Very slow Firefox on Windows 7

I was a Mac with Firefox user and has been exceptionally good. I moved to a Windows 7 machine and loaded Firefox to continue my happiness with Firefox. I made Firefox my default.

Unfortunately, I find the current Firefox for Windows 7 to create problems. Actual program start-up is very well. It is fine to make a favorite. That's when I'm clicking on the links on the pages I visit I begin to stall on.

If I click on a link on a web page, I see the link being attempted, but it's just the blue circle goes round and round without resolution.

Curiously, I've learned to simply click in the HTTP bar behind the attempt link and press the ENTER key to solve. It baffles me why this works, but clicking on the link even in the web page gets me nowhere. If I have a workaround, but it's not how Firefox should work, correct?

I have disabled hardware acceleration. Who was previously asked by myself, because my first days with Firefox was originally freezes and real accidents. With that the disabled I am not crashing any longer.

I also tried to reset Firefox with the same results. I have that Ghostery as an add-on (as I did on my Mac version).

I am not savvy enough to understand the difference between the click versus the ENTER key.  Why does a click stall me out but why does a punch of the ENTER key to the same web page work?

Try temporarily disabling the Ghostery and see if this problem has disappeared.

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