Firefox freezing when a download starts

Ok, I don't know what's going on with the forum, but it seems to have swallowed my post. Anyways:

When I download a file to a network drive, Firefox completely freezes - even Flash videos pause - for a second or 2 during what I presume is the time it takes to establish a connection to the network drive. Is there any setting or about:config entry that can fix this?

 

Which version of FF do you have and what O/S are you using? What kinda file are you downloading? How are your network drives setup?

 

Every version of Firefox since at least 3.6.x has had this issue. This is on Windows 7.

This happens with any file, from tiny text files to gigantic zip files and videos.

The network drives are set up via "Map network drive" in (My) Computer.

 

Would recommend just using another browser to completely ignore the issue and not have to deal with it

 

What happen when you try to save the file on to your local disk drive? Does FF still freezes or does it act normally?

 

Unfortunately, Chrome is not supported by (and does not work with) a web application I use that dates back to like 2006. There's newer versions out there which do support Chrome, but for whatever reason the provider refuses to upgrade.

Other browsers are out of the question because I can't live without extensions.

It acts normally. The issue is limited to network drives.

 

I fail to see how this is a FF issue and it's beginning to sound more like a hardware communication or connection problem????

 

It almost certainly is, as I hinted to in my first post. Firefox's only contribution to the problem is it allows the entire UI to lock up, and that is the only thing I wish to fix.

I don't expect Firefox to make network connection establishment go any faster, but I do expect it to handle connection delays in a more graceful manner than just completely freezing. This is a web browser, not some random program with networking support thoughtlessly tacked on in the online help feature.

 

You said

You mentioned there was some kinda hardware issues connecting to FireFox and not know what kinda network drive and how it is connected doesn't give much to know what is going on. This would indicate hardware problems being recognize on the network. The simple fix would be download to the computer main hard hard drive or SSD or the root computer and if it does this with no lags then that would mean the connection between the computer and network drive is using a connection that is to slow to handle the data transfer causing the lag and lockup or slow down leading to lockup.