Experiencing any problems with FireFox?

Been having problems with FireFox lately. It’s been freezing and it’s very erratic. Not sure why but it just does that when ever I load pages. Then it just stops responding. I usually had to end the application and process in task manager before I can fire it up again.

I checked for updates and there was none.

When that happens, I often switch to my second browser of choice — Flock. If only Flock had the same extension features like FireFox, I might be using it more often.

Good thing I have the session saver extension installed in FireFox so I am able to restore the pages/sites I left off when I closed Firefox. Maybe I need to re-install this baby.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

42 Comments

Manuel Viloria says:

19 years ago

My FF freezes up after I listen (one after the other) to about 4 podcasts loaded in separate tabs. If I just listen to a couple and just do plain surfing, it does not hang.
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Jaypee says:

19 years ago

me too, i’ve been having that same kind of problem lately..i’d open several sites in different tabs and then suddenly it would say page error or something then i would have to refresh the tabs or close it..when this happens i also go to my Flock browser..hehe :)
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Koko says:

19 years ago

Weird mine too. This started I think when I upgraded to the 1.5 version. When I used the .8 or .7 (I think), it used to be more reliable.
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vance says:

19 years ago

try this for flock extensions http://extend.flock.com/
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

Firefox 1.5 still have some memory leak issues with it. If only I could revert back to 1.07. :(
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Jaypee says:

19 years ago

yeah, i still don’t want to move to Firefox 1.5..would it work if you uninstall your current Firefox and then use an old installer like let’s say, Firefox 1.0.7 and use that? coz i still have the installer for that in my files.
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Zatanico says:

19 years ago

NOPE,I think FIREFOX is the safest browser at the moment,no pop-ups,no ACTIVE X blah blah blah,no
SPYWARE,yun nga lang may mga sites na hindi ka pwedeng makapasok,take for example LIVE365.com(10,000 plus radio stations,all genres)…Sa IE ok sya pero di ko malaman kung bakit ayaw mag-open sa FIREFOX,And by the way,sa mga baguhan,kung balak nyong gamitin ang INTERNET EXPLORER for heavy surfing,think twice,in a matter of hours,tadtad na ng Adware at Spyware ang system n’yo,similar sa isang ricefield na dinapuhan ng maraming grasshoppers,can u imagine?
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Alex Moon says:

19 years ago

Firefox 1.5.0.7 just installed this a.m. and now having trouble resolvings various URLs. Firefox is REVERSING / separators with \ … weird!!!

No other browser does this. MSIE works fine. Opera works fine.

What in the world is causing Firefox to REVERSE / symbols to \ in URL addresses?
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Robin Jacobs says:

19 years ago

I have a problem with firefox.

I can’t open the browser. When I click on it I get a message that reads: “Firefox is already running but is not responding. To open a new window you must first close the existing firefox process, or restart your system.”

I’ve tried re-starting the computer and reinstalling firefox but neither has helped. Can someone please help me?

Thanks,

Robin
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

Robin,

Please Ctrl+ Alt+ Del. Go to processes tab and select the Firefox process and End Process.
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