Mozilla Firefox Hangs

[Robie]

Hope someone there has some insight.

I run Windows 7 with Microsoft Security Essentials. For the last 3 weeks or so, I've noticed that Firefox (my preferred browser) hangs at various points when I'm browsing. By "hangs" I mean that the cursor stops moving, the circular moving icon appears and I can't do anything for a minute or so. This happens every five minutes or so.

If I left click on the screen while this happens (as in trying to navigate to another site), the screen will go to half tone but eventually comes back. Control/Alt/Delete will also eventually kill the hang.

It doesn't seem to do this when I browse with Explorer.

This morning, I uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled it but kept my personal data and customizations but still am experiencing the problem.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[petehall347]

disable any add ons then install them back one by one ..o found firefox was getting slower and slower so i moved to google chrome

 

[Robie]

Thanks for the suggestions botrytis and petehall347!.

I'll try to completely uninstall and report back.

 

[Robie]

Seems to have solved the problem!

Thanks!

 

[rslifkin]

I've had a lot of issues with this in the newer versions of Firefox. In the cases where it's not a plugin problem, forcing the cache size to 0mb (effectively disabling caching) seems to fix it.

 

[whitey]

Since an upgrade a month or two ago it always hangs or says "not responding".

 

[Robie]

It seems that uninstalling the entire version without saving the "personal data and customizations" solved my problem. I haven't had a single "hang" since.

 

[whitey]

I just did all of that and will see if anything changes but I'm starting to like chrome better.

 

[guiller]

It seems that uninstalling the entire version without saving the "personal data and customizations" solved my problem. I haven't had a single "hang" since.

Great! :thmbsp:

 

[Brian]

Try Opera; I gave up on FF and never cared for Chrome. Opera is faster than any other browser I've tried and does not seem to have any downsize. Most recently I picked up a netbook and IE would not conform to the screen size. Installed Opera and the problem was taken care of.