Hi, I don’t know if this has enything to do with Avast, but when I click on my browser (Firefox) the Blue ball with an (a) on it keeps turning and it takes about 30 secs to get to firefox home page, even when I first bootup and get to my desktop it take awhile to settle down before I can do anything,
I have winxp 2gb of ram, I did a virus scan and avast did find a three viruses, I also did a scan for malware with malwarebyts and the found lots of trojans, I got rid of them, I have since done more scans and haven’t found ant more.
It will rotate, a) because it is scanning the browsers files as it opens/runs them, b) the web shield will also be scanning the home page elements as they to are loaded, both of which will cause the ‘a’ to rotate, indicating scanning in progress.
I never run firefox on boot, but when my boot has completed and then it loads in about 8-10 seconds. This depends on lots of things the number of themes and ad-on you have installed and any other things you have customized in firefox.
You don’t say what CPU you have as that can have an impact, as can your HDD (IDE/SATA HDD type, its size, data size, fat32 or NTFS) if it is badly fragmented, etc. ?
Hi, my cpu is AMD athlon 64x2 dual core 4400, hdd samsung 250 gb, mobo Asus M2V-MX
Well the system seems up to the work, so I would suggest, a) check the number of firefox add-ons/themes you might have and prune those which aren’t essential and b) do a defrag to see if that helps with loading.
There is another small application, speedyfox (http://www.crystalidea.com/), that is meant to be able to optimise the various firefox setting files, etc.
I apologise, I’ve given you the speck for the wrong pc, we have two computers the system spect I’ve given you is for my pc which is working fine, the pc that has a problem is my daughters, which is Dell dimension 2400, hdd 40gb, cpu celeron 2.4ghz, intel i845GV chipset, o/s winxp service pack 3
Well that is a lower spec, but no RAM figure and ram is also important to speed of loading (firefox does use a lot of RAM). The old celerons were no race horses, time really isn’t a factor it can only load as fast as it can.
What really is a factor is if in the past with the same software installed it loaded quicker, if so then you have to start pruning add-ons/themes, get speedyfox as I suggested and defrag your HDD. If that doesn’t work then I would say a reinstall of firefox starting from scratch with only essential add-ons (security based ones, NoScript, AdBlock Plus, etc.)
Thanks I’ll give ago, the ram is 1gb