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Firefox locks up tighter than a frogs...

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Sinster
Sinster
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I let you fill in the blank..

I can't do a single thing in FF. If I click on a link, icon, or enter an address it locks and I get "Not Responding" . After numerous times of getting this. I finally received a screen about resetting FF, but that locked when I selected to reset. I have rebooted and uninstalled and installed. It worked fine last night, but this morning not so much.

I let you fill in the blank.. I can't do a single thing in FF. If I click on a link, icon, or enter an address it locks and I get "Not Responding" . After numerous times of getting this. I finally received a screen about resetting FF, but that locked when I selected to reset. I have rebooted and uninstalled and installed. It worked fine last night, but this morning not so much.

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finitarry
finitarry
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-responding

And if that does not work:

Modified by finitarry

FredMcD
FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode;

Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.

Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?

Carm
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@Sinster

What websites do you notice this happening ?

Chances are is a plugin, i put my money on flash.

So you say that you uninstalled Firefox, then re-installed it. Worked fine for awhile? So let me guess after the uninstall and re-install the problem worked upon first launch, but after closing and re-opening it it started freezing?

Let me know plz

Sinster
Sinster Question owner
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No websites. The start page which is the default start page.

No I wasn't able to browse once un-installed and reinstalled it still froze up on the start page.

Also a lot of these solutions require to select the menu and I'm not able to do that because it locks up.

FredMcD
FredMcD
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift (Mac Options) > key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?