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Firefox very slow on one of my Windows XP computers. Refreshing did not fix. Refresh did not correctly complete.

gmendenh
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Firefox health check reveals startup time often greater than two minutes. Firefox hangs and announces not responsive during normal browsing. If I wait long enough, up to 5 minutes, Firefox will become responsive again. System is Windows XP. AMD processor @ 3GHZ and 2GB RAM Thanks for your help and suggestions. Geoff

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Firefox health check reveals startup time often greater than two minutes. Firefox hangs and announces not responsive during normal browsing. If I wait long enough, up to 5 minutes, Firefox will become responsive again. System is Windows XP. AMD processor @ 3GHZ and 2GB RAM Thanks for your help and suggestions. Geoff <sub>edit: removed your mail address from public display, since the only thing it will attract are spam bots. you will be notified per mail once somebody replies to the thread. (philipp)</sub>

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Stephen Fox
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It sounds like you need to restore your operating system to factory settings. With a 3.0GHz processor, Firefox should launch within 5 seconds. You have an operating system problem, not a Firefox problem.

gmendenh
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Stephen, Thanks for your response and suggestions. I am not having any speed problems with any other application except Firefox, so I don't think I want to take the chance/risk of a complete restore of my Windows XP system just for a problem with Firefox. Perhaps I need to to another refresh of Firefox and then run a registry cleaner to see if that helps. Regards, Geoff

Stephen Fox
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Does your processor support SSE2? Pentium 4 has had those instructions since 2001 but AMD was a little late to the game.

Recommended configuration for Firefox is a processor that supports SSE2.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/45.0/system-requirements/

You can always use the Extended Support Release (ESR), which is the version I prefer. The ESR only includes essential security updates and runs a bit better on old hardware. The current version is 38.7.1