Why do firefox pages load faster if I switch to different application on the taskbar?

Using XP sp3, Firefox 27.0.1. Firefox spikes resources usage. I've tried resetting firefox. Granted, my pc is older, and only has 2.25 gig of ram, but until recently the loading time was acceptable. Now it's not. This seems to happen occasionally after firefox is updated.
Pages are loading much more slowly recently, maybe since security update on 2/14? The odd thing is, if, while the page is loading, I click on another non-firefox application, like the task manager, in the taskbar, the firefox page seems to load faster. Is this possible? The delay seems to be when the spinning circle (I don't know what it's called - favicon?) with the ball has turned green and is rotating to the right. I'm not talking just a few seconds of difference. It could be a minute's difference.
Thanks for any help you can give.

Ok, so I installed a program called Process Explorer, which is like Windows Task Manager, but with a bit more information. When Firefox is loading a new page, and is the current window, the page is slow to load and firefox takes between 65-80% of the cpu. If I click off firefox, it can take as much as 97% of the cpu, giving some up to AVG's avgrsx.exe, vprot.exe and sometimes plugin-container.exe, but loads the page faster.
Your instructions:
"let your firewall ask again for permission to get full, unrestricted, access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process. "
I'm not sure what you mean - should I see this happening (as in it asking permission from me to grant access)? Because I don't.
I've attached a screenshot of Process explorer top cpu processes while the page is loading.

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OK this obviously won't apple to everyone but... I managed to DRAMATICALLY reduce the page load time.
Firstly, this tip is for you if you're using a background image on your page - in the content for example - where I'm using mine.
iWeb, for some reason known only to the developers, creates a PNG image the COMPLETE size of your web page!
So if you're site is 700px wide and you've got a lot of photos on a page then it could go say 3000px in height. iWeb will create a 700px X 3300px (or so) PNG with your background.
THIS WAS 1.4MB!!!! for me..... absolutely crazy!
They put in no-repeat on the background CSS.
So how to fix this...
It's actually quite easy
1) Publish to a directory
2) using photoshop or some other image editing tool that can open PNG files, open up the largest background_image1.png - largest being largest in px X px - e.g. 700 X 3300 is bigger than 700X1800
3) crop the image in width from 700px to 5px - yep you read that right - crop it to 5px!
(Now obviously this depends on the image you're using in the background but I am assuming that most images are patterns that repeat horizontally... if you have another image that repeats horizontally and is bigger than 5px then make the image as wide as your repeating image)
4) save the image as a JPG
5) open MassReplaceIt
6) create a query where you replace /background_image1.png) no-repeat with /background_image1.jpg) repeat-x
7) set it to update all HTML pages that use a background
8) copy the JPG to all folders that have the background image (unfortunately as the folder name is different it's difficult to just put the image in the /images directory - and i don't know how to use wildcards in massreplaceit - any tips welcome)
NOTE: I am using the same image background on all pages for consistency therefore I have the same filename - I am assuming that it's like that for everyone - the filename that is - so checkout that the replace will work for you.
Well hope that helps you - I managed to reduce the page load times dramatically and now I can actually consider using iWeb for generating pages for my family in Australia who are still on 56Kbit modems and don't have broadband available.
Cheers
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http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.nmrtubes.com/
Your entire home page is made entirely from
images.....consider using some
use of CSS and background colour, minimal graphics and some
actual text, and
you'll be a long way better off.
Brendon
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available to check in
> until now...so I'm reposting and this time I included my
web address!
>
> Does anyone know how to make pages load faster? My page
loads
> incrementally at
> the moment. The only images on my home page are .gifs so
I'm wondering why
> it
> still comes in choppy when the files are so small. The
address is
> www.nmrtubes.com
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hey, just to keep you updated - there is now a fix available for firefox 25, which should address the particular problem of pages not loading unless the mouse is moved.
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Like many other "i" apps from Apple iWeb is an "abstraction layer" builder which is what allows it to be a mostly WYSIWYG site creator. But the downside is that because you can't edit code (and personally I don't want to be an HTML code monkey) that means iWeb has to use some hidden, under-the-hood tricks to create some of the "pretty" graphic elements we all like to see, such as shadows, borders, reflections, etc.
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Like many other "i" apps from Apple iWeb is an "abstraction layer" builder which is what allows it to be a mostly WYSIWYG site creator. But the downside is that because you can't edit code (and personally I don't want to be an HTML code monkey) that means iWeb has to use some hidden, under-the-hood tricks to create some of the "pretty" graphic elements we all like to see, such as shadows, borders, reflections, etc.
After building a couple sites that weren't very complex I noticed photos and other graphics were taking far too long to load compared to other, similar sites and wondered what was causing the slow page-loading times. By using tools like RAGE iWeb SEO Tool and, the built-in page inspector in Safari I was able to see exactly what was going on under the surface: iWeb has to use JavaScript code to create and build things like borders on objects or photos, reflections, shadows and even non-web-safe colors.
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1. Try to reduce the use of borders around graphic elements as much as possible.
2. When you want a reflection, shadow, border or even perspective change on a photo or image file, use this application to create those effects instead: http://www.acqualia.com/picturesque/. This can build all those elements INTO the image file and can output it as an optimized PNG. Otherwise, every effect has to be built in Javascript separately by the browser - and also explains why some browsers like FireFox are unable to even display shadows created by iWeb.
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Hello
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> If you visit
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as opposed to
> simply
> appearing in place after you click on a link to a page.
Why and what is
> the
> solution - if you could be specific as to what I would
do to fix, I'd
> appreciate it. I've messed with this periodically over
months to no avail.
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> Thank you very much
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Why do firefox pages load faster if I switch to different application on the taskbar?

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