Browser Support • Re: Pale Moon response speed under miserable ping times

Hello Scavengre, that was an odd situation. It does seem that something was going on with Pale Moon and it's processor usage. You also mentioned it wanting to run chkdsk. It is possible that Pale Moon may had a recovery session in mind but could not load it because of a bad sector or cluster on the drive.

However you mentioned it seemed to be OK for weeks. Something during this diagnosis triggered the chkdsk to be flagged. Do you normally reboot your computer every day or two or do you reboot say once a month? If you reboot infrequently you might want to add a reboot or two just for good measure every so often.

The part that had me thinking this is not network was the "right-click menu sluggishness" since that is local as MoonChild mentioned. The next time you have an similar issue go to Task Manager, look at the performance tab and see how much RAM is in use. Then click on the Processes tab and see what program is using a high CPU count and/or memory. With that information you can pursue finding out what may be happening.

Also, I would like to suggest that people should run a chkdsk (Scandisk or "Scan for Disk Errors") at least once a year, and especially after a power outage.

I am very happy you got your PC and Pale Moon operating properly again. It was a weird one.