ALHOLK Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I have encountered a serious problem with Firefox 3.01. After a short while it becomes extremely sluggish. If I shut it down and then try to restart it I get a warning that it's already running. The taskmanager dispalays a 100% CPU load and the Firefox shows up in the process list but not in the application list. If I kill the process manually the computer works fine again. Has anyone encountered or heard of this problem or a similar one. I'm not sure if I have virus or trojan on my computer or if it's Firefox that is screwed. I'm posting this with MSIE. :onfire: regards ALHOLK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 It works fine for me ALHOLK. Occasionally I get a very minor version of your problem, especially if I have other things running, but it sorts itself out very quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 How much processor is Firefox taking? Could be a memory leak? but so far I am running OK on Firefox 3.0.1 Could be a virus eating your processor time? Check the processes running and see what process is using all the CPU time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaomaiminam Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Had similar problem on one of my XP Pro laptop. It did not occur on another XP, and not on Vista. Firefox 3.01 has been buggy as hell. The system crashes often when you have a lot of tabs open at once. This is a known problem but as yet no resolution. It was happening often enough that I considered going backlevel to Version 2. Sluggishness is also one of the issues being reported with FF 3.01 as well. It is lightning for a while and then has a significant slowdown as it assumes more resources. And no, I am not short on memory, it is a program issue, not a HW issue. I like FF, but personally, think 3.01 came out before its time. Hard to admit, but sometimes revert to IE (despite its slowness), just because it is more stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I am running XP Pro, with 1 Gb memory. No problems with Firefox. I leave the PC running and connected to the 'net for days, maybe weeks at a time, before a reboot and no issues. I am keeping 4 ~ 5 tabs open all the time and downloading from the 'net, sending emails with Outlook, etc. Maybe I just got lucky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaomaiminam Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Usually I run 11-15 tabs open. Crashes happen often when you backpage. Happens in both XP and Vista. Run XP with 2G, Vista with 4 Gb. Does not happen on my desktop, XP Pro with Media Center/3GB. Very annoying and documented FF 3.01 problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 That's a lot of open tabs! Try less tabs open, as 4 ~ 5 works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Must be that porn website you're visiting. Check to see if it is a specific web page that causes the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALHOLK Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Must be that porn website you're visiting. Check to see if it is a specific web page that causes the problem. No it happens on all web sites including this one. I'm running it on a Toshiba with 3 G memory and Vista Sp1. There is no indication of a memory leak. What happens is that Firefox will start OK but as soon as I open a website the CPU usage goes up to 100% and stays there. Just closing the application doesn't help. The Firefox process lives until I kill it maually. regards ALHOLK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Yes, I am having the same problem as well. Also, I can be reading/posting here, and the next thing I know, the annoying blue spinning ball starts up, the screen goes white, as if looking through wax paper, I can still see the page, but the screen is frozen...nothing move for several minutes. Then I have to shut the page, reopen Mozilla, and then restore the session...all pissing me off. I hate my NEw HP computer...it just refuses to run right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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