All Firefox builds/versions have slowed down considerably

Question

Recently, Firefox slowed down to a crawl while doing pretty much anything - loading pages, watching videos, loading images. Firefox isn't crashing or going gray, it's just running at a snail's pace. However, the connection speed of the internet at home isn't the issue, as my parents still can get on the Internet just fine, and using Firefox, too. I thought it was a problem with the F4 beta, so I downgraded to 3.6, but with no result. I've had to lifeboat out to Chrome - it still works fine, no slowdowns, and neither does IE. Downloads still seem to go at a respectable pace, so I'm just confused as to what the problem is. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Is it your computer or your Internet connection? Even if your connection is fast the speed of the Internet also depends upon every server computer between you and your web sites. Are you on an unsecured wireless connection and somebody else is using it? What about general things you do on your computer. Do you have any processor intensive activities you can use for comparison test purposes? This can go all kinds of directions so we need to try to narrow it down to your computer or your connection.