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Firefox keeps freezing

silence1186silence1186 Character shields down!Registered User regular
My Firefox browser seems to be broken. I will type in a message, but the letters won't appear right away, but rather seem to catch up all at once after a bit. It also keeps freezing and saying "Not responding." Does anyone have any idea why this might be? An d what could fix it?

I did a CCleaner sweep, and scanned for Viruses and Spyware. The Spyware scanner came back positive, but I couldn't get anything to work, and upon scanning again, the spyware was gone or undetected, so now I'm a bit paranoid that's messing with my browsers.

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    What extensions and plugins do you have installed? I've had this problem repeatedly, and it's always come down to extensions. Unfortunately, Flash is a big culprit, and you probably don't want to disable that outright. User Agent Switcher, Javascript, Quick Time, and Acrobat were other ones I've had this problem with.

  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! Registered User regular
    Extensions: Adblock plus, 7 different versions of Java console, Kapersky URL advisor, Microsoft.net framework assistant (don't think I installed that one), NoScript.

    Plugins (I don't remember getting any of these): Adobe Acrobat, itunes application detector, java deployment toolkit, java (tm) platform SE, microsoft office 2003, microsoft office live plug in , mozilla default plug in, quicktime plugin, shockwave flash, silverlight plugin

    Pink Floyd wrote:
    Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
    Is this not what you expected to see?
    If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes
    You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise.
  • ZeonZeon Registered User
    I had the exact same problem. Its one of the newer versions of flash. I bet youre running windows 7?

    The only solution is to get rid of flash. Not an option for me, so i switched to chrome.

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  • shadowaneshadowane Registered User regular
    hah I have the same problem. It's pretty annoying. Restarting firefox fixes it for a couple days but man. Adobe blows.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! Registered User regular
    Zeon wrote: »
    I had the exact same problem. Its one of the newer versions of flash. I bet youre running windows 7?

    The only solution is to get rid of flash. Not an option for me, so i switched to chrome.

    Yeah, windows 7.

    Pink Floyd wrote:
    Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
    Is this not what you expected to see?
    If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes
    You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise.
  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Registered User regular
    I would say uninstall and reinstall.

    That usually fixes things for me.

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! Registered User regular
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    I would say uninstall and reinstall.

    That usually fixes things for me.

    Firefox, not Windows 7, right?

    Pink Floyd wrote:
    Tell me is something eluding you, sunshine?
    Is this not what you expected to see?
    If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes
    You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise.
  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    Extensions: Adblock plus, 7 different versions of Java console, Kapersky URL advisor, Microsoft.net framework assistant (don't think I installed that one), NoScript.

    Plugins (I don't remember getting any of these): Adobe Acrobat, itunes application detector, java deployment toolkit, java (tm) platform SE, microsoft office 2003, microsoft office live plug in , mozilla default plug in, quicktime plugin, shockwave flash, silverlight plugin

    Microsoft sticks that .net framework one in, you can safely kill it. I bolded a few others like the MS Office ones that most likely came in with other software. Silverlight comes in from Windows Update depending on your settings regarding optional updates.

    The Java consoles aren't needed to actually run Java, nor is the deployment toolkit. Everything in italics, I'd say consider disabling it unless you actually make use of it - there are some sites that use quicktime and silverlight, but flash is more common, and if you disable the acrobat plugin, it'll just download PDF files and you can open them in acrobat reader itself.

    Still, flash is the big one for this stuff, and it's probably the least dispensable thing on the list

  • THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Registered User regular
    THEPAIN73 wrote: »
    I would say uninstall and reinstall.

    That usually fixes things for me.

    Firefox, not Windows 7, right?

    Correct.

    I should have been more clear.

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