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Aaaaaaaack! Firefox is beginning to drive me up the wall!
Me | Thurs, January 7, 2010 | DGHoodini

Posted on 01/07/2010 2:00:33 PM PST by DGHoodini

Is anyone else been having problems with Firefox freezing up on them? not shutting down? not responding?

I remember when I first started using Firefox, it ran rock solid. I happilynupdated to newer versions when they became availiable. But over the last handful of versions, i've found that it has been freezing up and not reponding, with an increasing frequency. And with each new vwersion, it's mostly bug and security fixes.. but I just loaded up thne newest version today, and in less than a hour, I found myself, one again, having to use the task manager to shut the non responding Firefox prg down.

Is anyone else expiriencing this?


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KEYWORDS: crashes; firefox; notresponding
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To: Smokeyblue
There is one thing you can do or try.

If you know how to access your advanced settings tab you can take a look at your virtual memory amount which is default to system managed size. You can manually increase the size to maximum if you have the hard drive space. This will take space away from your drive, but you should not have it more than 60% full in any case. At 80 % it can't even defrag. Just set the high limit to whatever the max is take the decision away from the OS. It may work faster, if not, then I suggest leaving it where it was if it was system managed. This adjustment can affect some drives negatively depending on speed and size.

61 posted on 01/07/2010 4:40:53 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: Smokeyblue

I’ve seen that symptom too, sounds like the same problem manifesting itself in different ways.

I just checked for updates, and found the latest version is 3.5.7 (I was on 3.5.6), and loaded it, and I can’t replicate the problem.

Maybe they finally fixed it.


62 posted on 01/07/2010 4:40:58 PM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: DGHoodini

I’ve had the problem. It downloads a revision and trys real hard to install but gets sidetracked. Reboot solves the problem


63 posted on 01/07/2010 4:43:21 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . What ever I do is what shall bean the production line than to operate the equipm)
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To: nutmeg

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64 posted on 01/07/2010 4:46:43 PM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: DGHoodini

Mine works like a charm. Sorry to hear you’re having a problem.


65 posted on 01/07/2010 4:59:42 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: DGHoodini

It’s always snappy out of the box, then little by little, it..........gets...................slow.

I’ve seen that with all the full featured Mozilla browsers. Their bare bones stuff like Chimera and Navigator were the best and fastest I’ve ever used.

Don’t know what happened to them.


66 posted on 01/07/2010 5:05:34 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Cold Heat

Thanks for the advise. I did do that when I was screwing around with the problem a couple of months ago. It didn’t change anything that I perceived.

I really should try to download the latest version and make sure all the old copies are gone. I’ve just been extremely lazy about the issue. : )


67 posted on 01/07/2010 5:13:21 PM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: Smokeyblue

“advice”


68 posted on 01/07/2010 5:14:07 PM PST by Smokeyblue
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To: moehoward; DGHoodini

Do you ever clean out the History files?


69 posted on 01/07/2010 5:16:33 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Rockingham

I’ve decided on a more first things first approach to isolate the problem. i’ve run a deep scan, then ran my registry/system fix software. And I DLed Safari. And I will run that to see if my problems continue to occuur, to know if the problem is indeed in Firefox. If the same problems do not occur, then i’ll know that the problem is with Firefox.

Then I’ll start with the checking add-ons, then deleting and DLing a new copy of FF...But i’’m pretty darnn sure my system is virus free.

So far, I’m not hatin Safari, but was a pain getting my top DLing and password protected sites inputted, till I figured out how to get yto my FF bookmarks.

I’ll put itt through it’s paces in the next 24 hrs and see what’s what, as most times when it froze up, I was doing some varied DLing and streaming.


70 posted on 01/07/2010 5:17:57 PM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: y6162
I only have 256 mgs

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71 posted on 01/07/2010 5:25:50 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: oh8eleven

Safari on Windoze is AWESOME!


72 posted on 01/07/2010 5:27:00 PM PST by Mister Muggles (.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

At least once a week. but that wouldn’t cause the kinds of freeze ups i’m expiriencing. now perhaps an overstuffed Temp file, but I’ve only got two files in itm, and they only amount to less than 3 mbs. That’s another thing that displeased me about FF recently. A few revs ago, they took out the easy iointerface that allowed a user to empty out the Temp files along with history and cookies in one litlle applet. I lijked that applet.


73 posted on 01/07/2010 5:39:44 PM PST by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: TomGuy

I have a lot of tabs open (I’m hard on computers) but when it consumes a Gig of memory, I shut it down.


74 posted on 01/07/2010 5:54:35 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: DGHoodini

I’ve been running version 2.0.15 for a long time and will not upgrade. Runs like a top.


75 posted on 01/07/2010 5:55:20 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.)
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To: TomGuy
I changed to avast! and the problem went away.

Does avast take up less space on computer than AVG. Loved AVG until I tried version 8. Slowed things down a lot. Installed Norton.,but do not want to renew it. Looking for a free system.

76 posted on 01/07/2010 6:16:03 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Irish Eyes

The full download of Avast is about 41 MB.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html


77 posted on 01/07/2010 6:41:09 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Fresh Wind

Do you reboot the system?


78 posted on 01/07/2010 7:36:41 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: TomGuy

Thanks


79 posted on 01/07/2010 7:37:34 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: truthandlife
They are fixing to lose me.

To what?

80 posted on 01/07/2010 7:38:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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