REALLY slow computer, Firefox
My computer slowed to a crawl to the point where it was taking 45 seconds just to open Preview application. It started with Firefox today where YouTube was taking 10 seconds to even load up my homepage. Then opening videos was really slow, etc. I opened ActivityMonitor and found the usual QuickLook Helper using a ton of resources. After I quit that, the slowness continued and I haven't had my computer act this retarted...ever.
I Verified my external drives, repaired permissions with only this action taken:
Group differs on "Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist"; should be 80, group is 0.
Repaired "Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf/plist"
This is the ONLY thing that pops up when I repair permissions, what does it mean?
Also, when I boot up and open Activity Monitor, I have 90 processes working. Is that a normal amout or is it a little high? I'm not one that has 15 toolbar applications running when I start up, just a date/time one.
Thanks for any insight as to what could be slowing my computer to a crawl. Oh, btw, when I opened Safari and quit Firefox, my webpages opened normally.
2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 1 Tb of storage