FireFox freezing on when executed?

haifista · Post by **haifista** » May 1st, 2005, 2:07 pm

My FF loads up, then freezes anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds. This is extremely annoying? Does anyone else have this problem? Is it spyware? Should I post sys. specs.?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » May 1st, 2005, 2:24 pm

I am having the same problem. Used to run fine on my old machine, now constantly crashes and goes to "Not Responding." Please help, I miss my FireFox!

a;skdjfajf;ak · Post by **a;skdjfajf;ak** » May 1st, 2005, 2:28 pm

If your using Switch Proxy or User Agent Switcher - both are causing problems...Disable them

Guest · Post by **Guest** » May 1st, 2005, 2:48 pm

Yes, that worked, now it runs perfect. Thank you, Littlemutt

hellene · Post by **hellene** » May 1st, 2005, 3:36 pm

If you need them, UAS should work if you uninstall what you have and download the latest version from the author's website. Switchproxy should work if you disable its own internal autoupdate feature.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » May 1st, 2005, 7:49 pm

Same problem here after the install of Tiger on my MAC. My page will freeze and will be listed as unresponding and I will force quit the application because of the wait that can be 5 sec to whenever it decides to work again.
I didn't have this problem before the Tiger install.
J:D

Dave1980 · Post by **Dave1980** » May 2nd, 2005, 11:23 am

Littlemutt wrote:If your using Switch Proxy or User Agent Switcher - both are causing problems...Disable them

I'm not using any of them 2 and I havBasic CSS Box Modele that problemBasic CSS Box Model

Dave1980 · Post by **Dave1980** » May 2nd, 2005, 11:25 am

I'm not using any of them 2 and I have the same problem

(sorry for the doble post, autocopy extension's fault)

Terry Ann · Post by **Terry Ann** » May 2nd, 2005, 11:28 am

Okay, for those of us who don't know how to disable those, could you give a few more specific instructions? Thanks!

stinkyass · Post by **stinkyass** » May 2nd, 2005, 12:22 pm

phewww i thought i was gonna have to use IE5 again

THANKS

AmboyGuy · Post by **AmboyGuy** » May 2nd, 2005, 12:41 pm

Terry Ann ; tools > Extensions --- right click on the extension and click disable.

ChewyBass · Post by **ChewyBass** » May 2nd, 2005, 12:51 pm

My problem began after installing the Switchproxy extension. As soon as I uninstalled the extension FF returned to normal behavior. Abviously there must be a bug in the software.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » May 2nd, 2005, 12:57 pm

Hi, im also having probs with FF, i tried to uninstall Agent Switcher, says it will be uninstalled the next time i restart FF....but, its been saying that for a couple of hours....been restarted lots of times...

also, when i rt click on it, the disable option is greyed out...presumably cos its half uninstalled...

help..!!

hellene · Post by **hellene** » May 2nd, 2005, 2:45 pm

Guest, try restarting firefox in Firefox safe mode and seeing if you can uninstall or disable it from there.

If that fails, a slightly more drastic solution is to try deleting the 'extensions' and 'chrome' subfolders in your profile folder (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folde ... _folder.3F)
That will manually delete all themes and extensions. All the rest of your settings will be kept.

hellene · Post by **hellene** » May 2nd, 2005, 2:47 pm

ChewyBass wrote:My problem began after installing the Switchproxy extension. As soon as I uninstalled the extension FF returned to normal behavior. Abviously there must be a bug in the software.

The bug is allegedly in Switchproxy's own autoupdate feature (not the firefox autoupdate) which snarfs when it tries contacting the developer's website. Others have however reported that disabling this feature does not cure the problem, and only uninstalling works.

FireFox freezing on when executed?

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