In every recent version of Firefox I've downloaded (up to 15 now)I've had sluggish behavior and frequent crashes. My antivirus software sends me a popup while I'm in Firefox saying, "Warning: High disk usage by Mozilla Firefox" with a quote as to how many MB the program is using. The last quote was 1039 MB.
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Jump to Postget a better antivirus program ,microsoft security essencial is a very very good one,not a resource hog ,running it for the past 2 yrs or more now ,and it catches everything nastthat come our way , and its free , it even built into windows 8 now .
Jump to Postim not saying it wouldn't detect viruses ,im saying its a resorce hog and and personaly donlt like Norton [except for corprate version ]dose this behavour happen with internet explorer ,or is it just firefox ,and yes I think it could be caused by the norton360 temporaly disable it[a setting …
Jump to Postgo into to Norton preference and turn it off,just to see if its the problem with firefox
Jump to PostRclicking the tray icon should get you the options:
-Click Auto- Protect > Turn Off
-Click Personal Firewall > Turn OffFF should only use about 80MB if no sites loaded? Check it in Task Man. What addons are running?
Jump to PostYou likely have a redirector running. Kick off with Malwarebytes...
==Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
from: http://www.majorgeeks.com/Malwarebytes_Anti-Malware_d5756.html
=Dclick that file, mbam-setup.exe, to install the application,
-ensure that it is set to update and start, …
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