Comments on: Firefox keeps slowing down on Windows 11

By: glass

glass — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:29:00 +0000

In reply to DecentDiscourse. this!!!

By: glass

glass — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:28:00 +0000

Windows 7, FF36.0.4. Was cruising along fine then bam, I get the circular drain symbol and wait wait wait, especially if I have more than 1 tab open. My more than 1 I mean 2 to 3 at tops, not anything extreme. This is not the first time this has happened with FF and Windows 7 (on my 1 year old dell). But this flaw is getting old. NONE, and I vehemently repeat, NONE of the suggestions posted from Mozilla, or any other site, work on fixing the sluggish open two windows or open multiple tabs problem. I have done IT ALL. The only thing that works is FF with no add ons, if that’s the blasted case I might as well go back to IE. Seriously I have uninstalled and reinstalled, shut down add ons, reset flash, made sure everything is updated, added more per site memory for flash web sites, and on and on. Nothing fixes the sluggish use problem. Any new suggestions that ARE NOT already listed or obvious to a firefox user?

By: DecentDiscourse

DecentDiscourse — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:06:00 +0000

The problem with this “solution” is that it’s stabbing in the dark at a variety of hooded assailants. We don’t actually know what is wrong with Adobe Flash, even after all this time and all of these continual updates. Many many people have the same problem: Stream video in Firefox or Opera in Win7 64bit and your machine s-l-o-w-s to a crawl. All kinds of apps start spiking the processor, but as soon as you kill Adobe, things return to normal. It’s astounding to me that nobody can say EXACTLY what the mechanism is which causes this or that Adobe can’t/won’t fix it.

By: Subash Prabu

Subash Prabu — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:03:00 +0000

Backup your bookmarks and then create a new profile and import them.
Close Firefox, then in the Run box type the path of Firefox executable. Then type -p after the quotes then push OK.(eg: “C:Program Files (x86)Mozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe” -p) This will allow you to create a new profile in Firefox, could come in handy to avoid the hassle of re-installing,

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 01:16:00 +0000

The problem is that Firefox is a native 32 bit browser which runs fine on 32 bit systems, the problems you describe, some of which I experience on my 64 bit system.

The good folks at Firefox would like to tell you that their 32 bit browser works fine on both 32 and 64 bit systems but they are wrong, it doesn’t work fine on 64 bit systems, I constantly experience slowdowns and freezes, even without addons.
This is why I uninstalled it and switched to Pale Moon they make a native 64 bit browser made for 64 bit systems built on the Mozilla code and runs faster than Firefox ever did.

The good folks at Firefox snub their noses at 64 bit systems and say they have no intention on building a 64 bit Firefox, I cannot see why as everything is going in a 64 bit direction, then eventually 128 bit after that. Not building a 64 bit browser will be Firefox’s downfall, I guess they will build a 64 bit browser when we are all leaning towards 128 bit.