BillGio
2011-03-08, 16:48
I use both IE8 and Firefox on my 2GHz 4M WinXP laptop. I have Spybot installed on this laptop and also on all family WinXP computers. All SW & OS is updated weekly.
For the past year using Firefox, as my browsing session goes on, as a browwse more pages Firefox gets slower and slower, uses more and more RAM, and CPU usage creeps up to 45%. Eventually, Firefox stubbornly locks up and has to be killed from Process Explorer and re-started. This happens when antivirus is disabled, and also on a lab computer that has Spybot and no antivirus.
Two weeks ago, as an experiment, I right-clicked the Spybot icon in taskbar and UNchecked "Resident Protection".
WHOOWEE!!! :eek:
Both Firefox and are incredibly faster! The Firefox problems are gone. Browsing files with Windows Explorer is as fast as lightening.
I'm a huge fan of Spybot and years ago gave a donation, but this is a significant performance issue with Spybot Resident
For the past year using Firefox, as my browsing session goes on, as a browwse more pages Firefox gets slower and slower, uses more and more RAM, and CPU usage creeps up to 45%. Eventually, Firefox stubbornly locks up and has to be killed from Process Explorer and re-started. This happens when antivirus is disabled, and also on a lab computer that has Spybot and no antivirus.
Two weeks ago, as an experiment, I right-clicked the Spybot icon in taskbar and UNchecked "Resident Protection".
WHOOWEE!!! :eek:
Both Firefox and are incredibly faster! The Firefox problems are gone. Browsing files with Windows Explorer is as fast as lightening.
I'm a huge fan of Spybot and years ago gave a donation, but this is a significant performance issue with Spybot Resident