Firefox keeps freezing

silence1186

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.

Hevach

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.

silence1186

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

Zeon

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.

shadowane

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

silence1186

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.

THEPAIN73

I would say uninstall and reinstall.

That usually fixes things for me.

silence1186

THEPAIN73 wrote: »

I would say uninstall and reinstall.

That usually fixes things for me.

Firefox, not Windows 7, right?

Hevach

silence1186 wrote: »

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

THEPAIN73

silence1186 wrote: »

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.