441025 - firefox makes internet S-L-O-W!

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[melvin yeo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

firefox has made my internet surfing unbearably slow at times, as pages take their own sweet time to load. im not the only one suffering from this. funny though cos it works perfectly on other occasions. also on a sidenote, ever since installing it my internet has been experiencing problems with displaying webpages despite having a good connection indicated and MSN working

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox
2.surf the internet
3.five mins later, problem occurs
4. wait until problem subsides
5. continue surfing, where step 3 is repeated

Actual Results:  
firefox became v slow

Expected Results:  
load normally as i expect firefox would

nil

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Does the problem also occur in Firefox Safe Mode?
(it temporarily disables add-ons and themes, this test will help us narrow
down the cause of the problem)
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[myles7897]

try this article, also:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+hangs

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Melvin, can you try Firefox Safe Mode please?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode
If that works, then it's one of your extensions that is causing the problem.
Try disabling them one by one (restart Firefox each time) to find which one.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

No response from Reporter.

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