Firefox menus (right click, bookmark, etc) load REALLY slow
System Info: Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit. Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.53 GHZ 6 gig memory Intel SSD 320 series
Progressively for the past few years, FireFox has gotten slower and slower for me. Not actually the browsing, but the menus. It now takes ~3 seconds to load up the right click menu, or the "FireFox" menu at the top left, or book marks.
History, Cache, Cookies have all been deleted. All extensions and plugins disabled. If I disable all start up home pages. It still does responds the same
When I reinstalled Windows ~2 months ago when I got the SSD drive (it was a clean install) the behavior is there immediately upon installing.
This is driving me more and more crazy and I am about ready to give up on FireFox!
Anybody know what is going on and how to fix it?
Chosen solution
Try to disable hardware acceleration.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
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Chosen Solution
Try to disable hardware acceleration.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":
There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.
If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
See:
Hi,
So disabling hardware acceleration did indeed fix it. I believe this needs to be reported to the developers, because I do have the latest Nvidia drivers, and this problem has existed for MANY concurrent driver versions.
Despite the name 260M, it is actually a rather powerful GPU for its age. It has 1gig dedicated memory (i.e., not actually using system memory). And preforms about 50% faster on average then a Nvidia 9800GTX.
Jumping in the conversation to make an update on the situation. I just got this problem too, but it was after I updated my monitor driver! Disabling HW accelaration did fix it, but using latest monitor driver for my viewsonic (from windows update, win7 x64) started this problem. Only other 2 updates that was installed are .net 3.5 and 4.0 updates (and I doubt this product is using these).
So it might not be video card related, since mine wasn't updated and I haven't the issue before updating monitor driver.