Why Is Firefox So Slow Fix August 2018

You know when problems arise and you think to yourself, I really don't need this right now. That's what I've been feeling like with this Firefox running at a snail pace problem. Why is it so slow? Well, first I should say. Due to people using different operating systems, from Windows to Android, and with each individual have different software and programs running on their computers (and Smartphones) this fix will is not going to be a one size fits all. However, it did work for me, instantly. And now my Firefox is working really fast again.

What Fixed A Lethargic Firefox

For me it was just a simple case of disabling what has now come to be a real problem bit of software for me. That is Shockwave Flash. Once Adobe stop updating and the scripts in the software are outdated and lag behind, which is very common as Adobe seem to only release an update once or twice a year, it has the ability to slow browsers down to a snails pace. Images take ages to load, videos stall and take a long time to render, web pages stop responding etc. For some reason Shockwave Flash was putting a serious strain on my system by using up all the computer RAM and making everything become unstable. It's seriously annoying.

How To Disable Slowness

Go to the Add-ons page in Firefox, find Shockwave Flash and disable it completely. Restart your browser and that should be all that is needed. I also disabled the OpenH264 Video Codec 1.6 by Cisco Systems for good measure, and now everything is working smoothly again. This fix may not work for everyone, but its definitely worth a go if you have Shockwave Flash installed in your Firefox Add-ons. Is there an update out for Flash, I don't know, but I'm so annoyed with it, that I'll probably never enable it again. It's not like its desperately needed anyway. Hope this helped you out and you get what feels like a turbo boosted Firefox again like I'm experiencing right now. Until the next time amigo.

Get A Working Dark Minima Blogger Theme

I love using the older classic basic Blogger templates. Have you tried to find an old school 2 column dark / black Minima Blogspot theme lately. I have. What an annoying experience. Basically all of them are filled with errors. And some of the sites are just listing an image of the theme itself with no download option. One guy even has his little script set up on his Blogspot blog to "Please disable Adblock to continue". Wow, really mate. On a Blogspot! Now don't get me wrong, I could remove the errors if I had the patience, but why bother when there's a much quicker, less stressful fix to this situation.

How to get a fresh Black Minima Template

All you have to do is download the 2 column white version of Minima. You can download that here. Make sure you save it somewhere on your hard drive. We need to preserve the Minima theme, as its not as widespread, or as downloadable in as many places as I thought it would be.

Download, unzip the file and then install. If you install certain themes on Blogger, that are not part of their standard theme library, sometimes it won't let you edit anything in the templates "customise" editor.

Thankfully for us, Blogger does allow certain things to be changed when using the Minima theme, mostly just the colours and fonts. But that's all we need. So all you have to do is turn the theme black in the customiser and then change the rest of the colours and fonts as you see fit.

If you want to use some of the dull hex colours that were used on the original black Minima, here are some of the main ones. Background #000000 - Page Text #cccccc - Link colour #99aadd - Post Title #aadd99 - Sidebar Title #777777 - Visited Link #aa77aa. I believe the fonts are the same with both templates, so if you want the original fonts just don't change anything and that will be fine. So there you go, a fully functional Black Minima. One of the best and easiest themes to work with. Hope this helped you out. Until the next time amigo.