Windows 7 Problems

sheldonlg

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Jan 6, 2010, 2:48:53 PM1/6/10

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I upgraded my system to Windows 7. Now I get frequent situations where
Firefox (and less so Thunderbird) is not responding. It goes into that
translucent state and stays there. I have to kill the app and restart.

It also seems to take much longer to start up while other apps are
faster with Windows 7.

I am using FF 3.5.7. My Windows 7 is not an upgrade from anything. It
is a fresh initial install of Windows 7 Professional.

My system is a Dell Vostro with 4MB ram.

clarjon1

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Jan 6, 2010, 3:02:56 PM1/6/10

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I hope you mean 4GB... 4 MB i remember using 15 years ago... it was a LOT
then, lol

sheldonlg

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Jan 6, 2010, 4:07:58 PM1/6/10

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Oops.

clarjon1

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Jan 6, 2010, 4:19:41 PM1/6/10

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> But with all seriousness, I often have problems with my firefox, acting
similar to that. Here's what I do:
I completely clear my history, and cache. That includes the URL bar history,
etc. It's amazing the performance boost that gives! Hope that helps

Tarkus

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Jan 6, 2010, 4:32:13 PM1/6/10

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On 1/6/2010 11:48 AM, sheldonlg wrote:
> I upgraded my system to Windows 7. Now I get frequent situations where
> Firefox (and less so Thunderbird) is not responding. It goes into that
> translucent state and stays there. I have to kill the app and restart.

I've always gotten the "Not Responding" message occasionally from both
Mozilla apps, regardless of my OS or computer. But it usually only
lasts a few to several seconds, and I've rarely had to kill the process.
In the case of FF, it often seems to be caused by some Javascript
going on, including Greasemonkey, which I use a lot. That and trying to
load many Tabs at once, causing the CPU to max out, at least briefly.

David McRitchie

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Jan 6, 2010, 4:52:57 PM1/6/10

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"clarjon1" <clar...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1477.126281278...@lists.mozilla.org...

Clearing cache and download history when you close Firefox would help.
Clearing your usage history is not likely to help and would impair your
use of the awesomebar (location bar autocomplete) for several weeks.

History and bookmarks are stored in places.sqlite and wouldn't expect
either to have problems which may have occurred in the past.

Use the File, exit to close Firefox. Expect that occasionally you will have
to terminate Firefox through the Process tab of the Windows Task Manager
Ctrl+Shift+Esc

If you just want to close Firefox and Restart the best way is to let Firefox bring
itself down and reschedule itself by installing and using the
"QuickRestart" extension has a keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+R
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/3559

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HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

Bernie

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Jan 6, 2010, 6:22:32 PM1/6/10

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I've experienced the problem too, with Firefox 3.5.6. I discovered that
disabling the Update Scanner add-on almost completely eliminates the
problem. Pity, because I find that add-on useful.

When Firefox is not responding the Windows task manager tells me that
CPU utilization is 100%. Eventually whatever is going on does finish,
CPU utilization returns to normal and Firefox responds as usual.

Ron Hunter

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Jan 6, 2010, 6:35:18 PM1/6/10

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On 1/6/2010 1:48 PM, sheldonlg wrote:

I am not seeing that problem with Windows 7 64 bit. FF runs great, TB3
is buggy, but doesn't crash.

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