Firefox slow to load
Posted: July 1st, 2019, 8:39 am
Elderly downstairs desktop (highish spec, built 2013) is used as the equivalent of the piano from times past.
Rather than set up seperate log ins, I use Edge for banking, #1 Daughter uses Chrome and for day to day stuff, Firefox.
Firefox has gotten quite a bit slower recently, load time is about a second, followed by a four second delay before the Google search prompt appears (Google uk) is the default page.
Neither Chrome, nor Edge are this slow and will comfortably pop up the Google search from starting to load in a much more reasonable second or so.
I would suspect this has something to do with partner linking Firefox into Gmail, Facebook etc. The other two browsers are less tampered with.
Just wondering if there is much that can done to restore Firefox to its former performance level.
Regards,
B.
BTW.
Quad core Intel processor with hyperthreading (3.3 - 3.7)
16GB memory
1 TB SSD
2GB Nvidia graphics card (nothing special but very quiet)
Rather than set up seperate log ins, I use Edge for banking, #1 Daughter uses Chrome and for day to day stuff, Firefox.
Firefox has gotten quite a bit slower recently, load time is about a second, followed by a four second delay before the Google search prompt appears (Google uk) is the default page.
Neither Chrome, nor Edge are this slow and will comfortably pop up the Google search from starting to load in a much more reasonable second or so.
I would suspect this has something to do with partner linking Firefox into Gmail, Facebook etc. The other two browsers are less tampered with.
Just wondering if there is much that can done to restore Firefox to its former performance level.
Regards,
B.
BTW.
Quad core Intel processor with hyperthreading (3.3 - 3.7)
16GB memory
1 TB SSD
2GB Nvidia graphics card (nothing special but very quiet)