Firefox 4 SLOWWWWWW printing

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:51 pm

Lot's of people bitching about this but no official response. It used to take 20 seconds to print my bank statement, now it takes 5 minutes.

I'm sitting here printing a CNet article and it's printing one page every minute or more. It's horrible.

I went back to 3.6 until they solve this. Just uninstall 4.0 and install 3.6. Don't allow it to delete your profile when prompted on the uninstall.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:45 am

I've got 4.0 on one PC here and I'm not seeing any improvements over 3.6 so I'm in no rush to "upgrade" FF on my other PCs yet. Sad too because it use to be where FF was so superior over IE.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:36 am

Oh I found 4.0 to be a snappier browser, and I also like the cleaner look, but the slow printing is unacceptable. It's something to do with the size of the temp print files it creates. They're HUGE.

I'm leaving it on my laptops for now since I rarely print from them.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:48 am

I have been having this problem at home with saving pictures. my laptop does not do it but my home PC is horrible. When you save a picture the whole process takes like a minuet and it causes the WHOLE machine to lock up for a few seconds. I figured upgrading to 4.0 would fix this but it still does it. Its when it goes to do the virus check it get all slow and unresponsive. When it finishes after locking up a few times it saves just fine and everything continues to run just fine.

I have tried deleting the download history file from app data whatever and it keeps doing it. Other then that one gleaming problem everything else is ok.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:43 pm

3.6 and 4.0 do it? Something's wrong with your profile. I save pictures all the time - even on my underpowered laptop. No problems.

90% of the time something like this is caused by a misbehaved Addon so you could try disabling them all and see if it fixes it, then turning on each one one by one. Do the same with the plugins.

You could also backup the whole Firefox profile with Mozbackup and then nuke it (If you Google around you can find out how to delete your whole profile). See if that fixes it. Then restore just what you need with Mozbackup (it lets you restore individual items).

Hope this helps...

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 12:29 am

Ha. Got it on the first one. It was the adobe acrobat one doing it. strange.Whatever, its fixed now. Thanks.