Firefox

aardvaak

It takes ages to load first time (but always has)

It makes my computer crash when in the middle of work (many times a day) then reboots and to add insult says :-

"Well this is Embarrassing".

It is just a total pain in the ar*e

Why can't they get this software right.

m5rcc

Ive noticed that FF has worsened and these new versions have slowed down. I've moved indefinitely onto Chrome.

santer_2

You could try Palemoon as it will run most Firefox add ons, so you install add ons one at a time to see if any of those are helping to slow it down

http://www.palemoon.org/

clangnuts

Recently had some issues with Firefox. I disabled ALL of the add ons, and it works just fine again. Have reactivated 2 of the add ons that I actually use, and it's still working good.

I think it's often problems with third party add ons that causes problems with Firefox, particularly when it's just updated to a new version.

JasX

I've also noticed Firefox siezing and misbehaving recently...... might switch to Opera soon

waddler_8

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_(Firefox)#Standard_diagnostic_steps

UncleZen

For me FF6+ loads much faster that the previous version.
I know have FF7 and there are a few compatibility issues with addons that will catch up in due course.

Ivalore

aardvaak wrote: »

It takes ages to load first time (but always has)

It makes my computer crash when in the middle of work (many times a day) then reboots and to add insult says :-

"Well this is Embarrassing".

It is just a total pain in the ar*e

Why can't they get this software right.

Are you using McAfee A/V...?

There has been problems when the McAfee ScriptScan if enabled which causes endless crashes.
You need to go to the firebox extensions list and disable it.

debitcardmayhem

Also don't allow FF to automatically check for updates, that always slows down start up of FF

aardvaak

Ivalore wrote: »

Are you using McAfee A/V...?

There has been problems when the McAfee ScriptScan if enabled which causes endless crashes.
You need to go to the firebox extensions list and disable it.

No Kaspersky

Ivalore

aardvaak wrote: »

No Kaspersky

I believe it's a A/V/firewall issue.

Try Googling 'Configuring Kaspersky Internet security for firefox'