I had a problem with web pages loading - it would start off quickly then subsequent parts took ages and scripts on the pages kept stalling It happened with Firefox and IE11 Speed tests were fine I tried a change of gateway and that didn't help I then tried Waterfox and every time I tried to open it Firefox opened instead So I Googled and it appears that you can't have Waterfox and Firefox running at the same time - but Firefox wasn't apparently running So did the usual 3 fingered salute and opened Task Manager - Yup - process Firefox.exe*32 was running so I closed it down and all the problems went away So what is the reason for it not the fact that there was a process running without the application but killing web page access speeds in both Firefox and IE11
One of those instances where the "classic" advice would have worked, eh?
Could it be that the runaway Firefox process was just occupying too much of the processor/memory capacity and anything you tried to do, Internet-related or otherwise, would have run badly?
That would have been my final resort but I was more interested in finding out what caused it It certainly wasn't hitting CPU or Memory limits as all other programs ran properly Taking your thought - I wonder if somewhere along the line internet access uses a common dll
