Firefox Lag?

Hi guys

I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser (because I hate IE) and it has been
extremely slow, sometimes when I Click the firefox icon on desktop. the browser takes up to 20 seconds to open.

I heard about a tweak (about: ) thing in the search bar and tried that and it is still slow as hell.

Although other browsers don't take this long to load, I do like Firefox's features.

*I have checked for adware/spyware etc but I haven't got any.
I use Microsoft (former Giant) Anti-spyware and Norton Antivirus 2005 (both are updated)

Any reasons why it is awfully slow?

 

have you tried clearing the cache or uninstalling and reinstalling after a disk cleanup and defrag

 

I delete the cache on a regular basis, and I also have uninstall/reinstall. I defrag last night (defrag said "You do not need to defragment this volume" but I did).

Also, I tend to keep everything neat and only have very few things on this pc, just what I need.

 

Try this FF tweaking:
http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/59/42/

 

Firefox is slow to start compared to IE because unlike the latter, it doesnt preload part of itself on startup. You can use a firefox preloader utility to help
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/ , but if your system is old and slow it will still take a while to load up.

In such a case I highly recommend you use k-melon http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

K-melon like firefox is based on gecko as well, but is built only for windows (firefox is cross plaform for mac, linux etc) . It doesnt use XUL widgets , but native windows widgets, which speeds things up.

Feature wise,K-melon has at least as many features as firefox.

The tweaks here only speed up page loading, but will not help with the inital loading up of firefox.

 

Thank you for that advice clues

 

you could try - right-clicking the icon you use to launch FF and clicking Properties then in the Taget bit add - /Prefetch:1 with a space, like below
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1

i have it but it doesn't do much for me

 

Thankyou, just tried it