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What keeps locking down firefox every 5 minutes, Firefox goes to not responding and the little blue circle spins for several minutes.

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I updated or upgraded Firefox to version 6, then I noticed that firefox has started locking down every 5 to 10 minutes, What happens is it get unresponsive then the blue busy icon starts spinning for several minutes, if I click the mouse button the screen goes light white and not responding is at the top. I have check to see if all the plug ins are up to date and they are. I have disabled the addons and its still doing it. Its like something is running every few minutes and locking everything down.

I updated or upgraded Firefox to version 6, then I noticed that firefox has started locking down every 5 to 10 minutes, What happens is it get unresponsive then the blue busy icon starts spinning for several minutes, if I click the mouse button the screen goes light white and not responding is at the top. I have check to see if all the plug ins are up to date and they are. I have disabled the addons and its still doing it. Its like something is running every few minutes and locking everything down.

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Firefox sucks BIG TIME

Modified by BIZBH

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Emotional opinion or troll. Neither is helpful to the community.

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So how do you fix this problem? Really starting to piss me off!!!