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So far Firefox has taken over 16 minutes and still has not opened a commonly used site. It has become progressively slower. So much so that I now have to use

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merrijigster
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While I was writing the above message the site finally loaded, after 18 minutes. I have checked against Chrome and find that Chrome loads quickly while Firefox is just getting slower to load any site. I can't even get straight through to Mozilla itself on Firefox. On my phone my Firefox for Android works fine, no delay there.

While I was writing the above message the site finally loaded, after 18 minutes. I have checked against Chrome and find that Chrome loads quickly while Firefox is just getting slower to load any site. I can't even get straight through to Mozilla itself on Firefox. On my phone my Firefox for Android works fine, no delay there.

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Shadow110
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Hi, no information came regarding your version your running nor of any Extensions.

Please try ; Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Firefox Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode that temporarily turns off hardware acceleration, resets some settings, and disables add-ons (extensions and themes).

If Firefox is open, you can restart in Firefox Safe Mode from the Help menu:

  • Click the menu button New Fx Menu, click Help Help-29 and select Restart with Add-ons Disabled.

If Firefox is not running, you can start Firefox in Safe Mode as follows:

  • On Windows: Hold the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
  • On Mac: Hold the option key while starting Firefox.
  • On Linux: Quit Firefox, go to your Terminal and run firefox -safe-mode
    (you may need to specify the Firefox installation path e.g. /usr/lib/firefox)

When the Firefox Safe Mode window appears, select "Start in Safe Mode".

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If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, theme, or hardware acceleration. Please follow the steps in the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article to find the cause.

To exit Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.

When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help others with the same problem.

cor-el
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Boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support to see if that has effect in case security software is causing problems.

It is possible that your firewall or other security software blocks or restricts Firefox without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox application. Remove all rules for Firefox from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full, unrestricted, access for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process. See: