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I have to refresh Firefox every time I open it after previously closing it

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Whenever I close down Firefox, it is then very slow to restart. When it does restart, pages are very (and I mean very!) slow to load. I have to go into help>troubleshooting and then refresh. This can take up to 5 minutes in total from first opening the browser. Once refreshed, all is well and performance is as slick as usual. Any ideas please? I am using a macbook pro running El Capitan 10.11.1 Firefox version 42.0

Thanks in advance!

Whenever I close down Firefox, it is then very slow to restart. When it does restart, pages are very (and I mean very!) slow to load. I have to go into help>troubleshooting and then refresh. This can take up to 5 minutes in total from first opening the browser. Once refreshed, all is well and performance is as slick as usual. Any ideas please? I am using a macbook pro running El Capitan 10.11.1 Firefox version 42.0 Thanks in advance!

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options)
key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?

While still in Safe Mode,

Type about:support in the address bar and press Enter. Under the main banner, press the button; Copy Text To Clipboard.. Then in the reply box at the bottom of this page, do a right click in the box and select Paste. This will show us your system details. No Personal Information Is Collected.

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Hi. Thanks for your reply. When in Safe Mode, everything is fine and the problem does not exist. As requested, please see below:

Application Basics


Name: Firefox Version: 42.0 Build ID: 20151029151421 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (default: false) Safe Mode: true

Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days


All Crash Reports

Extensions


Graphics


Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none Device ID: 0x0fd5 GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1 Basic Supports Hardware H264 Decoding: false Vendor ID: 0x10de windowLayerManagerRemote: false AzureCanvasBackend: skia AzureContentBackend: quartz AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: none AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0

Important Modified Preferences


browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400 browser.cache.disk.filesystem_reported: 1 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.frecency_experiment: 1 browser.download.importedFromSqlite: true browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 7 browser.sessionstore.upgradeBackup.latestBuildID: 20151029151421 browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20151029151421 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 42.0 dom.apps.reset-permissions: true dom.mozApps.used: true extensions.lastAppVersion: 42.0 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.abi: x86-gcc3-u-i386-x86_64 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastUpdate: 1449064573 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.version: 1.5.1 media.gmp-manager.buildID: 20151029151421 media.gmp-manager.lastCheck: 1449064572 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true network.predictor.cleaned-up: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1449065392 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858 plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf plugin.importedState: true plugin.state.nplastpass: 0 privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: true storage.vacuum.last.index: 0 storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1449065390

Important Locked Preferences


JavaScript


Incremental GC: true

Accessibility


Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0

Library Versions


NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.10 Version in use: 4.10.10

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.4 Basic ECC

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.4 Basic ECC

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.4 Basic ECC

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.19.4 Version in use: 3.19.4

Experimental Features


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Do you have any add-ons? I don't see any listed.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode;

Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.

Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

Restart Firefox. Are there any problems?

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Hi. That solved it!

Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated

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Hello,

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