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I had this very same prob­lem with my brand new Microsoft Vista X64 machine. At first I though it was the fact that I was using the newest ver­sion of Fire­fox. But after a bit of research we came to the con­clu­sion that it wasn’t actu­ally the browser caus­ing the sys­tem lag, it was the audio codec. Most peo­ple are hav­ing this issue with Sig­ma­tel HD Audio Codec. In my case it was Real­tek HD Audio. Luck­ily for every­one read­ing this, the fix is quite simple.

So here’s how to fix this annoyance.

1) Right click on the vol­ume icon in your sys­tem tray, and choose “Play­back Devices”. If you don’t have a vol­ume icon, go to your con­trol panel, and choose “Sound”.

2)In the “Play­back tab” click on one of the devices, and click “Prop­er­ties” in the lower right cor­ner of the window.

3)Go to the tab labeled “Enhance­ments”. Put a check mark in the box labeled “Dis­able all enhance­ments”. It doesn’t mat­ter if there’s no check marks in any other boxes, its still in use. Now hit Apply, and then Ok. You can do this for each of the devices in the “Play­back tab”, there’s typ­i­cally three. And that’s it, now just restart your com­puter and it should be smooth sail­ing from here on out.

Let us know if this worked for you, or let us know if it didn’t. Thanks for stop­ping by.