It's been a while since i noticed that problem : when i clicked a download link, my computer went unresponsive for quite a moment... Enough time to get a coffee break ;)
The solution is in fact very simple : it is because of the downloads history which becomes huge after months of downloading ! Just clean the download history and Firefox runs as fast as if it was freshly installed.
nono
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 13:22 — AnonymousThere's an alternative i learned about from the audio
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Tue, 07/27/2010 - 13:20 — AnonymousThis is in labatterie
It might work differently in other versions or operating systems.
nono
Tue, 07/27/2010 - 13:19 — AnonymousI discovered the solution a couple of days ago batterie and I'm blogging it so that others may find it if they do a search.
best regards
Mon, 07/19/2010 - 13:32 — AnonymousI had been getting very annoyed with my Firefox. Every time I downloaded a file, it took 30 seconds or so for the "Downloads" window to come up, during which time Firefox was unresponsive to keyboard and mouse inputs. I discovered the solution a couple of days ago, and I'm blogging it so that others may find it if they do a search.
The problem was that the file that stores the download history had gotten very big, and Firefox was pausing to parse that file into the display in the "Downloads" window. All I needed to do to fix it was to press the "Clean Up" button at the bottom of the "Downloads" window (available on the "Tools" menu).
There's an alternative i learned about from the audio tutorial found by search on mp3 . In Edit/Preferences..., on the "Download History" tab of the "Privacy" panel, there's a combo-box to select when to "Remove files from the Download Manager". It defaults to "Manually", which is what I like, but you can also select "Upon successful download" or "When Firefox exits".
This is in Firefox 1.5 on Linux. It might work differently in other versions or operating systems.
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Sat, 06/19/2010 - 00:44 — AnonymousQuran Player - قرآن كريم - mp3 - Lecteur de Coran
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THX Jide for your theme it's
Sat, 08/16/2008 - 20:43 — hillary (not verified)THX Jide for your theme it's great,
I have updated it from freshy 1. I don't know why but in the dashboard on the edit line where all the buttons are it has disappeared the "kitchen sink" with all its buttons : video, image, etc, insted there's is a new one "styles". Any one knows what may have happened? It was working fine up to now but now it has vanished.
Any idea THX
Thanks, I was getting really
Sat, 02/09/2008 - 17:55 — TomD (not verified)Thanks, I was getting really annoyed.
Having Firefox freeze on downloads was no fun
A simple fix speeds up firefox downloads so it's like new.
This Firefox download problem fix needs to be at the top of the list.
Thank you so much for posting
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 19:07 — Ankhorite (not verified)Thank you so much for posting the solution where Google could find it.
YAY! All better now!
Grrrrr, so simple. I had this
Thu, 07/26/2007 - 01:00 — Paul (not verified)Grrrrr, so simple. I had this problem lately and went back to IE... that's how desperate I was - all fixed now - many thanks!
Paul.
alert("bonjour");
Sat, 03/03/2007 - 00:50 — testeur (not verified)alert("bonjour");
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