I jumped off the slow boat

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Speed, we need, we love, we desire - speed! No not the illegal stuff you find on the street corners!!!! That's not where this is going. I just solved a minor issue with speed and I hope it's a permanent solution! When I got this computer about a years ago it was fast....it seems like day by day it got slower. The last few weeks it's almost going back instead of forward it's so slow. I have done things like defrag, deleting history, getting rid of old folders, whatever I could think of and know how to do! Nothing....this moring it was taking a good 5 minutes to load a post on myLot. So, I ventured into new territory and did something I was afraid to do. I had a few 'add-ons' (I use Firefox) such as Ebates and Swagbucks plus two others. I deactivated Ebates and Swagbucks and holy cow - I've been projected into space fast and furious! My speed has increased considerably - why didn't I know it was add-ons causing slow speed? I wonder if it is a fluke and within an hour I will be back on that slow boat....I sure hope not!!! Photo is Pixabay