Everytime I get on the internet it takes 5mins or more, and when it finally loads the thanks for installing firefox and thanks for installing personas pages are up even though I've already installed and used both.

This started about two weeks ago. I had been using personas and firefox without any trouble, but now it takes 5x's as long to load if not longer and the persona I've chosen from my previous web visit is not up, but rather a default persona is.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened

Your settings are not saved. try with new profile.
Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems. <br>
See '''Creating a profile''':
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues
If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a previously used profile to the new profile, but be cautious not to copy corrupted files to avoid carrying over the problem <br>
'''Profile Backup and Restore'''
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

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