Firefox keeps freezing up

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Its really driving me mad tbh. Every minute of two, firefox is freezing and reading "not responding" in the top bar. Iv un-installed firefox 6 and reinstalled windows 7 beta but still having the same trouble. What could be wrong?

The extensions im using are Adblock plus and British English Dictionary

And my plug ins



Really would appreciate some help please.

Adyx

I'd start by disabling all plugins and extensions and trying it. Then enable each extension/plugin one by one and trying it each time.

yoyo

It could be something wrong with your profile, try reverting all to default (note this will remove your favourites etc so make sure you back them up), this will reset firefox to "factory defaults". Just tick all 5 boxes and choose "make changes and restart", instructions here

Nick

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No luck lads

Im thinking it could be this



that "places.sqlite.corrupt

JonathanAnon

I was actually gonna post something similar.. Firefox ties up every few minutes... I'm in the process of just abandoning it for Google Chrome, but I would be interested to see which plugin is causing the problem..

yoyo

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was actually gonna post something similar.. Firefox ties up every few minutes... I'm in the process of just abandoning it for Google Chrome, but I would be interested to see which plugin is causing the problem..

Did you reset your profile, if the places is corrupt it probably would cause problems with firefox, thats the database your history is stored in, worth a shot anyways

Nick

yoyo

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was actually gonna post something similar.. Firefox ties up every few minutes... I'm in the process of just abandoning it for Google Chrome, but I would be interested to see which plugin is causing the problem..

If you want to change use either Chromium or SRIron. Based on Chrome and not spyware

Nick

fenris

Same problem here - looks like firefox is the new IE6 in terms of bloat and hogging memory.

Checking out SR Iron - how do you think it compares to opera?

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Iv given up tbh

disabled all extentsions and plugins and nothing seems to work

wtf is wrong id love to know. It was working grand 2 weeks back

yoyo

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Iv given up tbh

disabled all extentsions and plugins and nothing seems to work

wtf is wrong id love to know. It was working grand 2 weeks back

Did you reset the profile? This may be a profile problem-not extensions related

Checking out SR Iron - how do you think it compares to opera?

Better than Opera, as it supports Google Chromes extensions engine, still not mad keen on Chrome though, personal opinions and all that, try wipe the firefox profile, see how it goes, instructions in my above post, fwiw Chrome becomes a memory hog with extensions also, just a tradeoff for the benefits

Nick

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yoyo wrote: »

Did you reset the profile? This may be a profile problem-not extensions related



Nick

Yes Yoyo but no luck

By any chance do you think it could be what im backing up into mozbackup is the problem?

yoyo

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Yes Yoyo but no luck

By any chance do you think it could be what im backing up into mozbackup is the problem?

The places.sqlite being corrupt is not a good sign, what I would do is go to run (On XP Start>Run/Vista/7 Windows key & R) and type %appdata%>Mozilla>Firefox>Profiles>randomstring.default, open this folder up (make sure ff is fully closed) and delete its contents, go back in and start fresh, certainly freezing like that on a new profile isn't "normal". I don't use mozbackup to backup my profile, I do it manually always so have no expierience with the tool, if you copy this .default folder to your desktop, youve made a backup!

Nick

Galway K9

Still beats chrome!

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yoyo wrote: »

The places.sqlite being corrupt is not a good sign, what I would do is go to run (On XP Start>Run/Vista/7 Windows key & R) and type %appdata%>Mozilla>Firefox>Profiles>randomstring.default, open this folder up (make sure ff is fully closed) and delete its contents, go back in and start fresh, certainly freezing like that on a new profile isn't "normal". I don't use mozbackup to backup my profile, I do it manually always so have no expierience with the tool, if you copy this .default folder to your desktop, youve made a backup!

Nick

Thanks for the help Nick but no luck

yoyo

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Thanks for the help Nick but no luck

One last thing you could try here. Really is a strange one

Nick

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Im really sad that I have to leave firefox, nothing seems to work

And I what I dont understand it's the same trouble in firefox 7 beta :(

cherryghost

Google Chrome is your answer :pac: I gave up on it tbh

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cherryghost wrote: »

Google Chrome is your answer :pac: I gave up on it tbh

Yes iv joined the darkside

Some day ill find out what was wrong with firefox, wonder is it even my computer, who knows ?