Firefox

If you are running the latest version, have you got the page filtering enabled? That might slow it down a touch on a slow connection.

No help, just an observation, all my machines have SSDs and if anything I thought Firefox had become a bit nipper with recent builds. But, having just tried it on two machines with mechanical hard drives (Win7 and Win10) I can see what you mean. Seems to take ages to load and then some sites seem really slow to render.

Firefox itself isn't thrashing the disks in either machine or using excessive amounts of memory, wonder what's going on?

Works fine here.

What is this? I can find no reference to 'page filtering' in the Help for FF ver. 39.0.3. Or do you mean something with a different name? Or only available on ver. 40. Just puzzled.

Have you tried closing it completely (and making sure it is closed down by checking for processes in Task Manager) then restarting it.

FireFox used to leak memory all the time. Browser plugins for it leaked even more.

Just something to check.

Philip

Specifically this bit:

When I disable "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries" in Options/Security, everything works normally. (Everything goes a lot faster on other sites to.)

My connection is BT fibre. I'll have a look for page filtering, though.

Happens from first use after boot.

Does Ebay use any?

It seems to be a fairly recent thing.

Ah, ok. Thanks.

I, not knowing too much about PC software, these days, came across this...

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..'Beginning with version 40, as long as you have Firefox configured as your default browser, it will grab those requests and reroute them to whichever search engine you have chosen in your Firefox options.'

I don't suppose this action alone will slow access any but..?

Firefox is my preferred browser, but lately, I'm am becoming a little concerned with their affiliations. I upgrade very rarely.

...Ray.

Recently I've tried using Pale Moon,

I was quite surprised how swiftly such a "choc-a-block full of content" web page could actually completely load (5 seconds or less in both browsers). For once a web site that appears to have been designed by a web designer *with* a feckin' clue, a complete rarity these days.

Can waste some serious time on thisiscolossal.

En el artículo , Clive Page escribió:

I tried Pale Moon recently and was impressed with the speed, but ended up going back to Firefox. I can't remember why, unfortunately. Sorry.