Quickest & safest fix for FF slowness - yet still leave Favicons, bookmarks & history arranged AS IS?

Since FF has been having trouble retrieving my windows & tabs, slowing me, I tried finding the solution, so I browsed FF Help, and read about RESET.
The Mozilla Reset-Firefox article stated:
"when [reset] is done, a window will list the info that was imported. Click Finish and FF will open. That's it, you're done!"
But this fails to inform me whether RESET leaves Favicons etc. etc. arranged AS IS without fooling around with their order.
So is my best bet to:
(1) Reset?
(2) Disable extensions/themes?
(3) Update to latest version (why? i'm happy with this version, if not for becoming slow)
(4) I only seem to have a coupon printer plugin. Does that hog memory?
Thanks!
P.S. My system info, is:
Thinkpad Pentium M, 1gb RAM. 1.73ghz

Update:
OK, today I ran MSE, as well as CHKDSK.
MSE diagnosis:<br />
Scan completed on 238096 items<br />
no threats detected on your PC during this scan<br />
blah blah
<pre><nowiki>IN EVENT VIEWER:
SYSTEM FILE LISTED:
.......many Yellow Warnings RE:
Dhcp, Tcpip, Win32k, Print, b57w2k, and W32Time
.......many Red Errors RE:
MS anti-malware, Print, W32Time, WinUpdateAgent
MY MOST RECENT EVEN-VIEWER LOG ON RECORD:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 1/7/2013
Time: 12:19:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer: USER-C4CCFDE742
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 78 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 78 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 78 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
58605088 KB total disk space.
12748568 KB in 47120 files.
15868 KB in 10071 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
196244 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
45644408 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
14651272 total allocation units on disk.
11411102 allocation units available on disk.
Internal Info:
f0 71 01 00 73 df 00 00 de 35 01 00 00 00 00 00 .q..s....5......
de 0c 00 00 03 00 00 00 5a 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........Z.......
20 16 21 03 00 00 00 00 8c 07 63 2c 00 00 00 00 .!.......c,....
6c ab 7e 05 00 00 00 00 42 09 92 66 02 00 00 00 l.~.....B..f....
02 6e f6 1c 04 00 00 00 cc 0d 7f c3 06 00 00 00 .n..............
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 a0 38 07 00 10 b8 00 00 ..6......8......
00 00 00 00 00 60 1c 0a 03 00 00 00 57 27 00 00 .....`......W'..
Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
===================================================
MY OLDEST EVENT-VIEWER LOG ON RECORD:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: Winlogon
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 2/5/2012
Time: 3:40:09 AM
User: N/A
Computer: USER-C4CCFDE742
Description:
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 583 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 583 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 583 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
58605088 KB total disk space.
12525548 KB in 40670 files.
31624 KB in 10226 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
198472 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
45849444 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
14651272 total allocation units on disk.
11462361 allocation units available on disk.
Internal Info:
f0 71 01 00 dc c6 00 00 dc 1a 01 00 00 00 00 00 .q..............
28 0d 00 00 03 00 00 00 8c 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 (...............
3a 2d d7 02 00 00 00 00 f2 9c 1b 64 00 00 00 00 :-.........d....
a0 33 4d 07 00 00 00 00 7e b8 77 d1 02 00 00 00 .3M.....~.w.....
9c 29 6c 24 04 00 00 00 9c 70 3b 6f 07 00 00 00 .)l$.....p;o....
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 a0 38 07 00 de 9e 00 00 ..6......8......
00 00 00 00 00 b0 7f fc 02 00 00 00 f2 27 00 00 .............'..
Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.</nowiki></pre>

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