Why does Firefox do this?

Terrier_Jimlad · 17 Jul 2009 at 18:46

If I visit any fleebay page in Firefox it sits there, where as if I load the same page up in IE it opens instantly ... here's what I mean:

I've tried re-installing FF, am on the latest 3.5.1 and cleared all cookies/temp files etc etc ...

Anyone got any ideas lol

n1kunj · 17 Jul 2009 at 18:54

I've just searched for the same item in FF 3.5.1 and it loaded instantly, as quickly as IE8 so it's not an FF issue. Maybe an extension/add-on problem?

Terrier_Jimlad · 17 Jul 2009 at 18:56

Got no addons at the moment, fresh install of FF ... was fine yesterday, argh!

randal · 17 Jul 2009 at 19:00

Mine does it from time to time, especially on the login screen. It'll sit there for ages, then all of a sudden it drops in.

Check in the bottom left hand corner, see where it's loading in from.

Terrier_Jimlad · 17 Jul 2009 at 19:03

I re-uninstalled Firefox and realised it still left a Firefox folder in c:\users\xxx\appdata so just deleted it, re-installed and bada bing we're back in action lol ... cheers peeps

Mattus · 18 Jul 2009 at 01:54

Yep. Reinstalling Firefox doesn't really do anything - you're just deleting the program files and putting them back on again. 99% of Firefox problems can be solved by creating a new profile, which is basically what you've done by deleting the files in AppData\Mozilla. Simply reinstalling the program doesn't do this.