Firefox Related Issue

Twist86

Twist86

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So I ran into a strange issue this morning I left my PC on over night and I wake up...I rebooted as what I was doing was over (virus scans etc) and now my firefox is utterly slow.

The browser itself is fast...but the time it takes to load is 40-60 seconds vs 1-2 seconds prior.

I reinstalled 3.5.6 then tried 3.5.5 as it worked before and both take forever to load. Deleted all files etc and its still slow. I also deleted the Roam file with profiles etc in it.

I fully removed Firefox including all profiles etc and it still loads slow so what could be the issue here?
 
I experienced probably the same problem - firefox was slow and i restored my pc to 2-3 days earlier and it seemed to have fixed the issue. I didnt uninstall the program though. At least it worked for me i hope it works for you too. I had no idea what caused it to run slow but it worked fine after i restored my pc.
 
he might be right. one option and dont want to change nothing. after uninstalling make sure you delete the directory in windows program files. goto start run type %appdata% and delete all occurrences of the program. i would reboot. If not then his option might be correct. I never had a problem taking it back to earlier date. guess depends on how ya want to do it.
starting to sound like you have more than one problem though.
 
tlarkin said:
Other browsers work faster (Opera, IE, Safari, etc)?
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Yep boots up as fast as Firefox did and once FF is booted up each new window (aka clicking Firefox.exe again) will boot up immediately.Its the first boot that is long...if I close all FF windows it will be slow again.
I then checked my hardware and overclock etc and everything passes. System is fast and responsive with no virus/malware/trojans.

Really a odd one....I keep getting copy/paste replies from the mod of FF so that is providing to be useless. The only thing that was off was my overclock was @ 2.1ghz vs 3.2ghz (which is stock speed but x8 multi vs x9) but no change after fixing it...not sure why it reset either.

So far earlier today I tried all this.
Reinstall Firefox - My Profile
Uninstalled Firefox - Default Profile
100% deletion of Firefox - same issue
3.5.5 clean install = same
3.4.3 clean install = same

So I went to hardware

Disk Defrag
Registry Defrag
AVG - Scan - Nothing
Maleware Bytes - Nothing (safe mode same result)
Spybot - Nothing
HDD check 2 hour scan - nothing

Everything clean bill of health. Did a 2 hour Prime after finding a error with my clock (didn't lose power or anything and I changed the BIOS battery to be safe)


So then I uninstalled AVG and Comodo Firewall and Peerblock and same result with FF so that is not the issue.
Windows Firewall / Defender - Disabled and Deleted/Removed since day 1.

Reinstalled AVG/Comodo/Peerblock/updates same result.
It seems like firefox isn't the issue but my system is not at fault so dunno what is wrong.
Also I never do restore points as they are pretty useless and hardly ever fix the solution. Its why I do formats it solves all issues :P


The system is booting up just as fast as normal and IE 1-2 second boot up...internet is 90% power (normal) so nothing seems wrong with FF or my system so what the hell could it be?

I am curious what services does FF rely on? What could possibly slow the boot up of the program but not hinder the speeds of loading pages/tabs/pages. I can open up 40 tabs and have no issues but it takes a minute to start?
 
Maybe that is the problem. Firefox doesn't rely on any services, it is completely self contained. You may google configuring the about:config settings in firefox to hack it up a bit.
 
Then how do you think it worked so perfectly before today then? I didn't edit anything in the config other then disable the AV scan by Firefox.

So the same configuration with different results? Something had to have changed.
 
Twist86 said:
Then how do you think it worked so perfectly before today then? I didn't edit anything in the config other then disable the AV scan by Firefox.

So the same configuration with different results? Something had to have changed.
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Perhaps the developers of FF did something that is screwy with your configuration? I don't know, FF works OK for me but I will admit it has declined in performance over the last year.
 
Well you see that is the snag then....I tried 3.5.5 which did work fast and proper and it has the same issues now.

But nothing else has issues like this so it has to be something Firefox scans/relies on when it boots up right?
Any folders Firefox accesses before it loads up?
 
Firefox to my knowledge is a 100% self contained application. The only files/folders it would access outside itself would be user level stuff like book marks, profile, and user settings.
 
Try a system restore first, and go back to when it was working. Maybe a Windows update caused it? Driver update? The problem with Windows and custom built PCs is that the configurations are so broad it basically puts the issue you are troubleshooting in a very broad range of possibilities. So it leaves you with process of elimination for troubleshooting a lot of times.

I would also create a brand new user account and try it, since that will give you a complete fresh profile of your Firefox settings. Then at least if the problem does not reproduce in a new user account we can more safely assume it is a user level preference causing this.

I would also look at your add ons, I bet certain add ons do add to the actual loading time of Firefox itself since it has to render any extra tools and search bars when it is launched.

Other than that, I am kind of out of ideas.
 
I don't do restores...waste of HDD space and never fix the problem in most cases for me so why waste the time :P.

Also 100% clean install = everything you suggested in your last post :)
Nothing changed in my system to cause the issue.....format fixed it though so its all good.


Thanks for the help. Not worth the hassle when a 1 hour solution solved it ^-^
 
Well maybe you should make an image of your computer then, since you could reimage it in a manner of minutes. I can image a laptop here at work (about 14gigs in size with OS + apps) in about 15 minutes. That way you wouldn't have to ever wait that full hour of wiping and reloading.

While I agree with your logic that a wipe and reload is more efficient, but it doesn't tell us the cause of the problem. Hopefully it doesn't come back again.
 
It is a solid idea but what would you store that on? Multiple disks or does it super compress it?

I wouldn't mind doing that after I got done tweaking my OS so long as I can format THEN put it on.
 
Twist86 said:
It is a solid idea but what would you store that on? Multiple disks or does it super compress it?

I wouldn't mind doing that after I got done tweaking my OS so long as I can format THEN put it on.
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I think my 28 gig image (OS + all of the apps) was around 12gigs Compressed. So you can compress it generally about 50% maybe even lower. You can span it over DVD or do HD to HD cloning with images.
 
I see well will give that a look. Other then Windows updates id leave all defaults with services etc disabled the way I like it.
Would save me quite a bit of time not having to disable all the crap on Vista/7 that I don't like before I add all my programs etc.

I am curious happen to have a good guide for "gutting" windows 7? Aka deleting all the language/drivers that you never use?
 
Yeah you can cut all that stuff out. All my work images are for Macs but I cut out extra third party drivers, and extra language support and it shaves about 4gigs of stuff off the image I would never use. Though I keep the language packs as a separate install for all of the ESL students that may need multi-lingual support.
 
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