Comments on: Is Firefox slow for you? Here’s some tips to try which might speed it up

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:06:31 +0000

My Firefox was taking several minutes to start up and I couldn’t fix it no matter what. I followed your recommendation to try SpeedyFox: now it takes less than five seconds.

So, thanks for the steer to SpeedyFox (and thanks for SpeedyFox itself). I’m well impressed.
It worked!

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:29:38 +0000

Worked great. Thanks for your advice

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:15:48 +0000

Thanks for tips. I was always a fan of Firefox but recently it makes me think I still have dial-up.
This webpage displays Ok in IE, but RH columns sits over LH in Firefox. I keep finding this problem more and more. Couldn’t see account data in Paypal the other day, because another box was over the top. Chrome has compatability issues as well, as I can see from my own website where the header menu in Chrome is twice the width it is in IE and Firefox. For speed try Opera!

By: Ilyakori

Ilyakori — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:54:55 +0000

Excellent post! I was ready to ditch Firefox as well, but after disabling AVG browser plugins and installing Speedy Fox and Memory Fox, my physical memory usage was cut by 20%…and the Firefox memory usage, with 6 tabs open, including my Gmail and the front page of Huffington Post, dropped from 335mb to between 54 and 72mb! Fantastic!

By: Kingerz

Kingerz — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:57:49 +0000

None of these obscure steps should be needed. There is clearly a deeper problem with Firefox at the moment as it is taking ages to connect, in fact often stalling totally with Firefox tabs stuck on connecting. It also is having other problems lately like tbeing very slow to start, not starting at all unless you ctrl+alt+del to close ‘ghost’ versions of it from some weird issue it has not closing down.

I have the same symptoms on two different Windows 7 PCs.

Ready to leave it for another browser.

By: Kings

Kings — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:43:58 +0000

I gave up… It’s so hard to fix this Firefox… I am now using Chrome and it’s fast again… Earlier it was so slow when i type.

By: camille

camille — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:53:54 +0000

Also: I tried Chrome a while ago and it is fast. However, once installed, it takes up MUCH more space on your computer, so if you are running out of space on your C drive, I’d skip it.

*You may want to check the current sizes of both Chrome and Firefox, though, because this was about a year ago and the size issue may have changed.

By: camille

camille — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:45:10 +0000

Thanks for the info!

Unrelated, but, you might want to reduce the width of the comments table. A lot of the upper comments (#2-20)are cut off by the righthand menu…

By: john

john — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:02:25 +0000

That is just poor programming when you have to go through extensive steps to fix it. Firefox should work at least as well as IE, Opera and Chrome.
I am running firefox 4.0 and it just suddenly became slow. It’s not my computer/internet connection because IE and Opera work fine.
So I guess firefox has just lost another user. I am sure after searching the internet for “guides how to speed up your crappy firefox browser” I’ll find the solution but it’s not worth it. gooodbbbbbyee firefox!

By: techandlife

techandlife — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:54:18 +0000

I’ve been on Chrome for a while now. Overall it is faster than Firefox so give it a try.