Firefox Stops Responding

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  1. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    I have just installed Firefox, it is very smooth, however, when I use it on this site to look at a thread, if I try to reply, Firefox stops responding and my CPU usage climbs to approx 51%.

    I'm running stock standard 0.9.2 it locks the page, I can Control+Alt+Delete and close the "not responding" pages. This is only found when replying to a post or using quote to reply to a post. I tried rebooting to no avail. Then tried IE and everything is normal, only find problem with Firefox...

    Any suggestions?

    Cheers :D
     

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  2. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    Do you have that problem if you shut down any other running programs that may act as a proxy etc?
     
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  3. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    Thanks for your replay Ronjor.

    I'm using Proxomitron, I closed that, and reset the connection to not use a proxy, and problem still remains...

    Cheers :D
     
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  4. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    How about ostat and file checker?
     
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  5. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    I have just uninstalled Ostat, and shut down Filechecker, still the same...

    Cheers o_O
     
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  6. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator


    I'm using Firefox 9.2 with proxomitron and don't have this problem.
    I also have several extensions installed.

    Sounds like a conflict with something. What?

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
     
    ronjor, Jul 19, 2004
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  7. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    I've put up a post there on Sunday, as well as a post on bugzilla, so hopefully it won't be too long until the problem is found.

    Thanks for your help...

    Cheers :D
     
    Blackspear, Jul 19, 2004
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  8. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    I have just tried killing every process running (programs only) 1 by 1, until I was left with only my ADSL connection, and Sound.

    Still left with the same problem, and only while using Firefox...

    Cheers :D
     
    Blackspear, Jul 19, 2004
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  9. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator


    Why don't you uninstall everything (Firefox) including your profile and reinstall.
    That is a strange problem! :D

    You don't suppose Imon is doing that do you? It is a beta too.
     
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  10. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    I'll try this tomorrow night, it's 12:30am here, and time to hit the sack :)

    RE: IMON, I did shut down Nod32 as well as kill it in task manager, so not sure on that one...

    Cheers :D
     
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  11. f123

    f123 Guest

    Remove FF, including the Firefox and Mozilla folders in your hard drive. Download the zip version of FF 0.9.2 again. Extract the file and click on the firefox.exe icon (no need to install FF). DO NOT apply any tweak yet. Check for problem.

    F.
     
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  12. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator


    Try clearing your cache also and set it to zero.
     
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  13. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    Thanks for your reply, trying this now :)

    Cheers :D
     
    Blackspear, Jul 19, 2004
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  14. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    Just tried the above to no avail, still the same, there must be something on my system that FF doesn't like...

    Cheers :D
     
    Blackspear, Jul 19, 2004
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  15. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    Blackspear

    Close Firefox and delete your profile (Mozilla)in documents and settings and try Firefox again.
     
    ronjor, Jul 19, 2004
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  16. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    Hi Ronjor, where exactly is my Mozilla profile kept, I went hunting with FF closed and could not find it...

    Cheers :D
     
    Blackspear, Jul 19, 2004
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  17. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator


    Documents and settings under your name.
     
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  18. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    Nope, not that I can see...

    Cheers :D
     

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  19. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    Double click my computer and look for Documents and settings
     
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  20. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    I made a search of the C drive, which one of these is my profile?

    Cheers :D
     

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  21. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    sixth folder from the top
     
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  22. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    It looks like you have Mozilla also. This may cause some confusion.
     
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  23. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    I downloaded Mozilla, but haven't installed it...

    Cheers :D
     
    Blackspear, Jul 19, 2004
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  24. Blackspear

    Blackspear Global Moderator

    And now it works perfectly, I removed the Mozilla folder, started up FF, it asked if I wanted to "Import" settings, I said no, and now it's as it should be... :D :D :D

    Thanks Ronjor

    Cheers :D
     
    Blackspear, Jul 19, 2004
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  25. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    Great! :D
     
    ronjor, Jul 19, 2004
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