Getting really annoyed with Firefox!!!!

[bballplayr366]

Ok here's the issue. When I recently reformated my computer cuz it was running ridiculously slow, and since then my firefox is giving me problems. It has trouble loading pages, either taking a long time to load or not loading at all. No error message, just loading for 5-10 mins at a time. But sometimes it runs perfectly fine. I have an cable internet connection so it shouldn't take this long and my IE is working perfectly fine. My thinking was that I just needed to re-install firefox. So, I saved my profile folder that holds my bookmarks and stuff, and uninstalled Firefox. Restarted the comp, then downloaded the new Firefox 2.0.0.1 version to copy and paste my profile folder to the new one, thinking everything would be ok. Wrong again. This has become an incredible nuisance and would like to see if there are any suggestions out there that can help with this problem.

I'm not completely computer suavy but I do know the basics, so if anyone can help it would be very much appreciated.

[Calum]

Just uninstall and reinstall Firefox again.
It won't delete your profile to uninstall it, so don't worry.
The problem is, if you saved your profile from an older version and are using the same profile it may cause problems.
So try uninstalling and reinstalling it and see if that helps.
Another thing to try would be Firefox's safe mode, which starts Firefox with no extensions or themes.
If the problem doesn't occur in Firefox - safe mode, then it' an extension or theme problem.

[bballplayr366]

Did what you just suggested and the problem still remains, even in safe mode. I'm starting to get really irriated with this situation because I have a lot of school work to take care of and here in the resident halls, we're supposed to use Firefox only, (it's for a networking reason I guess).

[Calum]

Remove Firefox again, and also move or delete the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder, and the C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox folder.
This will delete or move all your preferences, your profile, extensions, themes etc, so if you want to keep the move the folders somewhere else, like the desktop, rather than deleting them.
Then reboot, and install CCleaner's Issues function to remove anything related to Firefox it finds left over in the registry, such as file associations, short-cut references etc.
Be careful when using CCleaner and backup your registry before you clean anything.
Then reboot again.
Then reinstall Firefox and see if it works with a fresh new profile, no extensions etc.

[bballplayr366]

same ol' problem....

[WillyW]

same ol' problem....

This problem of yours seems vaguely familiar to me.    I may have read something about it here:  http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

You can do a seach there and see if you find posts about it, and see what they did to solve it.

Those forums are active.