Firefox 7.0.1 hangs very often. What shall I do to stop this problem?
Since the last 3 or 4 updates of Firefox until 7.0.1, I've been experiencing frequent hanging of Firefox. When I open another tab, it works fine for a while. Then I close the tab and continue with my emails. But when I open another tab, suddenly the page won't load. It will either show the "spinning gray wheel" on the tab or I will be prompted to retry loading the page which does not do anything but continue displaying the retry window. So I close the tab and return to the main page and try to go about reading my emails, but Firefox won't continue. It will jus show the "spinning grey wheel" until I exit Firefox and re-launch it. When re-launched, Firefox will run as usual, but in a few minutes (sometimes in less than one minute, at times longer) it hangs again. It's very persistent that I sometimes won't bother using the internet because of this problem. Now my email is full... Please help me solve this problem. Thank you and more power!
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See firefox hangs and Websites show a spinning wheel and never finish loading note in particular the suggestion to reduce the number of connections from maybe 200+ to about 50
hi
i have same problem here firefox stop browsing any page every time... i don't know what exactly problem
first i think it's my connection problem but when i try IE the internet working fine
plz fix this problem urgently cuz im very tired from this big problem
note: i try fresh install for windows 7 ultimate sp1 and same problem here
i don't use any addon just flash player and idm addon also i don't change any configuration in firefox or connection options
Modified by extrapc
Follow the links, shown in blue, in my message above, they may help. If not it is probably best to start your own thread.
I have this issue, I have tried the random hangs support suggestions on here, and the about:config changing it to the default for previous versions to 30 from 256. I am still getting random hangs. The add-ons I have enabled from disabling all the others are plugins flash and silverlight both updated. Extensions AD-block plus and avg safe search, when I had nothing enabled at all it still hung randomly, so I'm fairly certain it is not one of those. Even one page with no extra tabs
Firefox 8 will be released in a few days, that I believe includes fixes for the connections number on Windows, and a problem related to the bookmarks database.
- meanwhile it may be worth trying the fix from this blog: http://blog.bonardo.net/2011/09/30/is-your-firefor-freezing-at-regular-intervals
- a more speculative and unofficial suggestion is to adjust the preference browser.sessionstore.interval as suggested by frankal based on http://www.techmynd.com/firefox-freezes-for-a-moment-after-every-10-sec-fix/
(In my opinion unlikely to do any harm, and easily reversible so worth a try)
Another suggestion, not as a workaround, but as a means of demonstrating part of the cause is to use the error console to log CC & GC collections. The procedure for changing the preference is as above.
If you turn on javascript.options.mem.log in about:config you can see when GCs and CCs occur and how long they take, which is helpful for diagnosis.
No need to leave that on for long, just look for collections exceeding a second i.e. >1000ms if you see that you have a problem.