Comments on: Slow Firefox 3, how to speed up Firefox 3

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:59:47 +0000

It worked!!!! In the run dialog box typing “firefox.exe -ProfileManager” made it run as fast as fire fox 2. Thank you! What once was slow now is fast.

By: forpetmenot

forpetmenot — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:03:29 +0000

It worked! Not sure of the logic behind it but who cares.

By: Ekaterinburg

Ekaterinburg — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:59:41 +0000

Tried the 1st method. didn’t help much((

By: admin

admin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:36:14 +0000

Sorry to hear that Ekaterinburg - we’ve found this to work on pretty much every machine we’ve had experience of FF3 on.

Can you supply your PC configuration… have you scanned for viruses and adware?

By: John Traynor

John Traynor — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:59:55 +0000

Worked a treat! And easy to follow instructions. Thank you for sharing this!

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:16:29 +0000

Dit werkt fantastisch! Zeer veel dank.

This works fantastic! Thank you very much.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:41:08 +0000

Incredible difference. Thanks.

By: Wolve

Wolve — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:09:10 +0000

The problem with this idea is, that you create a fully new profile. That means….all your saved bookmarks, saved passwords and other settings (like addons, skins, plugins) are gone in the new profile.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:32:26 +0000

@ Wolve - yes this will create a basic account.

The beauty being that it will allow you to add back your plugins / add-ons etc. in a test environment, without the worry of messing up your master account.

If you find you are experiencing slow down problems when adding a particular plugin / add-on you can try removing it from the main account – at the very least, it’s a useful method of finding the rogue code.