Firefox suddenly SLOW Edit: Resolved

[Populist_Prole]

Last edited Sat Nov 21, 2015, 10:08 PM - Edit history (1)

It just self-updated several days, maybe a week ago with the lastest & geatest. I have pretty high speed internet ( cable, 55 +Mps ) and Chrome shows no latent slowness. Desktop PC with Windows 7.

Everything seemed fine till the latest Firfox update. There was also a recent Nvidia driver update for my GPU which, while the graphics seem OK, I'm getting a pop-up after PC boot-up stating that my Nvidia backend process has failed. I don't know if this is a coincidence or a correlation.

Thanks for any advice.

[Historic NY]

1. Its been horrible with me too...

I cleared out the cache a couple times.

[Melissa G]

2. No advice, but similar experience without updates. n/t

[Pharaoh]

3. my Firefox started locking up

all the time a few weeks back. i went to chrome and all is fine. still running xp, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

[-none]

4. First thing to do is to...

Set Windows update to only notify you when there are up dates. Do not download or install. Then only install the security updates a week or so later. Unless there is a good reason, don't update any of the drivers Windows wants you to. Use the manufactures site for that.
Check the Computer help here or use Google for something along the lines of "windows update problems".
My Firefox problem showed up after I did a Windows security update. The problem went away on its own after several days.

And while I am on the subject of security, Malwarebytes and SUPERAntispyware are good programs to run regularly. The more popular web sites, Facebook, Pinterest, Yahoo, and similar, have been know to load you up with tracking cookies and sometimes PUPs. The same with links in post on DU.

[Populist_Prole]

5. Problem resolved

I was viciously attacked by a Trojan "Win32/Skeeyah.A!rfn". Attack after attack, almost one per minute. My anti-virus and anti-malware programs worked like mad dogs to keep them quarantined until I could remove the threat.

Back to the usual high speed performance now.

Odd that chrome wasn't affected, but Firefox is now faster than Chrome.

Thanks.