| One common complaint about Firefox is that at | | | | Other times these addons conflict with each |
| times it can run very slow. The user will get | | | | other. This is a major source of the slowdown in |
| frustrated with the browser and blame Firefox | | | | speed. |
| for being a bad browser. The reality is that there | | | | Disable your addons to make sure that these |
| are some other things that should be taken into | | | | aren't the source of your problem. Many times |
| consideration first. | | | | when people have asked in forums about the |
| If you haven't restarted your computer and | | | | slowness of Firefox the addons were the issue. |
| restarted the browser in awhile, it's a good idea to | | | | Each one of these will take up a bit of your ram |
| do this first. Generally when you have any | | | | and eventually with too many, the browser will be |
| computer problem or application issue, a restart is | | | | slow. There is no way to run unlimited additional |
| the best place to start because many times that | | | | plugins without eventually running into resource |
| will fix whatever issue it is Firefox or not. This will | | | | problems. |
| prevent from having to mess with something that | | | | Think of this. Firefox is an open source application |
| didn't need to be taken care of. | | | | with thousands of people who have contributed |
| One thing that you have to understand about the | | | | to the browser. Where is the logic that thousands |
| Firefox browser is that there are thousands of | | | | of programmers would purposely release a |
| addons. These addons are not independently | | | | browser that is slow? Why would they make a |
| checked by Mozilla to make sure they all work | | | | bad version of the software when there are |
| together. At times some take up quite a bit of | | | | thousands of eyeballs carefully looking over the |
| resources causing the browser to slow down. | | | | code? The reality is that they would not. |