Bug in FF3

Ok, I'm finally consistently getting a bug with FF3, it temporarily goes frozen, you can't do anything, the screen (vista) becomes a light transparent white and after a few seconds, it comes back to normal. What is going on?

PS: I used to get this in IE but it would never come back, it would actually just pop up an option box saying; application not responding, close it, or re-open it.

 

monkeyMod..

did you check out the error console under "Tools"? to see what the error/problem may have been?

it's def freezing on you, but sounds like it recovers...

does it operate ok after that?

 

Hey Wirelessman,
The light transparent white on opened window occurs when vista view an process as "Unresponsive"; it can happen to any opened window/application. As you mentioned in your post, that Internet Explorer experiences the same issue; thus, I assumed the problem is not isolated to just FireFox. I am guessing that something is taking up all the CPU power in the background, causing applications in the front to "lag" out. To makes sure, can you please check your CPU usage, next time the same issue occurs?

 

Does it occur when u open a specific site or some site which has large embedded videos, etc.??

 

Ok, I will check the CPU usage next time, thanks.

Nope, I don't have big applications running, and I don't game.

 

I experienced the bug again and looked at the CPU usage and it was very low, in the 3-6%. Which makes sense because everything was frozen.

 

This happens for me with IE 7. When I open a new window, it opens up transparent first, freezes, and then the actual window opens. May be it's a bug in Vista

 

is it a beta version..??

 

Beta?? I have Vista business SP1. Which beta are you talking about?

 

they probably meant FF3 beta, monkeyMod

Some people are still running it and haven't upgraded to Final yet!!

It sounds like some type browser problem, since it happens to you in both browsers ...

have you tried Opera

 

which version of FF3 are u running..?? have you added any addons in it..??

 

The latest one, version 3.

 

have you tried clearing up the cache and cleaning/defragging the registry, it could be a program conflict..!! have you tried finding the bug report..?? and does your hdd kinda work furiously..?? I ve been having the same problem lately..!!

 

In Firefox, click Edit->Preferences. In the Security section, uncheck the two boxes for attack site and forgery warnings. Close Firefox. Open your file browser to ~/.mozilla/firefox/[profile], where [profile] will be a short random string of characters. Delete any files with names starting with urlclassifier. This workaround will disable Firefox’s warnings for phishing and malicious websites.

Also try clearing the cache by ctrl+shift+del as the problem maybe caused by Firefox’s urlclassifier database, which can get very large. Because the cache for this database is too small....!!

Also try disabling the SwitchProxy Tool....

 

have you run ccleaner??

do you use a program like "windows washer" by webroot to clear your cache, temp inter files, etc...??

They could be messing w/ you...

 

I did a deep ccleaner let's see if this correct the issue.

 

zfactor brought the news about the new update for Windows Vista SP1 (KB952709), and I downloaded and I don't seem to have the issue anymore, I'm healed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

great, which update is that monkeyMod?

it may have installed auto on my system....

happy days are here again

 

Well, it didn't last very long and the problem returned.

Some time back I was playing with Network Magic and later I removed it from the start up menu, but it seemed that although it wasn't active, there would still some of its services running in the background, so I got rid of them too and now the problem is really gone, FF doesn't freezes anymore.

 

i dislike network magic

it is very difficult to remove and parts of it will still be running in the background.

i had to manually remove the drivers to get rid of it a few years back

 

As described, this is not specifically a Firefox problem, rather, it is systemic. My hunch is that it is some sort of process running in the background, using the network. If you disconnect from the network it should break free in less than a minute. You might also be able to match up what it is and where it is going by comparing the process IDs from the output of two commands. Save this as a .bat or .cmd file and run in in a command prompt window. You may need to increase the buffer of your command prompt windows in order to be able to scroll through the output.

@echo off

tasklist /svc

echo.

netstat -a -o -f | find /V "%COMPUTERNAME%:" | find /V "*:*" | find /V "Active Connections"

echo.
echo *** End of List ***
echo.