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Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns?

From Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns?
Date 2016-12-10 21:14 +0000
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In article <do_ray_me-62ABEF.07382911122016@46.sub-75-242-165.myvzw.com>,
dorayme  <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>It could be the latest one(s) you opened (trouble can strike in 
>various ways with websites loading) or it could be some sort of memory 
>problem to hold all the tabs and previews. 

I don't think anything I opened recently was a data-intensive page.


>You restarted the Mac 
>itself? You got good RAM? Your disk not too full? 

RAM and storage are fine. Haven't restarted the Mac recently but
have sometimes had this problem even after a restart. And other
apps haven't been slowing down, just FF.

>When you quit and relaunched, did you then open all previous tabs? If 
>not, I know it sounds a bit obvious, open one tab and note the 
>behaviour. Then open another site in another tab. When you strike 
>trouble, it *may* then be the latest. 

I thought of that, but what if the problem doesn't manifest right
away? 


>Or it could be other things.
>
>Try clearing the cache. 

Won't that wipe out all my history? I like FF auto-filling pages
I've visited previously.


>And also try running without add-ons. In Safe 
>Mode. To see if any add-ons are involved.

The only add-on I use is Adblock Plus.


>Any similar trouble with other browsers?

I don't think so, but I rarely use any others.


Patty

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How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-10 19:48 +0000
  Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-12-11 07:38 +1100
    Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-10 21:14 +0000
      Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-12-11 10:03 +1100
        Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-11 23:47 +0000
  Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2016-12-11 08:54 -0500
    Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-11 23:52 +0000
      Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2016-12-11 19:56 -0500
      Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? "Ed H." <phoney@bogus.com> - 2016-12-13 22:57 -0600
        Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-12-14 05:55 +0000
        Re: How to troubleshoot Firefox slowdowns? Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2016-12-15 05:05 -0500

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