Firefox hanging?

I've had this issue for a while now, and I just wanted to know if others experience the same. I don't think anything is malfunctioning, but it sure would be nice if I could resolve this somehow. Just curious if this is indicative of some common problem I am unaware of.

While using firefox, I can accumulate around 5-10 separate windows with at least that many tabs in each. At random times while browsing, firefox will not respond for a few seconds, and the mouse turns into that spinning circle. If I click the mouse, firefox screen will fade and 'Not Responding' will appear in the title bar. Then a few seconds later, everything will go back to normal and I can browse just fine, all windows and tabs still intact. This only lasts a few seconds, but it does seem to occur one or two times an hour, and usually there no other programs running.

I would think these system specs are more than adequate:
Lenovo W500
W7 x64 (clean install)
2.8GHz C2D
Intel SSD
4gb ram

 

Have you updated Firefox?

 

I think it's the hardware acceleration. Happens to me too.

 

Everything is updated.
Can anything be done about this hardware acceleration?

 

It is an annoyance.

 

It happens to me as well, even on my freshly installed W7, even on SSD. I have a few critical add-ons that make jumping ship difficult. Oh also, very often, I can't see my Ebay summary page, or the ebay search would not show the results. Another annoyance, Flash player video would at times freeze or jump frame (audio would work fine) when I'm doing something else on another FF window. I'm going to hold out for FF4 and if it's still a problem, I'm going to look into Chrome.

 

Some thought:
Many ads are flash based. Perhaps it's too much, especially if you have many tabs open.

One of my favourite add-ons for Firefox is Flashblock It will replace any Flash stuff with a "Play" button thus preventing flash ads from being automatically played.

Perhaps this helps.

Michael

 

Well it's good to know I'm not the only one experiencing this. I do use the Noscript add-on for firefox, which blocks flash and a whole bunch of other things too, sometimes too much.

 

I already had Flashblock installed, and adblock, it's still the same problem.

 

Ive been having kind of the same issue with FF for quite some time, youtube video's hanging. Minor glitches, some local thinking by FF of some kind. This all because I have numerous plugins installed. My hardware is fine.

Now I do love FF because of the plugins I need for my work, so Im taking the minor glitches for granted, its not a big deal to me. As long as the plugins cooperate fine with eachother.

But I very well may see that this issue though may be the cause for chrome gaining a lot of support since well, it is just really lightweigted.

 

This could also be caused by a script(s) executed from a page in one of your tabs. At work we're using a custom web-based application and sometimes when some script starts to struggle and load slowly if I click anywhere on the browser it gets greyed out and stays inactive until the script finishes.
You may try do clean up your temporary internet files folder however if a site you're frequent at has an unoptimized or corrupted script the "lock ups" will be back.

 

NoScript is better because it will give you more options on what stuff you want the website you visited to run. Also FLASHBLOCK is included on NoScript.