Anyone noticed Firefox playing up?

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Quite frequently over the last few days I've noticed my laptop becoming unresponsive (running XP) and when looking at Windows Task Manager dear old Firefox is taking up over 90% of the CPU. The machine only becomes responsive when FF calms down.

Everything seems fine when I try another browser (Flock, Safari etc).

Just wondered if anyone else had the same thing or whether its only a problem with my installation.

Cheers,

Neil
 
I had to stop using FireFox for a wee while, it turned out that the adblocker plug in I had installed was cocking things up, I couldn't open my site.

Adblocker was removed and all was well again.
 
Tomas Whitehouse said:
I had to stop using FireFox for a wee while, it turned out that the adblocker plug in I had installed was cocking things up, I couldn't open my site.

Adblocker was removed and all was well again.
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I don't have adblocker but have gone through the plug-ins and disabled any that don't seem necessary - see if it makes any difference :|

CaptainPenguin said:
I have had a problem with Firefox just freezing and when I try to refresh a site it just says STOPPED,dont know if this is the same problem
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Have you looked at Task Manager when this happens to see if FF is using up all the CPU?

wegotitugetit said:
mine keeps freezing on xp too the closes amdn reboot's on 2 of my machines but IE is fine
and on my laptop with vista the same thing happens too
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May not just be my installation thats playing up then. I don't mind using another browser ,except I won't use IE :spit: but I do prefer Firefox when it works properly.
 
neilmac said:
Quite frequently over the last few days I've noticed my laptop becoming unresponsive (running XP) and when looking at Windows Task Manager dear old Firefox is taking up over 90% of the CPU. The machine only becomes responsive when FF calms down.

Everything seems fine when I try another browser (Flock, Safari etc).

Just wondered if anyone else had the same thing or whether its only a problem with my installation.

Cheers,

Neil
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It has always done that since I started using it.

In fact I gave up on FF a few years ago for that very reason.

I think it's because it is looking for updates and stuff.

I prefer FF to IE now but FF is certainly not the bees knees that some folk think it is.
 
I have FF on my laptop and funnily enough it's behaved itself for the last couple of months, before that it used to crash on a daily basis....
 
Mikesphotaes said:
It has always done that since I started using it.

In fact I gave up on FF a few years ago for that very reason.

I think it's because it is looking for updates and stuff.

I prefer FF to IE now but FF is certainly not the bees knees that some folk think it is.
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I've only noticed this over the last few days. In the past FF has been superb (IMO)

Maybe it is the updates thing, but its certainly a pain in the a... at the moment.
 
It usually works the CPU hard for a few mins. within about half an hour of starting FF, then it's OK for the rest of the time.
 
neilmac said:
Quite frequently over the last few days I've noticed my laptop becoming unresponsive (running XP) and when looking at Windows Task Manager dear old Firefox is taking up over 90% of the CPU. The machine only becomes responsive when FF calms down.

Everything seems fine when I try another browser (Flock, Safari etc).

Just wondered if anyone else had the same thing or whether its only a problem with my installation.

Cheers,

Neil
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It sometimes happens to me - ff really is bloated and a resource hog but i just like it's functionality.

Mind you Chrome is blazing
 
Firefox for me keeps stopping responding, but only for a few seconds, then it's fine.
 
not noticed any problems here, yet :suspect:
using FF on fedora9, ubuntu 8.04, xp home 32 bit, xp pro x64, vista 32 bit and 64 bit home premium, not at the same time of course,
I know to many hard drives and I need to get out more :lol:
 
I used to have the same problem on my XP machine.

I moved to a vista machine and it was clunky but still worked. I have ditched it completely now though. I use Google Chrome and love it. It feels much faster, don't know the stats to confirm if it is or not though. I'd roccommend it over FF anyday though.
 
Over the last couple of months I have had the same problems with FF, it doesn't seem to be anywhere near as stable as it was.
 
Thanks for the replies, seems a mixed experience :shrug:

Enough similar responses to my own though, I think I'm going to persevere with a different browser for a while. Seems Chrome gets a few votes.

Cheers,

Neil
 
Mine keeps crashing/freezing and resetting itself.
I'm considering going back to IE.....

:razz:
 
andy_fozzy said:
Mine keeps crashing/freezing and resetting itself.
I'm considering going back to IE.....

:razz:
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Why IE Andy?

Loads of (better?) ones to choose from :thinking:

Neil
 
I tried Opera yesterday, typed a rather large reply to a hotmail email and the bleedin thing froze when I tried to send the reply.

Up until that point I had been very impressed by the speed of the browser, however it does not support an EXIF reader.

Ta, ta Opera !
 
the mac version of FF has been playing up for me over the last week, it seems to miss the CSS files for some sites, so the page renders without layout. I downloaded the new safari (which you can get for mac and pc) it is so fast I could not believe I was using the same machine. On my pc laptop it was many times faster than FF or IE
 
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