Site slow in Firefox and IE, super fast in Safari and Chrome

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Anyone ever experience anything like this? Takes 45 seconds to load in Firefox and IE but 2 seconds in Safari and Chrome. Haven't really changed anything so having a hell of a time trying to figure out what the problem is. Its a client's site, custom php site. Don't mind providing the url if you think you can help me out.

Any help would be appreciated.
 


First test site load time with Pingdom and Google speed test:

Code: 
http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

Code: 
https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/

Then look for scripts, details, etc. to figure out what loading so slow.
 
Yes I had experience this suotation chrome and safari loads sites much faster in comparision to firefox and explorer.
 
Try disabling all add on extensions. You can then turn them back one at a time until you find which is causing the issue. This worked for me.
 
Disable JavaScript on both IE and FF, open your site. Then enable it and check speed difference.
If you find a big difference debug and optimize your site JavaScript code. jQuery, for example, can have time differences if the code is executed on different browsers.
 
Flash4Ever said:
Disable JavaScript on both IE and FF, open your site. Then enable it and check speed difference.
If you find a big difference debug and optimize your site JavaScript code. jQuery, for example, can have time differences if the code is executed on different browsers.
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This.

Chrome and Safari have faster javascript interpreters than IE or FF.
That would explain the difference.
 
Make sure no errors are thrown as well. Sometimes different browsers will get different errors. I agree with vectevs too pingdom tools will show if there is any server error and whats loading when.
 
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