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  • ehh
    Hall Of Fame
    • Mar 2003
    • 28962

    #1

    My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

    It started happening last week at my PC at work, every time I open Firefox it freezes almost immediately. I started in safe mode, reset, blah blah blah, it would work for the first few times I opened it and then once again it would crap out and freeze. I uninstalled the program a few times and re-installed it but it didn't help, it still kept freezing.

    Now this afternoon I was working from home and the same problem started happening here.

    I have the most up-to-date version of Firefox and the only extensions I have installed are all-in-one gestures, forecast fox and autocopy. I had the Nokia skin or whatever it's called, but I disabled that.

    Any ideas?
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    yellow
    • Sep 2002
    • 66469

    #2
    Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

    dl Opera

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    • RubenDouglas
      Hall Of Fame
      • May 2003
      • 11202

      #3
      Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

      i had to revert back to IE because of that.. then IE messed up a few times.. basically im online less because of the hassle

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      • mgoblue
        Go Wings!
        • Jul 2002
        • 25477

        #4
        Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

        that's pretty odd, i have no clue what to try/what would cause it, since you've tried most fixes...so i'm going to go with "because you play with yourself at night" as the cause of your firefox freezes
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        • SPTO
          binging
          • Feb 2003
          • 68046

          #5
          Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

          Could it be a virus or a problem with your registry?

          I dunno too much!
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            yellow
            • Sep 2002
            • 66469

            #6
            Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

            Check to see how much of your memory Firefox is taking up in the taskmanager.

            Awhile back there was a problem with a memory leak in FF, which is why i switched to Opera.

            Same thing kept happening when i had firefox

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            • RubenDouglas
              Hall Of Fame
              • May 2003
              • 11202

              #7
              Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

              yep KDRE.. thats what my problem was.

              it started at the normal memory rate of a few MB... then it got increasingly higher for no reason.. then it started affecting my USAGE until it was at 100% and appeared to "freeze".. thats almost always the issue with IE and FF for me

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                yellow
                • Sep 2002
                • 66469

                #8
                Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                Thats why i now use opera

                Unless you have an incredible amount of memory on your computer

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                • fishepa
                  I'm Ron F'n Swanson!
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 18989

                  #9
                  Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                  Originally posted by KDRE_OS
                  Thats why i now use opera

                  Unless you have an incredible amount of memory on your computer
                  Me too. FF takes up way too much memory.

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                  • ehh
                    Hall Of Fame
                    • Mar 2003
                    • 28962

                    #10
                    Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                    Does Opera have mouse gestures and tabbed browsing? I honestly don't know if I could ever go back to a browser that didn't have these features.

                    EDIT: Right now FF in safe mode is taking up just over 40,000 K.
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                    "Beware of geeks bearing formulas." - Warren Buffet

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                    • Blzer
                      Resident film pundit
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 42535

                      #11
                      Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                      Opera definitely has tabbed browsing. It also allows you to scroll and lock scroll, but not the way that I like it like on Firefox.

                      I prefer Firefox.
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                      • fishepa
                        I'm Ron F'n Swanson!
                        • Feb 2003
                        • 18989

                        #12
                        Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                        Originally posted by ehh
                        Does Opera have mouse gestures and tabbed browsing? I honestly don't know if I could ever go back to a browser that didn't have these features.

                        EDIT: Right now FF in safe mode is taking up just over 40,000 K.
                        Yes, it has mouse gestures built in.

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                        • 23
                          yellow
                          • Sep 2002
                          • 66469

                          #13
                          Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                          Originally posted by ehh
                          Does Opera have mouse gestures and tabbed browsing? I honestly don't know if I could ever go back to a browser that didn't have these features.

                          EDIT: Right now FF in safe mode is taking up just over 40,000 K.

                          Tabbed browsing. Im not sure of all of the mouse gestures but im sure some of them are in there, including the click and pull back to go back a page. I use that one.

                          40,000 for one page is too much

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                          • ehh
                            Hall Of Fame
                            • Mar 2003
                            • 28962

                            #14
                            Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                            I just checked my extensions and noticed I had something called "TalkBack" in there, I mos def did not download that. I just erased that and restarted Firefox, I'm running it in regular mode now and it's okay for the time being...
                            "You make your name in the regular season, and your fame in the postseason." - Clyde Frazier

                            "Beware of geeks bearing formulas." - Warren Buffet

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                            • JayBee74
                              Hall Of Fame
                              • Jul 2002
                              • 22989

                              #15
                              Re: My Firefox freezing like crazy.....

                              Try uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox-It worked for me when I was having problems.

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