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by: charliejh December 3, 2012 12:06 PM PST

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by charliejh - 12/3/12 12:06 PM

I have a brand new computer with windows 8 and would like to know why Firefox 17 is so slow to load a web page from a search. IE 10 is fast with no problems and Chrome is also fast. Firefox was fast when 1st loaded then after several days boom, slow.


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Clarification request: Have you read such things like this? (link)

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 12/3/12 1:48 PM

In Reply to: Firefox 17 by charliejh

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/943070

It appears there's a lot of reasons it can feel slow.
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firefox 17 is faster than IE 10

by amanodigma - 12/6/12 1:45 AM

In Reply to: Have you read such things like this? (link) by R. Proffitt Moderator

firefox 17 is faster than IE 10


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Firefox 17 works fine for me

by wpgwpg - 12/3/12 12:12 PM

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I have Firefox 17 on my 5 home computers and the 28 I support, and I haven't seen the degradation you describe. First I think I'd uninstall then reinstall Firefox. Then I'd boot to Safe Mode and do a full system scan for viruses because Firefox shouldn't be slower that IE for the majority of things.


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by charliejh - 12/5/12 5:14 AM

In Reply to: Firefox 17 works fine for me by wpgwpg

Thank you for the reply but there are no viruses what so ever on my computer. I am running Windows 8 with IE-10 and it is not slow as previous versions. I had the problem before on previous versions of FF. I have Norton security from Comcast and have run all scans including Norton Power Eraser and I also have Advanced System Care Pro and no viruses were detected.


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it's probably the Norton

by itsdigger - 12/15/12 2:30 AM

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security from Comcast . I have Comcast but got rid of the Norton .


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Firefox 17

by leonvictor2012 - 12/15/12 12:55 AM

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Hi, fix your issue with below link, It will help you https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes


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