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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: SilverZ06 on December 29, 2013, 08:12:58 AM
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Lately I've been noticing Firefox running rather slowly and freezing up on me quite a bit. I never used to have problems with FF until semi recently (last couple months or so.) I was beginning to think it may just be my computer freezing but I could open Google chrome and get to where I was trying to go in no time at all. It even seems like YouTube videos freeze more and take forever to load on FF. The same video plays flawlessly on Chrome. Is FF going down hill or is there a setting I may have wrong somewhere? Is anyone else experiencing anything similar with FF? FF has been my go to browser for years but I'm getting tired of all the freezes and crashes.
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Lately I've been noticing Firefox running rather slowly and freezing up on me quite a bit. I never used to have problems with FF until semi recently (last couple months or so.) I was beginning to think it may just be my computer freezing but I could open Google chrome and get to where I was trying to go in no time at all. It even seems like YouTube videos freeze more and take forever to load on FF. The same video plays flawlessly on Chrome. Is FF going down hill or is there a setting I may have wrong somewhere? Is anyone else experiencing anything similar with FF? FF has been my go to browser for years but I'm getting tired of all the freezes and crashes.
Yes firefox is getting bloated unfortunately. You can fix some of it by running adblock or noscript which will stop all the flash crap from running. Youtube videos have problems due to flash, it seems all those security updates have affected performance. Chrome uses their own built in and tweaked implementation of flash.
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If you like Firefox, there's a couple things you might want to try. The first one is obvious: Reset. How? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems#w_how-do-i-reset-firefox-to-its-default-state (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems#w_how-do-i-reset-firefox-to-its-default-state)
Next check that all of your add-ons and extensions are up-to-date. Remove those you don't really need. Toolbars and search engines with funny names can cause issues even when not in use.
Third: Get PaleMoon. It's a version of Firefox with all the familiarity but less bloat. http://www.palemoon.org/ (http://www.palemoon.org/)
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Have to second the Pale Moon recommendation, swicthed to it several months ago and never looked back. Another setting in FireFox I played with before the switch which seemed to help is to set a limit on the amount of browser cache.
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silver, i remember somebody else reporting this a few months ago and he found out his browser had been hijacked. there's no reason why firefox should freeze all of a sudden. I understand all the problems with youtube as I also had them. specially with my adblock and noscrip.
I think before you switch to palemoon you should make sure that your browser isnt hijacked. it could possible transfer it to palemoon.
semp
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Today was the first time my Firefox messed up,, wouldn't let me on you tube or Facebook ,, on two different computers ,,, my iPad even acted up a bit tho and it's not got Firefox on it,,,, I'll try the reset later. When I get back on them
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I just reset my firefox. I will see if that fixes the problems. If not I guess I'll give Palemoon a try. Thanks guys :salute :cheers:
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I think Firefox is messed up,, mine updated on the 27th,, now it doesn't recognize some sites as safe, then says my provider needs info?,, Pale moon rides on Firefox ,,, Used to be one called nightly ,, I'll have to look it up.
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I think Firefox is messed up,, mine updated on the 27th,, now it doesn't recognize some sites as safe, then says my provider needs info?,, Pale moon rides on Firefox ,,, Used to be one called nightly ,, I'll have to look it up.
Firefox works normally at least for me but I'm on OSX.
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I've used it for years with no problem, until now!
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I've used it for years with no problem, until now!
Recently installed windows updates? :)
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Recently installed windows updates? :)
yes. It looks like an update around the same time as problems started ,, no biggie,, I don't need to surf with it,,, but both my win 7 computers are doing the exact same thing, I pad works fine tho! It'll all work out I bet!
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Microsoft decided its time to endorse the new IE 11 a bit, lets pork the competition :devil
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BTW. It wasn't Firefox on my end,,, my provider said I went over this month! First time in 8 years,, no charge tho,they're gonna let it slide this time,,,,,,, and two more times,,,, then they'll charge me!
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i installed it and now certain word are double underlined and when you mouse over them they show up and advertisement i got the adblock plus thing but it still does it anyone else have this problem my AVG scan every other day so i dont think i have a virus
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Since I had to do a fresh install on a new hard drive, I skipped firefox and went straight to palemoon. Love it so far! :cheers:
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just installed palemoon and the problem is gone
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i installed it and now certain word are double underlined and when you mouse over them they show up and advertisement i got the adblock plus thing but it still does it anyone else have this problem my AVG scan every other day so i dont think i have a virus
not a virus, but malware. Check out this free on-line scanner
http://www.eset.com/int/home/products/online-scanner/
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Old PC = I ran FF and then PaleMoon.
New PC = Chrome.
A buddy at work is going to come over and help me get Linux going.
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not a virus, but malware. Check out this free on-line scanner
http://www.eset.com/int/home/products/online-scanner/
An excellent tool, but remember to check both the Potentially unwanted and Potentially harmful in the Advanced options to get rid of that kind of adware. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is another good tool for those, but again, the "potentially unwanted programs" don't automatically get removed (although they're shown with a checkbox) without tinkering the settings a little.
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not a virus, but malware. Check out this free on-line scanner
http://www.eset.com/int/home/products/online-scanner/
i dont know much at all about a computer but this did not happen on chrome, internet explorer,or pale moon only firefox so that makes me wonder if it was not just firefox my PC is only about 2 months old now and i dont really do anything but play games i dont know why i would have malware i dont know what malware is i have AVG the paid version so should'nt it pick up on stuff like that again i dont know thanks for helping me :salute
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i dont know much at all about a computer but this did not happen on chrome, internet explorer,or pale moon only firefox so that makes me wonder if it was not just firefox my PC is only about 2 months old now and i dont really do anything but play games i dont know why i would have malware i dont know what malware is i have AVG the paid version so should'nt it pick up on stuff like that again i dont know thanks for helping me :salute
Anytime your computer is connected to the internet it is at risk. How big a risk depends on your browsing habits. AVG and Nortons are pretty much the worst virus protect programs out there. It "might" pick up some stuff, but no program picks up everything. The eset link I gave you is a good place to star as well as the suggestion Bizman said about Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
Click on the link then at the site click on the big blue button that says "Run ESET On-line Scanner". It is pretty much automatic after that.
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this did not happen on chrome, internet explorer,or pale moon only firefox so that makes me wonder if it was not just firefox http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ware#Derived_terms_2- - - i dont know what malware is
Let's start with some terminology:
- -ware, suffix used to describe types of computer components, like in hardware, software and the following subspecies of software
- Malware is anything that can harm your computing experience, covering viruses, adware, crapware, greyware, spyware and whatnot.
- Adware, as the name suggests, is something that will make you see marketing related things like underlined words, popups and strange search results
- Crapware may not be a threat, but it won't work as supposed
- Greyware is something you don't necessarily have the rights to possess
- Spyware is something that collects and resends information about you. Connected with adware it can be used to determine what kinds of ads would interest you. In a more dangerous form it can sniff your passwords and credit card data.
Wiktionary has quite a comprehensive list about -wares: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ware#Derived_terms_2 (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ware#Derived_terms_2)
To your question about why only Firefox was affected... One reason is that browser add-ons don't usually inherit, meaning that if you have some add-on installed in one browser and you install another browser, the new one will be clean. Viruses are another matter, they will spread all over of your computer.
The reason why AVG and most other anti-virus programs don't notice many kinds of malware is that most of them aren't viruses. Actually Norton was some years ago threatened by a lawsuit unless they dropped their adware protection down, because preventing ads to show would have a negative affect to the income of the advertisers!
Actually, you might have some kind of adware already preinstalled in a new brand computer! And you may get some more just by updating some software unless you carefully uncheck their optional offers.