Firefox is Painfully Slow...

[fab5freddy]

My Firefox 3.01 for Mac is painfully slow....

What is wrong ?
I have several extensions and add-ons. ( web developer, etc,)
Could they be the problem ?

 

[Sun Baked]

Mine didn't slow down, though all I have for an add-on is the Weatherbug.

 

[tecknical]

mine is sorta slow. the only thing that i dont like is that sometimes it times out randomly

 

[Bigtree]

Mine is slow only downloading photos, and I have high speed cable!!!!

 

[fab5freddy]

how do you do a reinstall of firefox
while saving all your passwords and bookmarks ?

 

[rupie94]

Mine is really slow too.
But I use safari for surfing and firefox for the add-ons.
So when I see a website of which I want to see the code, I will open up firefox, open the website and use the firebug add-on.

 

[xxlordgold]

Are you using Google Desktop? I've found that the extension that it installs for FF was slowing it down majorly.

 

[.adam]

I know that this is hardly new information but I uninstalled about 3/4 of my extensions yesterday (given that I wasn't using a lot of them or didn't use them enough to justify keeping them) and the speed increase is incredible.

 

[fab5freddy]

why would anyone use google desktop on a Mac ?

Isn't Spotlight the same thing ?