Tag Archives: slow

Firefox got real slow

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

One day Firefox just came to a crawl when running web pages with JavaScript. Then I found out what was causing it and how to fix it. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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Uninstalling Intego Software

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

I’d rather eat an orange then brush my teeth with peppermint toothpaste than deal with cleaning up my system after using Intego’s software. If anything can bring the Windows reboot experience, coupled with the leaving of software cruft, to the Mac platform, this software does it in my opinion. Here’s how I finally got rid of it all. I hope. Continue reading →

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WPF Responsiveness Problem

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Ran into an interesting problem where a WPF application was acting really, really, really slow. So slow that moving the application window was jumpy. Selecting items in a grid would take several seconds. Scrolling a list box of simple items … Continue reading →

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Firefox Slow Page Load – Solved

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

Firefox 3 slow? 20 second page load times? Figured out why. And how to fix it. Continue reading →

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