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firefox problems, anyone else?
just recently my pc has been shutting down overnight, I assumed it was updating and restarting but, it’s been shutting itself off and regularly blue screening with an unhealthy regularity (unhealthy in the sense that i get irate and further annoy my already cracked ribs , and the pc is in danger of being launched out the door!).
i noticed that the only two things i’d updated or had updated since the pc came back from the shop was AVG (free) and firefox to 3.6 whatever the latest is). one of these was surely the problem, AVG was removed completely and re-installed, no change,
i started to use IE as my browser as firefox was playing up with cookies etc and following four blue screens within 90 mins this am i opened only IE, touch wood…. i’ve had no problems or blue screens in the last 2/5hrs,
anyone else noticed problems since installing the new firefox?
as it happens the pc is going back in tomorrow for a ram upgrade and to have two new 500gig hdd’s installed (back in a raid config), we thought it was one or the other so decided to replace both, now it might appear to be just the sorftware!
Hugh
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No problems with Firefox at all but then I’m on XP.
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i’m on xp too.
it’s done it since i made that post now, oh well, lets hope the new drives and ram sort it out. a whole day with no computer… what will i do? lol.
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My FF on my laptop freezes every 5 seconds or so for a few milliseconds.
Google Chrome is one fix
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As Dave – I got tired of FF doing stupid stuff….and IE taking f o r e v e r to do anything
Google chrome all the way now…
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Since I’ve updated few weeks ago it can’t find pages, I have to reload nearly every page so I’m switching to Safari for now.
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i run the three browsers just so i can keep tabs on how the site performs with each. i tend to stick with firefox but for the past few days its hanging when opening and pages are loading slow. so ive been jumping back and forward with google chrome, i like its simplicity and fast browsing but some things i dont… in general a good fast browser.
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I like FF but I reckon its getting too bloated doing stuff behind the scenes.
There are a few tweaks that are simple to do to speed it up just google and it shows you what to do, definitely speeds it up. -
i posted the tweeks on here once, not sure if here or in the off topic section, if the latter they’ll not show up on a search (i think).
well, the pc was booked in for today to have new ram and upgrade to two new 500g drives in a raid config, yesterday it got so bad that i was having to save work every couple of mins in case it blue screened again, then after three hours of behaving it simply shut off with no warning and restarted, time and again it did it, then eventually while looking at something i could hear a short / fizzing electical sound, new power supply fitted today, 6hrs of hard bench testing and it’s been fine! still upgrading the drives but gonna see how we go with the existing ram for now,
firefox… all is forgiven! i’d forgotten how much faster than IE it is, been using IE most the afternoon as i’ve been reloading all my software and progs i’m used too, onto a cheap refurbed tower i plan to keep as a back-up, it’s coping with most tasks fine (2.6g celeron and only 512 ram) but i now realise just how fast my normal 2600 quad core is!
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if your cpu is overheating that will cause blue screen/shutdown, i had a month or so of blue screens and it was doing my head in, noticed loads of dust/crap in the heat sink fan etc, put me compressor to it and jeez iv never seen so much dust blown out 😮 also blew the power supply out and again just loads of dust, been running mint since 😛
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quote Alan Wharton:if your cpu is overheating that will cause blue screen/shutdown, i had a month or so of blue screens and it was doing my head in, noticed loads of dust/crap in the heat sink fan etc, put me compressor to it and jeez iv never seen so much dust blown out 😮 also blew the power supply out and again just loads of dust, been running mint since 😛
Hi Alan,
all is sorted now, turns out that the power supply was failing, we removed all data from the 250gig (one of the two original disks) and rebuilt the hd with the new data, turns out it was likely the operating system causing probs on that disk, now it’s just a spare back-up to the two 500gig raid configured drives.
i’m still having the occasional go slow -milliseconds usually (we didn’t upgrade the ram in the end), having to use ie for hotmail / ebay all the time now, ff just keeps messing about with it because i think it’s confusing the cookies for the separate accounts, i was trying to sell with my personal eay account and it would log me into my business account without me noticing, vice versa, and hotmail (linked accounts) was playing up too, I now have both ebay accounts open on different browsers and ie for hotmail.
pretty certain the cpu’s were fine, has a massive fan and top end gold heatsinks to cool them.
cheers,
Hugh
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