Windows 7 64bit and Firefox problems

Henning

Henning

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I had been using Google Chrome for quite some time but had an issue with one of the yachting web boards (dockwalk.com) forums where the WYSI-whatever interface wouldn't come up on it. So I decided to use Firefox, which worked just fine under Vista Ultimate and Home. I got a new computer recently, a Sony Viao PCG 81114L (really like it, has a light up keyboard in the dark) CORE i7 CPU 1.60GHz, 6 gigs RAM running Windows 7 Pro 64bit.

I keep running into an issue where Firefox runs slow as dog doo. Even scrolling will be a jerky stop and start affair regardless of what method of scrolling I use, and this page may take a minute or longer to load. I'll look in the Task Manager at the Performance screen and have 15%+ CPU usage with the computer doing nothing, in the Processes, the only thing using anything will be Firefox. I can close FF and my CPU usage goes to next to nothing. Some times on re openning it it will be fine for a while, sometimes it reopens as screwed up as when I shut it down. I noticed under Processes it lists firefox.exe*32. I thought maybe I had downloaded the wrong version, but I'm not finding any other version to download than the 3.6. Anybody have a clue?
 
Do you have any extensions installed? Usually Firefox issues can be traced to an extension or plugin. Try making a new profile -- see if that helps. If you google 64 bit Firefox you'll find some people that do build it in 64 bit form. I don't think Mozilla releases their builds that way though. The issue likely has nothing to do with it being 32 or 64 bit.
 
jesse said:
Do you have any extensions installed? Usually Firefox issues can be traced to an extension or plugin. Try making a new profile -- see if that helps. If you google 64 bit Firefox you'll find some people that do build it in 64 bit form. I don't think Mozilla releases their builds that way though. The issue likely has nothing to do with it being 32 or 64 bit.
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I tried uninstalling the Yahoo toolbar in the uninstall programs thing in control panel, but it's still here.
 
Found the plug in tools under FF and disabled the Yahoo ones, seems a lot better, we'll see how it holds out....
 
Well, it turned out to be the Shockwave Flash plugin, problem is, with it disabled, I end up with blank spots on a lot of websites. I used to have a major problem with shockwave crashing in Google Chrome as well. What's up with this? Why is such a pervasive application such a problem? Is this something like Linux where I have to be an Ubergeek to figure out how to make it work?
 
Henning said:
Well, it turned out to be the Shockwave Flash plugin, problem is, with it disabled, I end up with blank spots on a lot of websites. I used to have a major problem with shockwave crashing in Google Chrome as well. What's up with this? Why is such a pervasive application such a problem? Is this something like Linux where I have to be an Ubergeek to figure out how to make it work?
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Is it the most recent version? I know there have been several security updates to the Flash player recently. Maybe completely uninstalling and reinstalling it would help.

-Rich
 
Henning said:
I keep running into an issue where Firefox runs slow as dog doo. Even scrolling will be a jerky stop and start affair regardless of what method of scrolling I use, and this page may take a minute or longer to load.
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Interesting. That just happened to me 30 minutes ago. I closed FF then restarted it and it seems to be working OK now. I am also running Windows 7 64 bit.
 
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