THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Mupepe on January 13, 2009, 10:47:25 PM
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firefox and internet explorer are going slowwwwwwwwwwwwww as fuck. the rest of the computer runs fine. i ran virus detection on superantispyware and avg and neither found anything.
could it be some setting or something? maybe an uninstall/reinstall of both? my actual internet speeds are fine (works great on my other pc), just the browsers are super sluggish.
it started out slowly when i would stream videos/music. ie/firefox would bloat up to about 300 mb's of RAM with one window open. if i ran ccleaner it would work again for a bit but the longer i streamed media, the worse it would get. now it's terrible when just browsing the net.
so help? anyone?
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Is you spyware updated? Did you check your cable/dsl provider for local outages? Did you run your anti-malware programs in SAFE MODE?
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From my experience today, compared to yesterday, everything is extremely slow. From MS to Dell's downloads(and I've done a lot)
Something IS going on today.
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1- clear all private data like history, cache and cookies.
2- run firefox in safemode (start menu then search for firefox safe mode) and IE7 in no add-ons mode (search for internet explorer via the start menu and you should see it), if the problem is gone then it's probably an addon causing this.
3- do what toxicadam suggested, preferably with malwarebytes.
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well i ran firefox in safe mode and it seems to be running better. albeit, this is without extensive testing. i was able to watch a 6 minute video without it stalling which is by far better than the 30 seconds i got out of a youtube video last night.
so what's the next step?
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also when this shit goes on, cpu usage goes to 100% while memory hovers around 50%