100% CPU Use and freezes again
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some time now.
Yesterday it updated itself to v 3.5.5 and things seem to have gone wrong
right away.
Now FF hangs on the save dialog box whether it is saving the page or any
graphic.
Also FF hangs whenever transitioning to media-rich sites as www.msnbc.com.
Scrolling pages with graphics on it now is achieved in slow and halting bits
and spuirts.
Disabled all add-ons - no change in behavior.
Uninstalled v3.5.5 and reinstalled v3.5.4 - surprisingly no change still.
Every time the ZCPU use climbs to 100%.
The hangs last from a random ten seconds to that many minutes or so.
I am at a loss to understand where the problem lies.
Regards and TIA for any insights.
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My configuration:
Generated: Sat Nov 07 2009 12:50:23 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5)
Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build ID: 20091102152451
Enabled Extensions: [14]
- Adblock Plus 1.1.1: http://adblockplus.org/ - Ads were yesterday!
- CookieCuller 1.3.1: http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/ - Extended Cookie
Manager--protect/unprotect selected cookies
- DownloadHelper 4.6.4: http://www.downloadhelper.net - Download videos and
images from many sites
- FEBE 6.3: http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions - Backup your
Firefox data
- FirefoxView 1.0: http://www.iosart.com/firefox/firefoxview/ - View pages
and links loaded into IE in Firefox
- IE View 1.4.5: http://ieview.mozdev.org/ - Open pages in IE via Firefox
menus
- Java Console 6.0.16:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20Java%20Console
- Menu Editor 1.2.6: http://menueditor.mozdev.org/ - Customize application
menus
- MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.3.4: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/ - MR Tech
Toolkit power tools for all users. (en-US)
- NoScript 1.9.9.14: http://noscript.net - Extra protection for your
Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for
trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This
whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of
security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of
functionality. Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)
- Password Exporter 1.2: http://passwordexporter.fligtar.com - Export and
import your saved passwords.
- Print/Print Preview 0.6: http://www.splintered.co.uk/ - Replace the
default "Print" button with the Mozilla Suite style "Print/Print Preview"
toolbar button/menu, with additional "Page setup" option. Adds new options
to context menu as well.
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.2: http://tmp.garyr.net - Tab browsing with an added
boost.
- UnMHT 5.4.0: http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html - UnMHT allows you
to view MHT (MHTML) web archive format files, and save complete web pages,
including text and graphics, into a single MHT file.
Disabled Extensions: [1]
- Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.1: http://www.windowsclient.net/ -
Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET versions to
the web server.
Total Extensions: 15
Installed Themes: [1]
- Default: http://www.mozilla.org/
Installed Plugins: (13)
- Java Deployment Toolkit 6.0.160.1: npdeploytk.dll
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U16: npjp2.dll
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_16 for Mozilla browsers
- Microsoft� DRM: npdrmv2.dll
- DRM Netscape Network Object
- Microsoft� DRM: npwmsdrm.dll
- DRM Store Netscape Plugin
- Microsoft� Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin: np-mswmp.dll
- np-mswmp
- Mozilla Default Plug-in: npnul32.dll
- Default Plug-in
- RealPlayer Version Plugin: nprpjplug.dll
- 6.0.12.448
- RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit) : nppl3260.dll
- RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
- Shockwave Flash: NPSWF32.dll
- Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
- Shockwave for Director: np32dsw.dll
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5
- Silverlight Plug-In: npctrl.dll
- 3.0.40723.0
- Veoh Web Player Beta: npWebPlayerVideoPluginATL.dll
- Veoh Web Video Player Browser Plugin
- Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library: npdsplay.dll
- Npdsplay dll
propman
> Disabled all add-ons - no change in behavior.
> Uninstalled v3.5.5 and reinstalled v3.5.4 - surprisingly no change still.
> Every time the ZCPU use climbs to 100%.
> The hangs last from a random ten seconds to that many minutes or so.
> I am at a loss to understand where the problem lies.
> Regards and TIA for any insights.
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Might want to try cleaning out your cache, temp files etc. FWIW, I use
CCleaner for this:
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"propman" <pro...@nowhere.ca> wrote in message
news:OJ6dnaq0wsSfZGjX...@mozilla.org...
Thanks for the response. Actually I already run CCleaner 2.25 a few times
daily! Also, the cache folders for FF are included in its customized folder
list!
This really is a puzzler!
Regards.
:-)
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