How can I find what is causing Firefox to periodically freeze?
Best Answer
The most common reason for Firefox 'freezing' for a short amount of time is an extension compatibility problem.
The first thing I'd suggest is disabling all your current extensions and perhaps even your plug-ins. Then see what happens. If you find everything works, just re-enable your extensions/plug-ins one by one and test.
I would suggest using the Profile Manager to create a new profile alongside your existing one. The Profile Manager will let you choose which profile to use at startup.
In this new profile, disable all plugins. Use this new profile for a bit and see if the freezes keep happening. If they do, the problem is external to your profile; and has to do either with your Firefox installation or something else on your computer.
However, if the freezes don't happen in the new profile, you know it has something to do with the old one. You can start introducing plugins and extensions one at a time into the new profile to see if you can narrow down a culprit.
If the new profile is still running smoothly with all your plugins and extensions, try restoring data from your old profile, one piece at a time.
Through this process, you'll hopefully be able to deduce what's causing the problem, and if not, you'll have a new profile that doesn't cause the problem with most of your data in it.
First of all, if you want to decrease Firefox load time, remove all addons that you installed on it. All addons must be loaded during the load time and most of them are heavy enough to increase load times by a scale of seconds.
Also, you can find some tutorials that promisses increase Firefox performance. Take a look at these links:
Best Answer
The most common reason for Firefox 'freezing' for a short amount of time is an extension compatibility problem.
The first thing I'd suggest is disabling all your current extensions and perhaps even your plug-ins. Then see what happens. If you find everything works, just re-enable your extensions/plug-ins one by one and test.