Firefox 2.0.0.6 freezes for several seconds

I've been having problems with my firefox browser lately. Whenever I tried to browse using firefox, it always freezes for 5-10 seconds which is really annoying. I haven't had this problem for 3 months I installed the 2.0.0.6, but about two days ago I realized about this problem. I did not install any extensions to it. How do I solve this problem? I tried to google, but did not find any specific answers.

 

Have you installed any of the following in the last two days?

- Windows updates
- New software
- Updates for any software and/or Firefox extensions

Or, in general, changed any settings?

It seems like a software conflict...

Matt

 

I did not have any updates on firefox extensions. however I forgot what software I have been installing in the past few days

 

I haven't installed Firefox yet... if your computer can run IE7 smoothly, then I haven't felt the need for firefox. I like IE's text smoothing feature and the only thing missing from my firefox is the EXIF viewer.

 

Did you clear your download cache?

Ctrl + J. Clean Up.

 

Well the thing is that I actually do love firefox! I don't want to change to any other browser. I would like to fix this issue.

I have checked the firefox web page, and on their forum they post some kind of ways to fix this problem, however I still cant

 

Not a problem. Windows keeps track of these things.

1) Press Win+R.
2) Enter 'perfmon' and click 'Ok.'
3) Click 'Reliability Monitor' on the left.
This shows a line graph of your system's estimated health. Each dot represents a day.
4) Click on the second-to-last dot.
This dot represents yesterday.
5) Now, you'll notice, that below the line graph is a list of installed and uninstalled applications and updates. Let me know what is listed here.

Repeat steps 4-5 for today and maybe for the day before yesterday.

Matt

 

I can't find the reliability monitor on the left

 

Ah, I forgot to ask. Are you using Windows Vista? This is only available in Vista. If your are, you should see something like this:



I'm talking about this:



Matt

 

Wow. Thought I was the only one with this problem. I start up Firefox and it briefly freezes for about 7-10 seconds.

 

Are those of you with Firefox freezing issues all running 1GB or less of memory, perhaps?

 

Nope. I have 4GB RAM and get the freezes with Firefox, IE7 and Opera 9.5 alpha.

So it's Vista, right?

 

Probably not Vista, per se, rather a subcomponent/feature, some driver incompatibility, or some AntiVirus, AntiSpyWare, or FireWall.

 

i had this problem in XP, and Vista. IMHO I think it is due to Firefox using lots of RAM. On my Sony Vaio, it takes about 10-15 seconds to startup, and if you look in task manager it uses around 50-75 MB's of RAM. Theres a "setting" you can change in Firefox config.

I've done this, and it now it loads much faster
here are the steps

1. open firefox and in the address bar type "about:config" w/0 the "
2. in the filter type in cache
3. right click on "browser.cache.memory.capacity" and modify. then change the value to 15000.
4. do the same for "browser.cache.disk.capacity"

with these steps, my firefox still uses about 40 MB's of RAM, but it is much less than the original 75+ MB's. And it loads up in about 3-4 seconds =D.

hope this helps

 

I ran Firefox in XP and now in Vista and have not seen this issue.

Answers to all things Mozilla, including Firefox, HERE.

 

I think it depends on your system

But then again, my lappy's are old.

 

RAM is usually quite fast access. An undersized paging file will slow down a system, too. In any case, tuning options are there for a reason; if they help your system, use them!

 

yes RAM is, but the RAM that came with my 3 year old Sony is very slow compared to newer models.

 

I know what you mean. I get a new laptop about every 3 or 4 years and the newer one is always significantly faster than the one it replaced. Infinitely faster than the ones that died!

 

Try cleaning your download history.(Tools -> Downloads -> Clean Up)

 

I don't run Antivirus so it's not antivirus. I use Microsoft Defender for the rest. So no, it's not one of those.

If you go around a lot of forums for applications, you will see a whole lot of people have this sort of problem with browsers.

If you watch in the resource monitor, what happens is that the disk gets pegged to maximum activity but zero throughput. The hard drive light is not lit. No requests are visible as active in the resource monitor. So I think it is some sort of problem where the disk access gets confused by something related to network traffic (which is why browsers seem to tickle this bug). It can freeze for a few seconds, or a long long time - in which case all your applications will eventually freeze, then the desktop, then the resource monitor and the task manager.

I haven't had it occur yet when no network was active, but on the other hand I spend almost all my time with one or another network connection.

I think it's pervasive enough that it's for Vista to fix.

 

That almost sounds lower level than the OS, perhaps interrupt-level in the BIOS, even.

 

try this method and plz let me knw if this works:

1. Press the " Win Key+R'
2. Type " %temp%" press enter
3. Delete All the files in tht folder
4. Press the " Win Key+R'
5. Type " prefetch" press enter
6. Delete All the files in tht folder(Except the Ready Boot
7. Increse The Virtual Memory Of the System(If u are using vista the initial shd be:4084 and the Max: 8048 and if u are XPthen initial: 3048 and the Max: 5048


Please Let Me Know If This Works

 

It's not that. The freeze can occur with a clean download history. Or even a clean install of Firefox. Or Opera.

 

Well I'm trying it but not the increase VM because that would be a decrease. I have 4GB RAM and Vista already has more VM than 4084 allocated.

I hardly page applications though, that's why I have the 4GB RAM.

 

Then the title of this post is misleading and inaccurate.

 

Well yeah, but a lot of people who are experiencing these freezes tend to blame them on their browser. I've seen similar freeze complaints against Firefox and Opera, and I've had them with both, and I've also had them with IE7.

And by the way, clearing the temporary and prefetch files out had no effect. I just came back from a freeze that forced a reboot.

 

firefox brings more security customizableness less popups

 

Sometimes, whenever I boot up, Firefox.exe is already started and I can not open it, forcing me to restart. I really hope this is a browser problem as I have not had this problem in the past until the last couple of months.

 

How could a program already running at boot be that program's problem??? Could it have become self-actualized???

 

I had Firefox freezes. it disappeared when I ticked of 'remember download history'.

 

Somehow it got added to the StartUp menu?

 

Still, not the program's problem.

 

Unless it can add itself. I don't know that Firefox does that but it's not unheard of.

 

No, Firefox does not "Add itself to the startup menu".

I'm done with this thread.

 

It's OK that you're done you don't seem to actually know what is going on with Firefox. I mean, is wikipedia that far out of your way?

 

Firefox Preloader is a non-Mozilla application. It's not associated with or packaged with Firefox. Therefore, AKAJohnDoe is technically correct, it is not Firefox's "fault."

Matt

 

DAMN. THats whats causing it then.

Anyone know how to fix this without disabling superfetch?

 

I'm not worried in the slightest about fault. The question is what is going on with the guy's system when he finds Firefox already running when he starts up.