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Regarding https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/985530

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Jimall
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Will Firefox ever become a trim resource-light application again? I had the same problem as 985530, having loved Firefox in the past on my favorite old laptop (pentium m, 2 GB) but hating it recently as it became slower and slower. On a fresh XP install and update, with latest Firefox and no addons except the latest flash plugin, content-heavy websites took several minutes to come up. Facebook was the worst. I tried turning off Firefox telemetry and prefetch, which helped a little. Finally got satisfactory performance by installing addblock-plus as recommended by Gary and Andrew at https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=564607316896327. Now this performs as well as my 3-year-old 4-core.

And by the way I'm making this reply as a new question only because it seems the only way to register short of joining your "get-involved" which is too much of a commitment. This is the first time in 10 years that I wanted to reply to an existing question and I will be dead before I do it again.

Will Firefox ever become a trim resource-light application again? I had the same problem as 985530, having loved Firefox in the past on my favorite old laptop (pentium m, 2 GB) but hating it recently as it became slower and slower. On a fresh XP install and update, with latest Firefox and no addons except the latest flash plugin, content-heavy websites took several minutes to come up. Facebook was the worst. I tried turning off Firefox telemetry and prefetch, which helped a little. Finally got satisfactory performance by installing addblock-plus as recommended by Gary and Andrew at https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=564607316896327. Now this performs as well as my 3-year-old 4-core. And by the way I'm making this reply as a new question only because it seems the only way to register short of joining your "get-involved" which is too much of a commitment. This is the first time in 10 years that I wanted to reply to an existing question and I will be dead before I do it again.

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John99
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I cross linked your post to /questions/985530#answer-545796

You may want to leave the Firefox telemetry enabled at least some of the time. One of the purposes of the Telemetry feature is to collect data to highlight problems such as high memory usage and slowness in startup.

If you wish to register dissatisfaction use the input option from an up to date Firefox