Firefox 3.6 is unbelievably slow

I find this thread becoming amusing because it is turning into a "He said, she said." Like the anti-virus threads.

This discussion will continue on ad infinitum, ad nauseum until the aliens finally decide to make CONTACT!

No, this thread is far better than those AV threads. I don't even respond to them anymore, if it is necessary to instruct someone to be sure to install an AV, I always say "install the AV of YOUR choice". I don't even bother giving recommendations anymore on that issue, and unless a member's system is infected and in need of help, I stay away from the subject altogether. It's like a revolving door.

Did you also consider that one of your anti spyware or anti-virus programs might be slowing it down. I've a this happen few times. I would update my anti-virus and then my web browsing would slow way down. Sometimes updates turns functions on in those applications that you turned off. Things like website checkers and so forth that actively scan sites you visit. Also andsome what didn't you like about FF. I have it installed on my old XP pro SP3 and my current win 7 pro 64bit with no issues. To me the problems with FF that people are having is their individual computer settings or configurations.

That is true, metalmania31. AV's, malware protectors, and even some Windows updates can cause problems. Along with security settings and browser add ons. I keep the add ons to a minimum, but do jack up my security a notch. On security and privacy, medium is a little low to my liking. I raised them to medium high. I also have layered AV protection, there may be a slight difference in speed, especially at the last 1% of a download, but I'm not on the forum complaining about anything being slow, due to my desire for heightened security. Security comes at a price, not only in cost (as in cash), but at a slight performance cost, too. Having plenty of RAM will help that a lot. FF is one of the fastest browsers on the market at this time, though it wasn't always that way. It was once a RAM hog, too. 3.5 started changing that for the better.

Open Firefox and type about:config.
Use the filter above to find network. http.pipelining and double click on it.
Create a new boolean value named network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and set to True.
Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, and change its value to 8.
Now look for network.http.proxy.pipelining and again set it to True.
Create two new integers named nglayout.initialpaint.delay and content.notify.interval, set them to 0.
Restart your browser and check a few heavy-loading websites to see if those changes worked or not.

I'm running FF 3.6.3 and finally turned off updates. I switched to Chrome for a couple of days and liked it because there are plenty of add ons now but I missed Firebug and the Chrome version just didn't make it for me. I do get crashes pretty often with FF. Once you get used to a particular browser it's difficult to switch.

roban, you're right. It's hard to switch browsers after using them for a while and liking the feel and all. Plus FF offers so many addons for most any need. But I don't have a problem with FF crashing. I just wonder what's making yours doing that way.

I figured it was some add on or other that was cause it catilley so I disabled them all, then started adding them back one by one, getting rid of the ones I don't use. So far I have had no crashes. I think it was the Java Console that is no longer supported.

I'm glad you mentioned the Java Console, I'll remove it from my laptop as soon as I close. I didn't realize it was unsupported anymore, it's still being offered for download.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...e/console.html

Some info here.