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why is firefox 4 running the slowest its ever been

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loaded firefox4 and it now runs very very slow

loaded firefox4 and it now runs very very slow

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I agree, it is painfully slow and uses suffers badly from memory leakage compared to 3.6.1.x.

Mozilla is blaming poorly coded addons, and have released their Top 10 list of addon shame - which is going to be updated weekly.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/#addon-11

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Wow how many of us use Firebug literally every single day? That is a huge issue for me. FF 4.0 is running like a dog and I am really disappointed at this point.

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