Fire Fox Problem

I am having a strange problem with fire fox. For some reason any add or box on the side of a web page shakes. They move back and forth. It is incredibly annoying. It also seems to take up a huge amount of resourcees. I have tried reinstalling and that did not solve the problem. Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks,
Adam

 

You could make them go away via the AdBlock add-on.

 

Adblock is the single most useful add on for Firefox. Set it up, and enjoy never involuntarily seeing an ad again.

 

I have no idea why those adds or boxes on side of the screen are shaking, but as to the high resource usage. Firefox AFAIK has a pretty bad memory leak problem, it really shows up if you use any kind of java script websites, sometimes after being on a website that had a javascript applet in it firefox is using over 100mb or ram .The only way to release the memory is to close firefox and start it again. This has been going on for years now, I have tried many supposed "fixes" but nothing seems to sort the problem out. Hopefully the mozilla programmers might get the problem fixed in firefox version 3 but we will have to see.

 

I will look into the the adblock thing but that will only do so much because its not just adds. For example if I try and use the search box it will shake. The adds are just the most noticeable. As for the memory leak. I know its there and its kind of annoying but I have 2 gigs of memory so it not a big deal most of the time.

Thanks,
Adam

 

Sounds like spyware, then. I'd sweep your computer, uninstall Firefox, sweep again, reboot, sweep once more, and try to reinstall. If all that doesn't work, I'd save my data, cut my losses, and wipe the OS.

 

... That's way too drastic for a small problem like this. Does not sound like spyware to me either.

Try running Firefox safe mode (there should be a shortcut to it in the start menu somewhere, labeled Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)), and see if it still does it like that.
If you don't have a shortcut to firefox safe mode, make a new shortcut to firefox, then right-click on it > properties, shortcut tab, then add -safe-mode to the end of the path in the target box. So in the target box should read something like
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode


If the problem is gone when the browser is in safe mode, it's gotta be something with an extension or one of the config files or something.

 

add something to ur bookmarks??

cheers ...

 

I know I read about this awhile back on the Mozilla forums. I'm not 100% sure, but I think somebody did say it was an extension that caused it. I would do a search on their forum and see if you can find it.

 

Thanks for the tip. I am scanning for spyware rite now but I have tried this before and it did not help. I give your tips a shot and check out the fire fox forum.

Thanks,
Adam

 

I have never experienced this, and I have been running Firefox for years on several machines.

However, a Google search on firefox shaking screen does bring up several hits, so others must have seen this as well.

 

Alright thanks guys. The problem has been fixed. I followed the directions in this link.
http://www.wikihow.com/Eliminate-Screen-Shake-When-Using-Firefox-Browser-for-Windows

Adam

 

I had the same problem, I switched back to the default firefox theme and it solved the problem. The theme I was using when this problem was happening was: 'blue ice 2'

 

Video content in the browser causes high memory usage for me. But I wouldn't know about ads, because I have them blocked!