csrss.exe and firefox

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 11th, 2005, 11:35 pm

Have all of you that are having this problem cleaned up a virus/spyware since your last xp install? Also can all of you that are having this problem list which programs you have installed? Should be helpful for people trying to find the common denominator.

jesusX · Post by **jesusX** » August 12th, 2005, 12:07 am

Ok, a friend pointed me to try to help here.

CSRSS is a core system component, without it, or if you somehow manage to kill it, you'll be rewarded with a BSOD. It is the process through which everything in userland runs. SYSTEM is the kernel process, also device drivers, interrupts, etc. Photoshop has nothing to do with it. Whatever root cause, I'll bet dollars to donuts that it's either an exposed inefficiency in Firefox, or a plugin that's going haywire. I've seen flash ads that suck up 100% CPU. or pages that are so insane that Firefox shits bricks trying to render it. So, focus on the page content, not on spyware here.

Just a note.

rootyb · Post by **rootyb** » August 12th, 2005, 12:10 am

I've done lots of scans, virus and spyware.

Programs in my add/remove programs list:

AC3Filter
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Reader 6.0.1
Adobe Reader for Pocket PC 2.0
Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.1
Alcohol 120%
ALPS Touch Pad Driver
AVG Free Edition
Betaplayer
BitComet 0.58
Bluetooth Remote Control
Broadcome Driver Installer
CCleaner
ClearType Tuning Control Panel Applet
C-Major Audio
Conexant D480 MDC V.9x Modem
Creative DVD Audio Plugin for Audigy Series
Cubis for Windows Mobile Smartphone
Cyber-D's Wallpaper Shifter SE 6.12
Dell Wireless WLAN Card
DirectVobSub
DVD Region-Free 3.06
ffdshow
FrameShots Video Screen Capture
Gallery Remote
GSpot Codec Information Appliance
Homescreen Designer
InterVideo WinDVD 6
iTunes
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 4
Macromedia FreeHand MXa
Macromedia Shockwave Player
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
Microsoft ActiveSync 4.0
Microsoft AntiSpyware
Microsoft Code Named Acrylic
Microsoft Outlook 2002
Mozilla Firefox (1.0.6)
Mozilla Thunderbird (1.0.6)
MSN Music Assistant
Nero 6 Ultra Edition
NVIDIA Drivers
PartyPoker
PeerGuardian 2.0
PowerPlayer.com
QuarkXPress
Quicktime
RealPlayer
Remove DivX Codec
Repligo Desktop
Riverbelle Multiplayer Casino
SigmaTel AC97 Audio Drivers
SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2005.SR1 (Win64/32/CE)
SmartFTP
Theme Generator Smartphone
Trial Challenge
Trillian
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
Wacom Tablet Driver
Winamp
Windows Installer 3.1
Windows XP Service Pack 2
WinRAR Archiver
Worms World Party for Smartphone
X264 H.264/AVC Video Codec

*rests wrists*

/edit: btw, thanks, Jesus. That's kind of the way I was leaning, too, which is why I posted a few examples of pages I was having problems with.

I just wants it fixed. I hate having to load IE for ANYTHING, let alone a few times a day, because Firefox locks up.

I'd have reformatted awhile ago, if it wasn't such a pain (don't really have anywhere to backup at the moment).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 12th, 2005, 12:21 am

maybe it's happening unreliably because it is the specific ads, like someone mentioned earlier? And that is why it's not happening to everyone every time, because the ad is different?

rootyb · Post by **rootyb** » August 12th, 2005, 9:13 am

Well, I get the problem on google pages that have no ads (well, except for the google desktop search ad thing that's always at the bottom, so maybe that's the problem? It varies between ads for google desktop search, and google toolbar.).

For example, I can't load this page in FireFox without csrss.exe shooting to 75-99% processor usage, and FireFox freezing: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sm ... smartphone

criz · Post by **criz** » August 12th, 2005, 4:46 pm

rootyb wrote:Well, I get the problem on google pages that have no ads (well, except for the google desktop search ad thing that's always at the bottom, so maybe that's the problem? It varies between ads for google desktop search, and google toolbar.).

For example, I can't load this page in FireFox without csrss.exe shooting to 75-99% processor usage, and FireFox freezing: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sm ... smartphone

Good call rooty... I tried that link and my firefox freezes as csrss.exe goes apeshit.

criz · Post by **criz** » August 12th, 2005, 6:15 pm

I found a site thats freezing Firefox every time as well: <a href="http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/network-linux.htm">http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/network-linux.htm</a>

This is interesting because most examples that people have had have something to do with Google. This site is obviously not on Google's servers. Cant anyone else confirm a freeze up with this site as well???

criz · Post by **criz** » August 12th, 2005, 6:33 pm

Another weird thing thats happening to me now:

When I type "about:config" in the address bar in Firefox and the configuration settings come up, I scroll down about a third of the way until csrss.exe does its thing once again! I repeated the same thing three times with csrss.exe freezing firefox at almost the same scroll distance down each time. This is very peculiar because it happens when Im not connected to the internet, on Firefox's very own config page. Can anyone else confirm this one?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 13th, 2005, 2:46 am

criz look what it says on that site under the ad...

"Ads by Goooooogle"

(btw I am also the guest that posted twice on this page already... any chance of getting old members with no posts purged so I can get my regular username?

)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 13th, 2005, 2:50 am

ok me again, here is a thought. I can't make this stuff happen, but I am in Canada so my google is google.ca. Is it possible it is something to do with google.com? Now that we have fairly narrowed it down to google ads, I think this might be easier to look into.

Byronedwards · Post by **Byronedwards** » August 13th, 2005, 7:22 pm

criz wrote:Another weird thing thats happening to me now:

When I type "about:config" in the address bar in Firefox and the configuration settings come up, I scroll down about a third of the way until csrss.exe does its thing once again! I repeated the same thing three times with csrss.exe freezing firefox at almost the same scroll distance down each time. This is very peculiar because it happens when Im not connected to the internet, on Firefox's very own config page. Can anyone else confirm this one?

Yes, same thing happening here

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 13th, 2005, 7:30 pm

Ok, in about:config I did see a bit of a freeze for literally 2 seconds before it moved on.

What processor speed do you guys have that you see these problems?

In the mean time I'll keep trying to do the about:config thing and see which value is making it happen.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 13th, 2005, 7:35 pm

Grah, too many posts I keep thinking of things right after I post.

Ok I checked, and the part of about:config that is hanging for me is the part with the languages, and the non english characters the font-namelist stuff.

So if we can figure out if those characters are in the ads somewhere or if this is two issues, that'd be nice.

Byronedwards · Post by **Byronedwards** » August 13th, 2005, 7:37 pm

Anonymous wrote:Ok, in about:config I did see a bit of a freeze for literally 2 seconds before it moved on.

What processor speed do you guys have that you see these problems?

In the mean time I'll keep trying to do the about:config thing and see which value is making it happen.

Hi,

I've an AMD AthlonXP 2400+ with 1GB of Ram

rootyb · Post by **rootyb** » August 13th, 2005, 11:12 pm

Okay, I wish it were as simple as saying it's the google ads, but that wouldn't explain why pretty much ANY wikipedia page triggers it, too.

For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base

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