FF stops for several minutes

[petergo]

hi

I am running FF ver 52 x x ESR and win 10

for about a week or so I notice that FF stops working occassionally. I can't even do a restart as the menu bar is grayed out during this stop interval.
After a short time it seems to come back and work again.

I do the CTRL + SHIFT + Z , and I am back in business

I have checked my add ons and extensions and nothing new or strange there

appreciate advice and suggestions
kindest thanks, cheers
peter

[DanRaisch]

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs

[petergo]

g'day Dan

thank you for the link

I deleted from the profile all the placessqlite and sessionrestore files.

As the problem of hanging does occur daily, but usually later in the day after FF has been running many many hours, I won't know until tomorrow if problem is resolved

I will let you know either way

thnx, cheers
peter

[mightyglydd]

Monty Python - Hunting Film
for about a week or so I notice that FF stops working occassionally.

What else is going on when that happens, (start Windows task manager) AV update, something backing up system or scanning ?

[petergo]

g'day mightyG

I don't know if anything else is going on, hadn't thought about that
Can't imagine there is, but I will check if and when it happens again
thnx for the idea
cheers m8
peter

[therube]

I do the CTRL + SHIFT + Z , and I am back in business

What does that do?

the menu bar is grayed out

Sounds like its eating CPU & until that subsides you're not able to interact with the browser.
Next time it happens, check CPU usage (for firefox.exe).

[petergo]

hi

ok, seems to have happened again, and about same time of day. I have the Task Manager open and FF is using about 32% of CPU but that amount seems to be the same each time I look

the CTRL + SHIFT + Z trick, restarts FF

appreciate any further suggestions please

It is happening more frequently now, it freezes for severa

[petergo]

it freezes for several minutes, then works for a few minutes, then freezes again
Now it is becoming annoying, much more than just a nuisance

please help <smiles>

thnx, cheers

[therube]

Try, http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14778169.

[petergo]

hi problem appears to be worsening

this time when it froze, I see FF is using 64% of CPU

it's getting really bad, and freezing for longer periods
and even a problem simply trying to type this message

everything else working perfectly on my desktop device

thanks, hope y'all had a gr8 Thanksgiving
cheers
peter

[petergo]

i just disabled Avast Online security and the CPU usage is now ranging between 60 - 64%

cheers
peter