297199 - All internet related operations with latest version of Firefox 1.04 have become deathly slow.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

From the time I installed the upgrade to 1.04, my entire internet experience
with Firefox has become very slow, begining when Firefox is simply starting up.
This was not the case with previous versions of Firefox.

It seems that from that same day, other internet related operations, such as my
MS-Outlook Email have also become much slower.

Are there MS-Windows internet-related components that were changed in the
Firefox 1.04 upgrade?? 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Firefox 1.04 in Win-98
2.Wait, Wait, Wait
3.Finally get Firefox up; 
4. Change/Select a url, wait, wait

Actual Results:  
Results happen, eventually, without a bomb, but very, very slowly

Expected Results:  
Respond faster. Have switched back to old MS-IE Explorer and it does not have
the wait times that the new Firefox has.

It is almost as if my Win-98 environment has been changed by the Firefox 1.04
upgrade; and changed in a way that everything runs slower.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Extremely unlikely to be firefox's fault.

Does the slowness happen in firefox's safemode?
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Does the slowness happen with a fresh restart of your PC and then on loading
another internet program (like outlook) BEFORE firefox has even been launched?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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