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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 03:48 AM
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I was wondering if those of you with Firefox has been experiencing the same issues as I have. Basically the browser would crash and just freeze out of nowhere. I know it's not my computer because I've been using Chrome for a little while and it's been running fine.

All of the Firefox add ons and the Firefox it self are up to date. Is this a bug that came with the new Firefox? I noticed it recently updated it self before I started experiencing the problem.

Anyone know why it's been effed up lately?
 

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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 08:45 AM
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that's weird. i used to use chrome until i discovered that it's adblocks suck and FF adblock is the greatest thing in the world. i haven't had any problems on my desktop but on my laptop i've had this problem a few times but it hasn't happened in a while. and yes my FF was updated a few days ago. try doing a reinstall
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 11:43 AM
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Yeah, FF has an amazing pop-up blocker. I never got any virus/spyware eversince I started using FF.

Chrome has been better in the past year tho. I remember there were some bugs when it first came out as it wouldn't allow scrolling up and down using the scroller/side pad.

I tried re-installing the FF just now. So far so good. We'll see if it will freeze on me anytime soon. Thanks for the tip!
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 01:44 PM
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which version of FF are you running, Krip?
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 06:20 PM
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Just running the latest one, 3.6.6. Did I do the wrong thing by keeping FF up to date?
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 09:04 PM
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I've been running with the latest and have had 0 issues!
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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I've had some issues. It won't freeze up, it will just leave me on a page, unable to do anything haha. It says that firefox is responding and running, fine, but I cannot click on anything/go anywhere/do anything until I restart my computer.

A new update came out last week that fixed it for me, though.

Good luck!
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by kriptonik
Just running the latest one, 3.6.6. Did I do the wrong thing by keeping FF up to date?
Not that I know of. I was just trying to maake sure you were runnin the latest.

Try disabling your add-ons, one at a time, and see if one of them is causing you problems.
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 10:31 PM
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The problem seems to be fixed after I reinstalled FF.

I thought it was one of the plug-ins (Java or Flash) so I tried to disable those and didn't help. Hopefully the problem is fixed by the simple reinstall.

Thanks for the help all!
 
Old Jul 7, 2010 | 11:13 PM
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asians FTW. say it krip, say it
 



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