Firefox regularly freezing after upgrading to 8.0
Ever since upgrading to Firefox 8.0.x, Firefox has been freezing on me.
From what I can tell, this happens when I typing in textboxes (composing e-mails, other...); in fact, Firefox froze for about 10 seconds when registering my account on these forums!
I am in safe mode with all extensions/plugins turned off and I am still experiencing this problem.
When I open the Activity Monitor app, the "% CPU" column for Firefox will spike to 100 during the freezes.
What the heck is going on here?
I am not sure how much more freezing I can take... I am tempted to switch to Chrome or Safari. :(
被選擇的解決方法
Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode (hold down the SHIFT key when starting Firefox) to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem and to make sure you are using the default theme:
Firefox (Tools) -> Add-ons -> Appearance
Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
See also the help article:
Troubleshooting extensions and themes
Also make sure to update your plug-ins (Java, Flash, etc.)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
The following help articles address crashes in Firefox:
You can also search for similar help articles
If you have to re-install, do a clean installation:
- download Firefox and save installation file,
- uninstall Firefox,
- delete the Firefox program files folder, (important)
- reboot
- re-install with administrator privileges. (important)
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選擇的解決方法
Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode (hold down the SHIFT key when starting Firefox) to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem and to make sure you are using the default theme:
Firefox (Tools) -> Add-ons -> Appearance
Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
See also the help article:
Troubleshooting extensions and themes
Also make sure to update your plug-ins (Java, Flash, etc.)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
The following help articles address crashes in Firefox:
You can also search for similar help articles
If you have to re-install, do a clean installation:
- download Firefox and save installation file,
- uninstall Firefox,
- delete the Firefox program files folder, (important)
- reboot
- re-install with administrator privileges. (important)
Thank you sctl! Re-installing firefox, fresh/clean install, seems to have helped.
Much appreciated.
Cheers, M
hi,
i've tried downgrading, disabling of extensions, reinstalling 8.0.1 again. didn't make a difference.
so i've tried, what mozilla suggests: create a new profile. it worked out and now firefox is as fast as a long time ago.
here is a good instruction. you have to use terminal, though, but it's easy. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager#Mac_OS_X
after creating a new profile, you have to copy the whole content of your 'old' profile into the folder of the new one - and all your settings, extensions etc. will be there, again.
the only thing that didn't work, was deleting the old profile afterwards in the profile manager. but you won't realize it until you run the profile manager again.