Hi,
I find ever since I went to FireFox 55 my webpages take longer to load. FF 54 was much better. I'm not thinking of going to Google Chrome.
Thanks,
FF 55 Slow Loading of Pages
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LIMPET235
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Re: FF 55 Slow Loading of Pages
Try running in Firefox "Safe Mode".
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode
or... Help > Re-start with Addons disabled or hold down your Shift key as you click the Firefox short cut..
Do not check any boxes.
This is a fault finding mode.
NB: Be careful of the "Delete all bookmarks except for back-ups" option.
Don't add any extensions or themes until it's working O.K.
If Firefox is O.K. in Safe Mode then it's possibly an extension/theme...etc causing it.
Run Firefox in normal mode & disable them all. Re-start Firefox.
Enable each in turn, or by ½'s, re-starting Firefox each time, till the faulty extension is found.
Either update or un-install it.
See this incomplete list,
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
When in Safe Mode...
* The status of plug-ins is not affected.
* Custom preferences are not affected.
* All extensions are disabled.
* The default theme is used, without a persona.
* userChrome.css and userContent.css are ignored.
* The JIT/Javascript compiler is disabled.
* The default toolbar layout is used.
* Hardware acceleration is disabled.
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode
or... Help > Re-start with Addons disabled or hold down your Shift key as you click the Firefox short cut..
Do not check any boxes.
This is a fault finding mode.
NB: Be careful of the "Delete all bookmarks except for back-ups" option.
Don't add any extensions or themes until it's working O.K.
If Firefox is O.K. in Safe Mode then it's possibly an extension/theme...etc causing it.
Run Firefox in normal mode & disable them all. Re-start Firefox.
Enable each in turn, or by ½'s, re-starting Firefox each time, till the faulty extension is found.
Either update or un-install it.
See this incomplete list,
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
When in Safe Mode...
* The status of plug-ins is not affected.
* Custom preferences are not affected.
* All extensions are disabled.
* The default theme is used, without a persona.
* userChrome.css and userContent.css are ignored.
* The JIT/Javascript compiler is disabled.
* The default toolbar layout is used.
* Hardware acceleration is disabled.
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(Always choose the "Custom" Install.)
Win-10-H/64 bit/500G SSD/16 Gig Ram/450Watt PSU/350WattUPS/Firefox-115.0.2/T-bird-115.3.2./SnagIt-v10.0.1/MWP-7.12.125.
(Always choose the "Custom" Install.)
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Reflective
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Re: FF 55 Slow Loading of Pages
Try hitting CTRL+F5. This will download a fresh copy of the site directly from the server.
If that's faster, clear the browser cache. The option to do that can be found by clicking Tools ---> Options ---> Advanced and then click the Network tab. You'll find the option to clear the cache in there. If you can't see the Tools link on the top menu hit the ALT key.
Firefox uses the cache to store elements of sites which are unlikely to change. However, if they do then it takes longer to load a page because the elements which have changed have to replace those which have already been retrieved from the cache before a page can load properly.
If that's faster, clear the browser cache. The option to do that can be found by clicking Tools ---> Options ---> Advanced and then click the Network tab. You'll find the option to clear the cache in there. If you can't see the Tools link on the top menu hit the ALT key.
Firefox uses the cache to store elements of sites which are unlikely to change. However, if they do then it takes longer to load a page because the elements which have changed have to replace those which have already been retrieved from the cache before a page can load properly.