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"Firefox Not Responding" frequently pops up in the header bar and stops browsing.

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JohnR3
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Regardless of what website I may be on or while looking at email my cursor will freeze in position. If I click on it then the hour glass symbol appears and at the same time the header bar with the Firefox logo pops up the phrase "Firefox Not Responding". If I wait several seconds the cursor again becomes moveable and the header bar phrase disappears.

Regardless of what website I may be on or while looking at email my cursor will freeze in position. If I click on it then the hour glass symbol appears and at the same time the header bar with the Firefox logo pops up the phrase "Firefox Not Responding". If I wait several seconds the cursor again becomes moveable and the header bar phrase disappears.

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cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

The default of the pref network.http.max-connections has been increased from 30 to 256 in Firefox 6+ versions.

You can try to decrease the value of the pref network.http.max-connections from 255 to a more modest setting like 30 as used in Firefox 3 versions.