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Suspicious bar at screen bottom

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divinyl
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A grey bar at the bottom of the screen, above the task bar, says Firefox seems slow and has a link to "learn how to speed it up." Is this a scam or legit?

A grey bar at the bottom of the screen, above the task bar, says Firefox seems slow and has a link to "learn how to speed it up." Is this a scam or legit?

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Monster
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This is a virus, not part of mozilla then do a virus scan and if it does not work reinstall firefox

FredMcD
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It could be a message from the browser. Does your browser seem slow?

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?

cor-el
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divinyl
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Thank you all for the replies.

I've run a virus scan, and various malware scans (all of which I do regularly); no virus was found, and the suspicious bar has not reappeared so far (so I can't take a screenshot of it).

So, the suspicious bar issue may or may not be resolved; time will tell.

However, Firefox was extremely slow to load this morning; I'll keep an eye on it and try the other suggestions if the slowness continues.