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After formatting and reinstalling the firefox exception lists are already populated.

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Pasanius
Pasanius

I just formatted my laptop and reinstalled windows and Firefox. After importing my old bookmarks I installed Adblock Plus and pulled up my old block list. Then I updated Windows and went on to install the little stuff like 7zip, Symantec, ... and the next thing I know is that Firefox was slowing down and when I checked, the exception lists for pop-ups, image loading and add-ons were completely full - and I didn't know any of the first hundred of sites listed. How can this be? I only went to pages like youtube, yahoo and google and only after installing symantec... Help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Pasanius

I just formatted my laptop and reinstalled windows and Firefox. After importing my old bookmarks I installed Adblock Plus and pulled up my old block list. Then I updated Windows and went on to install the little stuff like 7zip, Symantec, ... and the next thing I know is that Firefox was slowing down and when I checked, the exception lists for pop-ups, image loading and add-ons were completely full - and I didn't know any of the first hundred of sites listed. How can this be? I only went to pages like youtube, yahoo and google and only after installing symantec... Help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Pasanius

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cor-el
cor-el
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Some security software may have added that list Spybot S&D is known to add such an immunization list, but other security software can do that as well.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs#Internet_security_software

Pasanius
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Thanks man, I didn't think about that! I wasn't sure if I had installed Spybot before or after but I had definitely run the immunization right after installing. Thanks a lot!

cor-el
cor-el
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You're welcome