Months ago I complained, “in the process of opening a page, Firefox just kinda quits. It’s like it stops to think and forgets to start again.” In the mean time I have disabled add-ons or uninstalled them to no avail. Plus I have numerous other browsers to considerable avail. And just after I switched default browsers this weekend, I realized how to fix Firefox.
Way back in the day when I first got Firefox and read all the tips about how to customize it, I followed the instructions for speeding it up by changing the connections and pipelining settings. Well guess what, they were all still set to my custom levels. It turns out that some servers really don’t like those settings. So after quickly returning those values to the default, I am good to go.
