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Firefox 4 slow loading Cityville in Facebook - how to speed up?

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paulretterath
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Running Windows 7 and Avast Free V6. With Firefox 3, my wife was able to load up the Cityville game in Facebook very quickly. When we upgraded to Firefox 4 it takes ages to load the game. I have reverted to Firefox 3 until we can resolve the problem.

There are lots of mentions of being able to customise the security settings for web sites but I can not see anything that would see to help in this situation.

Running Windows 7 and Avast Free V6. With Firefox 3, my wife was able to load up the Cityville game in Facebook very quickly. When we upgraded to Firefox 4 it takes ages to load the game. I have reverted to Firefox 3 until we can resolve the problem. There are lots of mentions of being able to customise the security settings for web sites but I can not see anything that would see to help in this situation.

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chup2
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Hello will someone ever reply to this problem? I'm having the same problem and it starts to pi** me off, need to downgrade to Firefox 3 until this thing is solved..

bryanmm29
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i'd say its facebook or try updating ur flash players etc..clean cookies,cache,all the usual,and try again?i have windows 7 and my ff4 is great most times but on facebook games which i play almost all zynga games and a few others ,i do have issues sometimes worse than others i just think facebook cant handle how many are on but i'm no expert..hope it helps but i'm kinda in same boat chrome crashes during every facebook game nonstop and safari is about the same as ff sometimes slightly better or worse..not sure what to do..

Xircal
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Please perform the standard diagnostic in the first instance. See: Troubleshoot and diagnose Firefox problems

Also, outdated plugins can contribute to this kind of problem. A visit to the Plugins Check page is well worthwhile, particularly since old plugins can expose your system to attacks. For example, see these advisories which relate to Adobe apps.

Similarly, you may have extensions installed which cause slowdowns. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/

Then there are the junk apps that come bundled with 'free' software. Take a look at this article if you have a chat client called Digsby installed then it's using your system resources for its own purposes: Digsby Uses Your PC to Make Money

Here's a list of junk software which gets installed if you don't opt out before clicking "Next" to run the installation: Junk software

Do you have the Ask Toolbar installed? Check in Add-ons | Extensions. How did you get that you ask? It's easy, you were too intent on clicking "Next" and didn't notice the opt out provision. See screenshot.

All this junk slows Firefox down, but because it's open source and accepts so many extensions, it's vulnerable to this kind kind of exploitation.

nyjunny
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it just gets worse i downloaded firefox 4 5 and 6 and they still do the same i checked and noticed that new versions of firefox do not support most addons and plug ins which run most of these pages including java im still looking for ways to fix these problem and havent found anything yet if you have better luck please post thanks and good luck