Chrome is good, safari is fast and internet explorer sucks, but if you need the best of all worlds, then don’t think beyond firefox. I lately felt that firefox too is becoming a bit buggy and consumes lot of system memory and is slowing me down. Later I learned how to tweak firefox and literally fire it up.

The major reason for firefox slowing down is the amount of plugins add ons and toolbars that we use followed by the extensions and plugins. The major reason for the success of firefox is, it is 100% open source and we can keep improving it. We can download many plugins developed by individual developers to meet our specific requirements. There are thousands of such plugins, but if you keep many plugins, then it can slow firefox down. In this post let us see the major reasons for slowing down of firefox, high memory usage, firefox crashing frequently and firefox not responding (lot of issues with vista OS).

Here are the 8 steps that you need to speed up your firefox