Posted on 02/09/2010 1:05:19 PM PST by ProudFossil
I recently switched from IE6 to Firefox and now have a glitch which is rather annoying. I enter a reply message on a thread and click preview. I then get an error message stating FireFox could not find the link I was connecting to (there is no link in the message) or I was not logged on. I back arrow to the screen with the message entry and click preview again. This time it works and I am able to post the message.
Any suggestions or hints on how to correct this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Mike
I’m using Firefox 3.5.7 and haven’t experienced that problem. I will say however, firefox isn’t as clean as it was a year or so ago. I’m using Chrome on my netbook, and really like it for the most part, all except the way it manages bookmarks, but, I could and am, getting used to it.
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Firefox keeps running after exit and really slows down your machine.
I listen to talk radio over the net a lot but all processes do not stop and they keep running and just suck up memory.
Help!!!
Based on your description it sounds less like a Firefox issue and more something to do with your interaction with the Free Republic software. You may have just hit the button at a bad time for the servers a couple times. It happens.
I’ve used firefox almost exclusively with Free Republic and have not had the problems you described, and hitting the BACK button after submitting a post will necessarily require firefox to repost data. That is completely normal for web (HTTP) sessions.
I don’t know what to tell you. I run 10 tabs with a program running in each of them, it takes about 3 seconds to open a new web site in a tab.
Take care.
The old curmudgeon,
Blackie
When I have a problem with Firefox,which is almost never,I uninstall and reinstall and it has always taken care of the problem.
Get rid of Firefox...”
I have been using IE8 w/o any problems here or elsewhere.
I use NoScript and I don't allow any scripts to be loaded from any Freerepublic pages, and all works fine.
I have recently experienced quite a few not found errors and some unexpected responses from the FR comment posting & preview commands (and actually spellcheck too), but I think they all relate to issues at the FR servers themselves. Several people have noted it seems to be users on the West coast who are affected most often.
I most often use FF3.5.6 under Linux but it does all the same things under IE8.
A pretty well known issue with Firefox. A lot of people say it is memory leakage but I think it is more correctly described as fragmentation, and for whatever reason after a lot of running time you end up with memory split into too small of pieces to be useful so you're just spooling in and out of swap space. It does seem to be a lot worse when playing a lot of streaming media and I think a lot of the trouble there comes from Flash. Whatever the root cause, the Mozilla people claim it's not their fault - and indeed, I have the same problems with Chrome and to a lesser extent with IE (which, you may recall, is mostly preloaded as part of your core OS).
Quick fix I have found is to periodically do a hibernate/resume cycle. When you do that your running applications are moved (as much as possible) to contiguous memory and when you reload you have more usable working space. That works for me in Windows and Linux.
I will look into the hibernate/resume option.
I read they blame Zonealarm which I use. I am tempted to uninstall it, and see if their is any difference. Also, refresh my memory, if you uninstall Firefox are all your add-ons and bookmarks stored in your profile so you do not have to loose everything?
Thanks in advance.....
Lately I have been using Microsoft Security Essentials (free), which provides anti virus, anti spyware, and firewall. I haven’t used Zone Alarm for years and FF still has the slowdown issue.
I use a portable version of Firefox in Windows and with that version the profile and add on info lives with the app itself. I think in the standard version you can keep your profile info for a new install (at least by copying the profile folders then moving them back after reinstall) but chances are any settings that are causing adverse issues will be within your profile folders. And if you are changing versions with a reinstall you’ll probably want to do a clean install anyway.
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