I have to refresh Firefox every time I open it after previously closing it
Whenever I close down Firefox, it is then very slow to restart. When it does restart, pages are very (and I mean very!) slow to load. I have to go into help>troubleshooting and then refresh. This can take up to 5 minutes in total from first opening the browser. Once refreshed, all is well and performance is as slick as usual. Any ideas please? I am using a macbook pro running El Capitan 10.11.1 Firefox version 42.0
Thanks in advance!
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?
While still in Safe Mode,
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Hi. Thanks for your reply. When in Safe Mode, everything is fine and the problem does not exist. As requested, please see below:
Application Basics
Name: Firefox Version: 42.0 Build ID: 20151029151421 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (default: false) Safe Mode: true
Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days
All Crash Reports
Extensions
Graphics
Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none Device ID: 0x0fd5 GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1 Basic Supports Hardware H264 Decoding: false Vendor ID: 0x10de windowLayerManagerRemote: false AzureCanvasBackend: skia AzureContentBackend: quartz AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0
Important Modified Preferences
browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400 browser.cache.disk.filesystem_reported: 1 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.frecency_experiment: 1 browser.download.importedFromSqlite: true browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 7 browser.sessionstore.upgradeBackup.latestBuildID: 20151029151421 browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20151029151421 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 42.0 dom.apps.reset-permissions: true dom.mozApps.used: true extensions.lastAppVersion: 42.0 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.abi: x86-gcc3-u-i386-x86_64 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastUpdate: 1449064573 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.version: 1.5.1 media.gmp-manager.buildID: 20151029151421 media.gmp-manager.lastCheck: 1449064572 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true network.predictor.cleaned-up: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1449065392 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858 plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf plugin.importedState: true plugin.state.nplastpass: 0 privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: true storage.vacuum.last.index: 0 storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1449065390
Important Locked Preferences
JavaScript
Incremental GC: true
Accessibility
Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0
Library Versions
NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.10 Version in use: 4.10.10
NSS Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.4 Basic ECC
NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.4 Basic ECC
NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.4 Basic ECC
NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Version in use: 3.19.4
Experimental Features
Do you have any add-ons? I don't see any listed.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode;
Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.
Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.
Restart Firefox. Are there any problems?
Hi. That solved it!
Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated
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