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Ajiyayyu

Why does SINCE about 3.5 thru to 4.0 Firefox often not respond?

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nerok replied 15 shekaru da suka gabata
Davidoff_theReal
Davidoff_theReal

Since the version before 3.6 (3.5 presumably), and including the new 4.0, I experience the following issue that none of the posted answers (and problems) seems to resemble:

I am able to work nicely with Firefox for an unspecified time, but suddenly, without any identifiable reason, Firefox would almost freeze: Even just scrolling the browser page would then take 3 seconds per line(!). - I then regularly cancel the entire application in Windows Task Manager, and restart Firefox. Most of the time, Firefox will then work normally - until the next freeze, which can be 20 minutes or so away.

Any idea how to prevent this "freezing"?

Since the version before 3.6 (3.5 presumably), and including the new 4.0, I experience the following issue that none of the posted answers (and problems) seems to resemble: I am able to work nicely with Firefox for an unspecified time, but suddenly, without any identifiable reason, Firefox would almost freeze: Even just scrolling the browser page would then take 3 seconds per line(!). - I then regularly cancel the entire application in Windows Task Manager, and restart Firefox. Most of the time, Firefox will then work normally - until the next freeze, which can be 20 minutes or so away. Any idea how to prevent this "freezing"?

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jakfak
jakfak

I use a PC and I've had the same problem for a long time with the newer Firefox versions. For no reason Firefox will suddenly freeze and I get the "not-responding" text in the title bar. I then have to manually shut down Firefox by opening Task Manager and going to the Processes tab. I don't know if it's because I have too many tabs open at once, but that should not make any difference. Generally I've noticed that Firefox is using approx. 500,000 to 600,000 K of resources when this happens. I know it has nothing to do with my RAM because I have 3 GB of RAM and plenty available RAM when it happens. This problem is so annoying.

jakfak
jakfak

BTW, my version of Firefox is 4.0.1 but it started happening before that update.

nerok
nerok

do you have any plugins etc installed. try disable them (or start in safe-mode). one of them may be causing a 'memory leak'.