Been seeing a “stopped script” warning from my anti-virus. It identifies the stopped script, within Firefox, as being a “chrome” script. I suspect Google chrome is invading Firefox, tagging it in some fashion. It definitely slows down Firefox. Have had to command the script to stop, then reopen the Firefox browser. Very annoying. Perhaps 3.5.7 version stops this.
FF is a buggy piece of crap that gets worse with every release. It leaks memory like a cheap hose leaks water and just loves to consume your whole cpu if given half a chance.
That being said, it’s still my primary browser because of the incredible productivity addons made for it.
Helpful hints:
1. Look at all of the extensions and addons and disable all that you don’t need, which is most of them. You’ll notice a bunch that were installed behind your back by every crapola program every installed on your computer.
2. After long usage times, exit FF and start fresh, as FF will grow infinitely large in size as well as accumulating other problems from long term usage.
3. Make sure you have the latest adobe flash reader for FF installed.
4. Flashblock and “adblock plus” help too.
Try safari.
1) Who is your Internet Service Provider?
2) Are you using the Domain Name Server address provided by the ISP?
3) Are you running a router that is directly connected to your broadband modem, if you have broadband?
Since I recently installed a router in my system (a router provided by EarthLink and is directly connected to ADSL modem), I configured my computer to look automatically for the IP and DNS address automatically, since the DNS server address is configured on the router itself.
The fix is easy, go back to explorer 8.0.
I find when everything freezes, it's usually a security program that causes it when it's updating.
A fresh reinstall of the program may help also.
I found out about the Skype thing the hard way. Removed it, and it runs better.
However, yes, this version of FF seems to hang. They fixed the memory holes, but seem to have created a CPU Util monster.
Firefox 3.6 RC2 is now available and it has largely resolved those annoying seconds of wait while going to new sites.
Does this happen in IE or other browsers? I had that problem regularly, and did a registry tweak, but yet the problem seems to have been with my Internet connection or the DNS Client. Make sure that is turned on. Go to Start>Run, type services.msc and hit OK. R. click on DNS Client, choose Properties and choose Startup type as Automatic and hit OK. Then hit Start below that, and try browsing.
If that fails to help try the advice on a new profile.
But Firefox with the TabMixPlus ext. is far far better than Chrome for power users. The latter has no way to make multiple rows of tabs, r charge their size, or make them different colors, etc.
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