN7 64-bit compatibility going on here?? Seems like it.... Don't make me go to another browser... I WANT to use FF but it is horrific as it is now, on my much faster computer. It is faster here on my WinXPPro-2.8ghz Core 2 DUo-150G-HDD-3 Gig RAM laptop. Something is wrong...

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ralphbusdriver
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Deleted.

Modified by ralphbusdriver

thefishfryer
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I found this answer to slow loading of web pages in FF7 on a forum somewhere. If you have Speedbit Video Accelerator on your system it seems to be messing with the new version of Firefox. I deleted it from my system and voila! almost instant loading of pages again. Hope this works for others out there.

stew39
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Thanks for the tip Fishfryer. FF7 was really slow loading web pages for me too and I had Speedbit Video Accelerator installed. I uninstalled it and now FF7 is running smooth again. SVA worked great on previous versions of FF but it almost halted FF7 at times.