Comments on: Firefox 2 freezes. The mistery resolved.

By: Ralf

Ralf — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:30:05 +0000

I'm going to try uninstalling Flash 9 and downgrade to Flash 8. Has anyone else tried that? I read about some problem with the Flash 9 plugin leading to freeze-up. Note, I don't have the Google toolbar and I have been having the entire system freeze-ups. The problem was reproducible with Firefox, Opera, and even Safari

By: MeToo

MeToo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:13:30 +0000

My Win2kSP2 machine was freezing in Explorer with Event ID 10010 (a DCOM issue). Followed the instructions at this page: http://www.monitorware.com/en/events/details.php?details_id=5151 and found it was Google Toolbar that was the issue. Removed Google Toolbar and all is well again.

By: dai

dai — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:44:14 +0000

For my case Coriolis preview and yahoo tool bars were devils.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:34:24 +0000

My computer was freezing in internet explorer. I removed google toolbar and worked great. no more freezes.

By: Bojan Milenkoski

Bojan Milenkoski — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:43:40 +0000

I had theese freezes everytime I open a page in a new tab or page loading in background. Searched for solutions for 2 months. Installed and uninstalled extensions nothing worked. Finally I got to uninstall plugins.

Reinstalled The Flash plugin and no more freezes now.

Check http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/uninstall.html for uninstalling plugins.

Hope this helps.

By: John Freeman

John Freeman — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:54:00 +0000

After a few months of Firefox behaving it seems the latest version (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11) has reintroduced the "freeze". Sigh… and no Google toolbar to blame. Same problems with work mate who has no extensions at all, so I don't think add ons are always the issue

By: Triny

Triny — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:57:09 +0000

Yes, that's true. I've spent hours trying to figure this out. The iGoogle page was frozen with the toolbar on.

Amazing.

By: Tristan Gordon

Tristan Gordon — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:25:33 +0000

I've been having this problem although with a PC, have followed your idea and removed all plugins apart from a dictionary. Seems to have done the trick.

By: Guy Tucker

Guy Tucker — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:49:40 +0000

Thank You!

This just saved my computer, and all my office furniture's lives. Google toolbar was the last add on I expected to be the culprit of this freezing/slowness, i was beginning to think about looking for a new browser, and i've even been using IE!

Web Developer, Fasterfox and Firebug all work flawlessly now, and I had gotten used to not having them incase they we're contributing to the problem!

Using Firefox 2.0.0.11.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:46:36 +0000

PS : In Firefox 2.0.0.1, Firefox crashed/froze all the time.

They are now on 2.0.1.0, and it now seldom crashes (assuming you were talking about version 2.0.0.1).

I recommend you give it another try, considering that it's been close to a year.