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Firefox 3.6 seems very slow
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Mar 18, 2010, 03:49 PM
 
Ive upgraded to FF 3.6 and at times it seems very slow to load

anyone else have this problem or notice it?

however, most of the delay seems to come from the google news page perhaps

so maybe its google.

hows that for a pretty disorganized thread:



Safari seems to load the google page fine, and its links

FF 3.6 also doesnt quit properly from time to time

is there a way to go back to FF 3.5.x?

thanks
(Last edited by rotuts; Mar 18, 2010 at 04:24 PM. (Reason:added to thread with more info))
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Mar 18, 2010, 08:52 PM
 
No issues here with 3.6 loading pages slowly, what add-ons do you have?
     
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Mar 19, 2010, 08:15 AM
 
I think this only has to do with the google news site.

I have add blocker plus, and fast download.

this only happens on links I click at the google news site

of note is that the other day while I was running no browser, using little snitch google kept wanting to access my computer and I said no several times as who knows what google is up to.

I think it happend after that.

Ill ask in a new thread

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Mar 19, 2010, 12:56 PM
 
I went back to the previous version (3.5.8). Reason: I zoom in on most sites on my 13". With version 3.6, the zoom in wouldn't stay after reloading sites, so I had to zoom in every time.
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Mar 19, 2010, 03:18 PM
 
where did you get 3.5.8? I cant find it or it defaults to 3.6

any ideas?

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Mar 19, 2010, 03:33 PM
 
Originally Posted by rotuts View Post
where did you get 3.5.8? I cant find it...
I found it HERE under 'Other Versions'
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Mar 21, 2010, 08:43 AM
 
I tried 3.5.8: same thing.

then I allowed all of googles inquiries and rebooterd:

works fine now

how stupid of me not to try the reboot first!

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