Anybody else having firefox issues lately?

In My Humble Opinion
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For the past three weeks it seems like Firefox spends more time hung then doing what it is supposed to. Some times a 20 second wait, then back to normal for a minute, then hangs again.

Other times it hangs for a good 2-3 minutes, then asks if I want to abort an unresponsive script, which works for 10 minutes or so.

I have run every spyware,and anti-bastard program I have, but they find nothing. I have no unexpected add-ons or plug ins, at least that show up normally. It seems like a lot of it has to do with ads, nbcnews.com for example hangs on every single article several times.

Anybody else having issues lately? is it a bad firefox build, or are ad makers just making new overly-complex shit that my semi flaky connection can’t work with.

I am finally going to Chrome for now, but I don’t really want to abandon Ff yet.

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goto

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/topics/fix-problems?selectproduct=1

there are some things you can do to check and fix slowness and hangups.

i get that behavior too on some sites and not others leading to suggest site contents.

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Personally, I’d use Firefox Sync to save everything you need to keep, then do a complete uninstall/reinstall.

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OP, no idea of your OS, but I use Win7 64bit. I also was also quite displeased with Firefox’s latest dragging and other crap. Happened upon a different but similar browser for 64bit folk, called Waterfox. Seems exactly same in appearance/operation and all extensions I had for previous Firefox work fine still.

I am very glad to have installed it. It is Firefox, imho, but faster and no crashes/hang-ups since install a couple weeks ago.

Just saying, in case you have a 64bit OS. HTH

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I’ve had issues too. Some pages just open blank and other times they take for-ev-er to load.

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I’ve been using Pale Moon. It is Firefox with a few of the things that commonly cause slow-downs and hang-ups disabled.

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I’ve been having issues with Firefox as well. The only thing that helps (short of using a different browser) is to frequently clear all history and then restart it.

I’m going to give that Waterfox thing a try. Thanks, Ionizer.

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Speaking of which - Firefox used to have a spell check for when I would type here on the SDMB…but somehow this has gotten lost.

How can I get it to work again? (I am sure this is some simple little thing, but I can’t find it anywhere…)

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I have Firefox 18.0.1 installed on Win XP (32 bit) and Win 7 (64-bit).

Experiencing none of the problems up thread.

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I use it on Win7 64 bit, Ubuntu Linux, and a little bit on an old Pentium 4 with 512 Meg memory running XP. Version 18 throughout. No problems.

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I used to used Firefox all the time and switched over to Chrome due to Flash Player issues. Firefox still cant get it right it seems. Plus I have Windows Vista which probably doesn’t help matters much.

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If you right-click on any text entry box (like the one I’m typing this post in) you should see a “Check Spelling” option. Is it checked? Otherwise, you can find the setting under “Options” “Advanced” “General” in Firefox’s Options.

As to the OP, no problems at all with Firefox, and I usually run with two windows with well over 100 tabs open between the two.

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Hmm, now that you mention it, it has been doing that for me, but generally when there’s a possibly malicious banner ad on the site. Otherwise (yahoo, sdmb, etc.) it’s still flawless.

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Yep. That box is checked.
Still, I caan misssspell alll sortts of thinngs andd it jusst wonn’t corrrect anyythingg! Itt duz underlyne themm, buttt won’tt corrrect orr givve mee anye sugestions.