Instability/Crashing when Win10 runs updates in background
I recently had two instances of instability, one mainly in regard to horrid playback of html5 video on YouTube, and upon trying to fix with restarting FF, etc, had an interesting find.
In both instances, when I finally resorted to a reboot, I found that my machine was running the mandatory Windows updates. After the updates were applied and the system back up, Firefox improved, although in the poor video playback instance another reboot was required.
Just now, the issue was a crashed FF that would greet my with yet another "Sorry! Firefox Crashed." screen. Quitting and restarting did nothing, killing any instance of FF in Task Manager didn't help. Log out/in didn't help. Renaming my profile didn't help. None of the standard tricks (that I know of) helped. Therefore, upon the restart, again Windows told me to wait so it could install updates.
Hmm . . . This seems pretty suspicious to me.
To note: My poor video playback didn't have to do with bandwidth; the video downloaded and buffered fine, it just stuttered and dropped frames like crazy.
Perhaps this is all just coincidental, but I've raised the issue in case it happens to jive with others' complaints.
All Replies (5)
pub44,
I was unable to locate that sort of error and will refrain from your suggested actions. Thanks for your reply.
I did, however, come to realize that my upgrade to Win 10 reverted my defrag options to defaults, definitely not what I wanted and was able to fix that at least :)
Hi, I've been put off Win10 by the forced updates, and the easiest workaround I've found is to set the connection to metered - am using Win7 so haven't tried it!
Scribe said
Hi, I've been put off Win10 by the forced updates, and the easiest workaround I've found is to set the connection to metered - am using Win7 so haven't tried it!
I have a lan connection. I don't have the option to make that a metered connection. Bummer. I really don't like the auto updates. I'll keep looking around and see if/when someone comes up with a way to work around this. Many want to, and there should be a way sometime. Apparently, however, even turning off the updates in the registry will not work. Talk about hard-wired.
pub44,
I tried your recommendations, but Firefox just cannot handle html5 video at 1080p, now even without updates running in the background. Mostly it tends to buffer. Hardware acceleration tends to improve rather than degrade my experience. I'm about done with Firefox. It's just become a hassle dealing with video every day.
brntoki said
pub44, I tried your recommendations, but Firefox just cannot handle html5 video at 1080p, now even without updates running in the background. Mostly it tends to buffer. Hardware acceleration tends to improve rather than degrade my experience. I'm about done with Firefox. It's just become a hassle dealing with video every day.
I never had a crash to the new version but it was so slow afther sometime and the memory problems it creates are huge.
I did moved back to firefox 38.0.5 because i had the need for speed.