Firefox 3.5 Really Slow On Gmail And Youtube

Dad got himself a brand new laptop this week. While he may not be super tech savvy, he does very well for a 70+ year old man. But as you can imagine he needs plenty of help, usually the help required is simple but today he stumped me. FirefoxApparently YouTube and Gmail was slow as molasses and often ended up in blank page. Now I use Firefox 3.5 too but experience no such thing. Odd.

After running through the regular checkpoints – firewall, network, refresh cache and not working, I figured it had to be add-on related especially since these sites load beautifully on IE. Turns out, it was the Skype plugin.

After uninstalling the Skype plugin – which he never uses anyway, Gmail and YouTube came right up.

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  1. Stephanie Trahd on August 19, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    I would love to be able to use FireFox again. 🙁 FF was the only browser I used until 3 months ago when a “tech” person installed and ran IObit Advanced SystemCare3 on my computer. Now I can’t even open FF (or IE for that matter) and have had to use Chrome. Don’t get me wrong, Chrome is OK – but I miss my SEO plugins! And I need to be able to check my sites in other browsers. Grrrrr. Ok, rant over. Thanks for listening! 🙂



    • Lynette on August 19, 2009 at 8:38 pm

      Wow that is strange Stephanie. I too would be so super lost. I like Chrome in a way but still, so many tools on FF. Hope you eventually get it sorted out.



  2. Stephanie Trahd on August 19, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    I would love to be able to use FireFox again. 🙁 FF was the only browser I used until 3 months ago when a “tech” person installed and ran IObit Advanced SystemCare3 on my computer. Now I can’t even open FF (or IE for that matter) and have had to use Chrome. Don’t get me wrong, Chrome is OK – but I miss my SEO plugins! And I need to be able to check my sites in other browsers. Grrrrr. Ok, rant over. Thanks for listening! 🙂



    • Lynette on August 19, 2009 at 4:38 pm

      Wow that is strange Stephanie. I too would be so super lost. I like Chrome in a way but still, so many tools on FF. Hope you eventually get it sorted out.



  3. Marc on August 27, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    Wow, just worked like a charm for me too. Thanks Lynette.



    • Lynette on August 28, 2009 at 2:51 am

      Happy to help Marc.



  4. Marc on August 27, 2009 at 6:18 pm

    Wow, just worked like a charm for me too. Thanks Lynette.



    • Lynette on August 27, 2009 at 10:51 pm

      Happy to help Marc.



  5. Name on September 1, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    i had the same problem 🙁
    new skype plugin sucks.



  6. Lynette Chandler on September 2, 2009 at 10:35 am

    They probably haven't caught up with the new release since Skype changed a ton of things as well. I never used their FF plugin though.



  7. Perry on September 19, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    Wow!

    Thank you so much for this post!
    You're such a smart person x3
    YouTube works like a charm now! Thanks!



  8. Lynette Chandler on September 23, 2009 at 8:14 am

    Glad it worked out Perry.



  9. Tom Klein on November 10, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!! thank you!!!!!
    wow, i disabled that plugin a long time ago but who knew it would still cause problems
    only uninstalling it solved the problem
    amazing



  10. Lynette Chandler on November 10, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    Most welcome Tom. Very happy to hear that.



  11. Lynette Chandler on November 11, 2009 at 2:57 am

    Most welcome Tom. Very happy to hear that.