I have a friend who has been intermittently having severe performance problems when trying to run Firefox in her Windows 10 machine, over approximately the past week.
The machine apparently recently updated itself to the latest version of Windows 10, and the Firefox shows that it is running 90.0.1.
I have not been able to observe the problems she describes, but she says that the machine often takes an extraordinarily long time (on the order of several minutes) to do simple operations in Firefox. Things like opening the browser in the first place, shutting it down, opening a new web site. I have looked at the machine twice via remote access using Teamviewer. I have not been able to reproduce the symptoms, and the machine seems to run fine when I look at it.
The machine is a Lenovo Ideapad 110-15ISK. The on-line specs for this machine indicate that it came with 4 GB of installed memory, but the Windows system properties page indicates 6 GB of installed memory. I did take a look at the list of autostart programs, and disabled most of them. But the machine seemed to be running fine at the time. I haven't had a chance to check back with her to see if she notices any difference in the problem.
Since both Windows and Firefox have both undergone updates recently, my immediate question is whether there are any known problems with this combination of Windows/Firefox. I have the latest version of Firefox on my own machine, with no significant issues, but I am not running it under Windows 10.
The machine apparently recently updated itself to the latest version of Windows 10, and the Firefox shows that it is running 90.0.1.
I have not been able to observe the problems she describes, but she says that the machine often takes an extraordinarily long time (on the order of several minutes) to do simple operations in Firefox. Things like opening the browser in the first place, shutting it down, opening a new web site. I have looked at the machine twice via remote access using Teamviewer. I have not been able to reproduce the symptoms, and the machine seems to run fine when I look at it.
The machine is a Lenovo Ideapad 110-15ISK. The on-line specs for this machine indicate that it came with 4 GB of installed memory, but the Windows system properties page indicates 6 GB of installed memory. I did take a look at the list of autostart programs, and disabled most of them. But the machine seemed to be running fine at the time. I haven't had a chance to check back with her to see if she notices any difference in the problem.
Since both Windows and Firefox have both undergone updates recently, my immediate question is whether there are any known problems with this combination of Windows/Firefox. I have the latest version of Firefox on my own machine, with no significant issues, but I am not running it under Windows 10.