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    Is anyone else getting really bad Firefox freezes?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Greg, Aug 25, 2006.

  1. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Hey all,

    My FF freezes about every 10 minutes (happens when i change pages or scroll through them), and crashes about twice a day (too bad error reporting to microsoft is off on this machine!).

    Anyway, am I alone in this. Yes, i have the latest version of FF running, with most/all XP patches (incl. SP2).
     
    Greg, Aug 25, 2006
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  2. chris2pher71

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    ram? cpu? error messages?
     
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    i have about 400 mb of RAM left out of a gig, and CPU usage doesn't spike too much during the freezes. i can still work on other things (including load the same page in IE and do some additional link clicking). whatever error messages i should get, well...I'm not getting them (except for the "Firefox is not responding...click END NOW"

    What bothers me is that I'm getting this on two computers!
     
    Greg, Aug 25, 2006
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  4. NetBrakr

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    Hm, weird. My notebook and my old desktop (500mhz with 128 MB of RAM) has no problem running Firefox. Maybe there is software conflict?

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Aug 25, 2006
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    You know, I have not had problems with it freezing, but I have noticed that firefox has begun to crash once in a while (it never did it before). I wonder if its just a bug with the last update or something.
     
    spookyu, Aug 25, 2006
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    Aren't you running JAVA? Java initialization used to freeze pages when loading, but not when scrolling though...
     
    notabenem, Aug 25, 2006
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    Yeah, my Firefox was crashing quite regularly a while back. It was really annoying, so I started trying to use Opera 9 (I'd used Opera 8 for a while before), but for some reason a lot of websites I regularly visit weren't showing up properly in Opera, so I switched back. But yeah, the latest versions of Firefox have been quite disappointing. I actually use IE7+ in Vista exclusively. I have Firefox installed, but IE7+ just seems faster and more reliable, not to mention I prefer the UI. IE7 looks fantastic in Vista (pretty lackluster in XP IMO). Version 1.0.7 was the last release I really completely liked. Version 1.5 is much more unstable in my opinion. I can't remember ever having a crash in 1.0.7. But then again, I've never had a crash with Firefox 1.5 in Linux, so I don't know what the problem is.
     
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    on my other computer that problem has occured more than in the past.
     
    qsimpson, Aug 25, 2006
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