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firefox freezes and says not responding, nothing has helped

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mozillafirefox freezes and a round blue wheel spins around. Script may be running, Mozilla not responding. I have done some of the suggestions but nothing seems to work. I even put in config; and started to delete but did not really know what I was doing. This not responding happens a LOT. I do not know what to do.

mozillafirefox freezes and a round blue wheel spins around. Script may be running, Mozilla not responding. I have done some of the suggestions but nothing seems to work. I even put in config; and started to delete but did not really know what I was doing. This not responding happens a LOT. I do not know what to do.

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Did not help. Just disabled real download plug in, maybe that will help. However did receive message script still running with a very long script name. When I clicked on it, it sent to a page and it was no help. Mozilla keeps going in and out of not responding!

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox (you need to close and restart Firefox).

You can check for problems with current Flash plugin versions and try these:

  • disable a possible RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension for Firefox and update the RealPlayer if installed
  • disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
  • disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin
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I disabled hardware acceleration. I looked for the others but have not found them yet. I do not know if this solved the problem because I have not been on the computer yet. Thank you so very much for the help. I will come back and let you know if this solved the problem THANKS!

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Did not help. Just disabled real download plug in, maybe that will help. However did receive message script still running with a very long script name. When I clicked on it, it sent to a page and it was no help. Mozilla keeps going in and out of not responding!

Modified by hiker125

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For me, the issue was Xmarks addon. I've used it to migrate my Chrome bookmarks to Firefox. After I've disabled it the issue was gone.