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02-02-2013, 07:23 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 1999
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Is it Firefox, or my extensions?
The problem that I have is that Firefox just slows to an absolute crawl after 30-60 minutes of usage. The rest of the system is really speedy, so the problem is for sure limited to either Firefox or the add-ons.
I'm running the latest Firefox (18.0) on Windows 8. I'm running on a brand new clean install of Windows and Firefox at the moment, but I've had the had the same issue on Windows 7 and the last few versions of Firefox. I generally have 1-4 tabs open, and maybe up to 8 if I'm looking at a few things for school.
RAM usage (according to task manager) ranges from 250mb at launch to about 600 after an hour or two.
The extensions I use are:
AdBlock Plus
NoScript
Ghostery
BetterPrivacy
DownloadHelper
NewTabURL
UserAgentSwitcher
NoSquint
Is there a known issue with any of these add-ons, or is the issue Firefox itself? I've installed Chrome and though I'd prefer to stay with Firefox, the sluggishness is really starting to get to me.
I guess I'll just browse with add-ons turned off to check for myself. Just thought someone might have some first-hand experience with an add-on causing similar problems.
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Last edited by BigToque; 02-02-2013 at 07:29 PM.
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02-02-2013, 07:42 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
Posts: 31,971
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Try disabling Ghostery. I had minor slowdowns with it, but I've read of people having pretty bad performance.
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02-03-2013, 08:55 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Hostetter PA USA
Posts: 11,113
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigToque
The problem that I have is that Firefox just slows to an absolute crawl after 30-60 minutes of usage. The rest of the system is really speedy, so the problem is for sure limited to either Firefox or the add-ons.
I'm running the latest Firefox (18.0) on Windows 8. I'm running on a brand new clean install of Windows and Firefox at the moment, but I've had the had the same issue on Windows 7 and the last few versions of Firefox. I generally have 1-4 tabs open, and maybe up to 8 if I'm looking at a few things for school.
RAM usage (according to task manager) ranges from 250mb at launch to about 600 after an hour or two.
The extensions I use are:
AdBlock Plus
NoScript
Ghostery
BetterPrivacy
DownloadHelper
NewTabURL
UserAgentSwitcher
NoSquint
Is there a known issue with any of these add-ons, or is the issue Firefox itself? I've installed Chrome and though I'd prefer to stay with Firefox, the sluggishness is really starting to get to me.
I guess I'll just browse with add-ons turned off to check for myself. Just thought someone might have some first-hand experience with an add-on causing similar problems.
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18.0 is not the latest, 18.0.1 is http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2296544
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02-03-2013, 12:57 PM
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Platinum Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,966
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some of them I am not familiar with but try disabling one by one and see what happens.
I have noticed slowdowns when using ghostery myself.
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02-03-2013, 08:54 PM
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Platinum Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 2,088
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disable Ghostery
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02-03-2013, 10:14 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Loveland, CO
Posts: 466
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02-03-2013, 10:36 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
Posts: 31,971
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Quote:
Originally Posted by John Conner
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I use the Fanboy Ultimate list. I use Adblock+ anyway, so that makes it easy.
https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/filters.html
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