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Internet Explorer opens almost instantly, Firefox takes 5 seconds or more to open. Why?

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Greyfox35
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I have exhausted all solutions suggested. I only have two plug-ins, both are "ask to activate", and I have two extensions, both are disabled. I can only conclude that Firefox is naturally 5 times slower than IE and that there is no way to change it. Or... is there? I can find NO solution on the net that solves this problem. Does anyone else have this experience. Why can't Firefox be as fast as Internet Explorer?

I have exhausted all solutions suggested. I only have two plug-ins, both are "ask to activate", and I have two extensions, both are disabled. I can only conclude that Firefox is naturally 5 times slower than IE and that there is no way to change it. Or... is there? I can find NO solution on the net that solves this problem. Does anyone else have this experience. Why can't Firefox be as fast as Internet Explorer?

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FredMcD
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Firefox is slow - How to make it faster The article covers the steps you can take to make Firefox run faster.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-slow-how-make-it-faster?esab=a&s=firefox+slow&r=1&as=s


Firefox takes a long time to start up This article describes some causes of a long start up time and steps you can take to improve it.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-takes-long-time-start-up?esab=a&s=firefox+slow&r=3&as=s