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Downloaded new version of Firefox for windows (31.0), web browsing has slowed to a crawl. Any suggestions? Did not make any changes to settings from 30.0.

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Downloaded new version of Firefox for windows (31.0) Web browsing has slowed to a crawl. It is painful, un-usable. Made no changes to settings, add-ons which ran on 30.0. Speed used be very good. Speed of browsing on Chrome still good and unchanged. Any suggestions?

Downloaded new version of Firefox for windows (31.0) Web browsing has slowed to a crawl. It is painful, un-usable. Made no changes to settings, add-ons which ran on 30.0. Speed used be very good. Speed of browsing on Chrome still good and unchanged. Any suggestions?

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode; Press the Alt or F10 key to bring up the tool bar. Followed by;

Windows; Tools > Options Linux; Edit > Preferences Mac; application name > Preferences

Then Advanced > General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?

Then restart.

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I think that McAfee Site Advisor is causing this problem. When I disable it, Firefox (31) works at its old fast speed.

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Test it for a while. Then decide what to do.

I found an add-on that looks to increase the speed of my Firefox. Still testing, but looks good.

Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page {web link} (There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for what you want.

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If you decide McAfee is the problem, mark your last post as Solved Problem.