How to Boost the Performance of Mozilla Firefox
While surfing the Internet using Mozilla Firefox as your Web browser, you may experience issues which prevent Web sites from displaying properly or at all, or a failure to navigate to the correct site or intermittent lockups and slow performance. Try clearing the Mozilla Firefox temporary Internet file cache as in most cases clearing the cache will resolve poor performance issues.
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Instructions
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Open Mozilla Firefox. In the menu at the top of the Mozilla Firefox browser, click "Tools" and select "Clear Private Data."
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Uncheck all the checkboxes with the exception of the Cache checkbox. The other selections will delete your browsing history and passwords that the browser automatically enters for you, so confirm that all but the Cache checkbox has been cleared.
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Click on the "Clear Private Data Now" button and wait a few seconds to allow time for the files that were stored in the cache to get deleted.
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Click the "X" inside the red square in the upper-right corner of the Mozilla Firefox window to close the Web browser. Start Mozilla Firefox and test the performance by accessing a couple of your favorite Web sites.
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Tips & Warnings
Note that this is just one of the procedures you may need to boost the performance of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Other procedures include making space on your hard drive, and defragmenting and fixing errors on your hard drive file system.
