Firefox freezing up...

dexter27

dexter27

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Hello,

ever since i upgraded to Firefox 3, ive had a problem with the browser freezing up on occasions when i either refresh or go back (my pointer goes to the circle, and on the top bar i get ' Mozilla Firefox - Not responding'). This lasts about 10 or so seconds, and then its back to normal.

I have tried downgrading back, but i still get the same problem.


Im running a xps m1530 4gb with 32 bit vista, and no addons. Dunno if that matters.


I tried googling... Only thing i got was http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=174679&forumId=1 but there doesnt seem to be a solution...


Thanks for your help.
 
Tried Safe mode or a new profile?

Downgrading's a really bad idea, because a bunch of the data in your profile was converted for Fx3, Fx2 can't do anything with it so it'll use the old data that was left behind from when you used Fx2 initially, then if/when you upgrade again Fx3 won't do anything with the data in between upgrading to Fx3 and downgrading to Fx2. On top of that, it can mangle your profile and make any problems a million times worse.
 
tolien said:
Tried Safe mode or a new profile?

Downgrading's a really bad idea, because a bunch of the data in your profile was converted for Fx3, Fx2 can't do anything with it so it'll use the old data that was left behind from when you used Fx2 initially, then if/when you upgrade again Fx3 won't do anything with the data in between upgrading to Fx3 and downgrading to Fx2. On top of that, it can mangle your profile and make any problems a million times worse.
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Thanks. So should i first uninstall and delete all the folders?
 
Neither. Create a new profile, and set Firefox to use that via the profile manager.

Reinstalling Firefox is pointless, but you'd be better with 3.0.3, given 2.0's barely supported now.
 
Is firefox actually any good? thats what I've been wondering lately, I've been using it for years since it was only in beta and I keep thinking, why?

Its been crashing and doing the stop responding thing so much lately I really don't know why I bother. I don't know if we all jumped on it on the anti MS bandwagon or not. I haven't really used IE in years as once I tried firefox the crashing was forgiveable because it had tabs and IE didn't back then. But is there a reason to stick with it anymore.

AS of this morning I've had 4 bsod's, for a reason I can't fathom, and as long as I don't open firefox its not crashing at the moment, seconds after I do BSOD. footie365, amongst a dozen other sites constantly hang firefox for me, maybe its a setting i've missed, i really don't know.

But am i being an idiot for sticking with a crashing firefox, or does everyone else find it stable as anything?
 
I personally hate FF and even more so Thunderbird (tried them every new major build).

I leave them to the MS+IE+OE haters.

I could not care less if someone uses it but when they make BS claims about it vs IE it makes me angry.
 
I mean, I've used it for so long, only have IE so I can get footie365 without it freezing firefox and for an quick login to my alternative hotmail account, both on same browser means logging in where one link in each means straight to inbox.

but it really is ridiculous, maybe I have one site killing it, or its just unstable, I have no idea why I've stuck with it so long. I have to say in the other thread about stupid users someone mentioned IE 7 taking ridiculously long to open up a new blank tab, and I have to agree there. Its embarassing that a blank tab could take so long, but its better than FF freezing.

I've just always been waiting for that non memory leak, stable version of FF to appear. I still treat it like the pre1.0 release beta's in that I can accept the problems because tab's rule. but i think thats the end of it for me.
 
Something is wrong then with your/their IE7.

If you mean like having this page open and then clicking next to this sites Tab to open a new Blank Page its instantaneous for me, I just opened 20 of them 1 after the other.
 
hmm, doing it just now was faster aswell, maybe its only first one when you've just opened IE, I guess I rarely do more than open it and open hotmail tbh.

Any idea of an easy way to get favourites from FF into IE by any chance?
 
tolien said:
Neither. Create a new profile, and set Firefox to use that via the profile manager.

Reinstalling Firefox is pointless, but you'd be better with 3.0.3, given 2.0's barely supported now.
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Alrighty, made a new profile, now just waiting to see if it continues.



I also started using Firefox because of the tabs, back in the day, and now im just too used to it to go back to IE. Also, i always thougth FF was considered to be the safer version? I guess they are the same now?
 
If your machine BSODs running Firefox, there's something badly wrong with your machine - if Fx was making machines die so spectacularly, do you not think someone would've noticed by now?

As for it freezing etc, try what I suggested in post #2.

Alrighty, made a new profile, now just waiting to see if it continues.
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Have you added any extensions, bookmarks etc to it?
 
AS suggested best bet is to create a new profile and use that. I use FF all the time and tend to have very very little problems.

I prefer it purley becase af the various addons espcially Fast Dial
 
tolien said:
You exported them to JSON/HTML and reimported?
That shouldn't be a problem, but installing extensions and copying files from the old profile would be a bad idea.
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Yep, thats what i did.

It was working fine, and i thougth that the new profile fixed it but the problem is back. Any ideas?


Swordfish: Yeah, Fast dial is really nice :)
 
I had a similar problem with FF3 freezing for tens of seconds. For me the issue was two of the new security features frequently updating in the background. Every time they would update, FF would become unresponsive until it finished. The file that was being updated was 'urlclassifier2.sqlite'. Before I disabled the following, the file had grown to over 40M in size.

Try temporarily disabling the two settings under options-->security called 'Block reported attack sites' and 'Block reported web forgeries'. For me it made a difference.

If that works for you and you're ok with a bit less security, I would then suggest you delete 'urlclassifier2.sqlite' and let FF3 rebuild it on the next restart. It should now be around 32K in size and no longer growing out of control.

Another option would be to use the add-on 'SQLite Manager'. Using it, drill down to the above file and do a 'Compact Database'. Just repeat this when FF3 starts to get sluggish again.
 
If you leave those options enabled, but delete the files, they'll be recreated - there does seem to be issues with the file getting screwed up somewhere and letting them be recreated should fix the issue without disabling any "security". It's urlclassifier3.sqlite you're after though, not 2.

On the other hand, disabling those should quickly let you see if it is those causing a problem.

How many (if any) RSS feeds have you got? It might be worth trying a new profile without importing bookmarks.
 
tolien said:
If you leave those options enabled, but delete the files, they'll be recreated - there does seem to be issues with the file getting screwed up somewhere and letting them be recreated should fix the issue without disabling any "security". It's urlclassifier3.sqlite you're after though, not 2.

On the other hand, disabling those should quickly let you see if it is those causing a problem.

How many (if any) RSS feeds have you got? It might be worth trying a new profile without importing bookmarks.
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Im not at my computer at the moment,ill be at my pc by the end of the weekend, so ill try the deleting, but i i dont have any RSS feeds, and only about 5 or so bookmarks.
 
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