title: Firefox Webdriver is extremely slow
body: <p>We use the selenium webdriver dlls set up to run my automation suite. I encounter this problem when runnning tests in Firefox only. The tests in Firefox run very slow , taking 3-4 minutes to load pages, However, when I run the same test on the same machine using Firefox browser manually I don't encounter this slowness. At times while running automation on Firefox, we also get "Connection was reset" page. Also, the same tests run fine in Chrome and IE.</p>
  
  <p>We use the following environment:</p>
  
  <p>Firefox version 28, 37 (proxy is set to use system settings)</p>
  
  <p>Webdriver (dlls) version 2.45</p>
  
  <p>Windows 7 </p>
  
  <p>Earlier we used to run the same set up in Windows XP using Firefox version 14,16, and Webdriver version 2.37, we didn't experience this issue.</p>
  
  <p>We invoke Firefox using the following code :</p>
  
  <pre><code>Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
  proxy.Kind = ProxyKind.System;
  FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(); 
  profile.SetProxyPreferences(proxy);
  
  RemoteWebDriver dr = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxBinary(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"), profile, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120));
  
  dr.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3));
  
  dr.Manage().Window.Maximize();
  
  dr.Manage().Cookies.DeleteAllCookies();
  
  dr.Navigate().GoToUrl(WebSiteUrl);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>remaining tests steps......</p>
  
  <p>Please can someone help me resolve this issue.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>