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My Firefox has been very slow or stops working for a period every since June.

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Firefox has been very slow or stops working for a period every since June. Memory usage is over 500,000k. unchecked Hardware feature and reinstalled it. Still the same. Is something I can do?

Firefox has been very slow or stops working for a period every since June. Memory usage is over 500,000k. unchecked Hardware feature and reinstalled it. Still the same. Is something I can do?

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hello, that kind of memory usage is in a normal range and shouldn't be related to a slowness issue. could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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philipp said

hello, that kind of memory usage is in a normal range and shouldn't be related to a slowness issue. could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

Application Basics


Name: Firefox Version: 38.0.5 Build ID: 20150525141253 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (default: false)

Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days


All Crash Reports (including 1 pending crash in the given time range)

Extensions


Name: Adblock Plus Version: 2.6.9.1-signed Enabled: true ID: {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}

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Name: Video DownloadHelper Version: 5.3.1.1-signed Enabled: true ID: {b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}

Graphics


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Important Modified Preferences


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Important Locked Preferences


JavaScript


Incremental GC: true

Accessibility


Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0

Library Versions


NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.8 Version in use: 4.10.8

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.18.1 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.18.1 Basic ECC

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.18.1 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.18.1 Basic ECC

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.18.1 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.18.1 Basic ECC

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.18.1 Version in use: 3.18.1

Experimental Features


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thank you. does updating flash and your other plugins make a difference?

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philipp said

thank you. does updating flash and your other plugins make a difference?

No, it still happening. I did update everything.