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DeadlyAkkuret

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Almost every time I open Firefox it freezes after a few seconds and keeps me waiting for 2-3 minutes before it works again. It's been crashing constantly for the past few weeks and I've decided it's best I just stick with IE.

How do I switch my Firefox favourites to IE?

Alternatively, is there a way to fix Firefox?
 
Nothing could make me go back to IE as my main browser. If I had issues with Firefox, I'd a) try and fix it, or b) try Opera or Chrome.
 
I hate Chrome, never tried Opera. I don't really like IE but at least it's working right now, I did an update for Firefox and I don't know if it's fixed the problem.
 

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Just use Firefox's add on , Xmarks. It saves your bookmarks and passwords to a server so you can retrieve them every time something happens.

It does a restore like a normal system restore and syncs everytime you add a new bookmark or password. Very handy add on.
 
Click bookmarks in FireFox then Organise bookmarks then click Import and Backup and backup your bookmarks up to html file.

Then go to IE, click favourites then click the drop down menu next to add to favourites then click Import and Export, Import from a File, follow the prompts and your done.
 
I have been having Issues with FF to but not the same ones others have had!

I have been having a problem opening links from nearly every site i go to. It seems when i click on it ( the link ) it takes me to the new page but loads for ages and the link never appears.... But if i click the back arrow or close the page in the toolbar to take me to the previous page viewed and then click the forward arrow or click on the link again to repeat the action the link loads in 1 second... :eek:

It does it all the time lately and especially on the TAB website while i am having a punt when you go to look at other meetings and refresh the odds.

Very annoying and i may try Chrome soon.
 
Homeless said:
Click bookmarks in FireFox then Organise bookmarks then click Import and Backup and backup your bookmarks up to html file.

Then go to IE, click favourites then click the drop down menu next to add to favourites then click Import and Export, Import from a File, follow the prompts and your done.
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Someone actually answered the original question :thumbsu: Lol thank you.
 
If you wanted to try a different version of Firefox, or remove it and re-install (may fix your Firefox problem perhaps?), I've found the add-on FEBE pretty handy, and easy to use. It will backup all your firefox settings and bookmarks, including add-ons and passwords, or you can just choose which parts to backup, and import them back into the new install. I use this when re-installing windows, or getting a new computer.

Do you have a heap of add-ons installed? If so that could be part of the problem.

Also if you have a heap of bookmarks (like thousands). Every so often I'll export my bookmarks to html, delete all the bookmarks, and then open the exported html file and bookmark that. That seems to help me when Firefox starts slowing down while loading up.

Don't know if any of those things will do much, but could be worth a try. It seems to be noticeable to me if FF is running slow.
 
DeadlyAkkuret said:
Almost every time I open Firefox it freezes after a few seconds and keeps me waiting for 2-3 minutes before it works again. It's been crashing constantly for the past few weeks and I've decided it's best I just stick with IE.

How do I switch my Firefox favourites to IE?

Alternatively, is there a way to fix Firefox?
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Get rid of it it's pissing me off at late and Internet explorer is as bad use a different one try Safari 4.0.3 or SeaMonkey 2.0
 
Anyone else noticed with Firefox after updating to the newest version the browser seems to lag after opening over 3 tabs. This never used to happen previously.

Currently using version 3.5.5
 

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twentydollarnote said:
yep whats with that?
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For some reason it is using up a heap more memory in Windows Task Manager. I have 5 tabs open now and it is using well over 120k memory causing the program to lag.

No idea why.
 
Had the same problem with Firefox hogging all my memory but it is easily fixed. I found this website which fully explains it.

Basically there are two steps:
1. Install flashblock plugin (70kb)
2. Disable Java (Tools menu, Options, Content tab)

Firefox runs smoothly again with these changes. What it does is that all media (eg. ads, video, live streaming) aren't loaded automatically. In their place is a play sign. To load the media click on the play sign and it will work as normal. This system works well and saves bandwidth to boot since you get to choose which media you want to load.
 
New update seems to have fixed the memory hogging it was doing. Last week I had like 6 tabs open and it was going well over 200k.

At the moment I have a butt load of tabs open, probably 20 or more, and it is only around 130-140k
 

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twentydollarnote said:
that web page was made in 2007 only seems to be a problem for me with the latest firefox
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Shit I didn't even notice that. In any case it fixed the problem for me. My PC is a old piece of shit (single-core, 512MB Ram:eek:) and before it was using 90-95% of my CPU with 3-4 tabs open, now using 10-15% with 10-12 tabs open.
 
yea i got this problem too except my firefox slows to a crawl after a period of time and is not related to tabs. I have noticed opening streams and java applications being the catalyst for the regression in speed. I thought it was only my problem but it appears alot of people have it, hope they can fix that shit.
 

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