kingdingeling Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 Right, so this is the first time I have ever had problems with Firefox, but it's majorly . me off! I run the newest FF, 3.5.3 or whatever it is, and when I visit certain websites (aka Facebook in this case), the CPU usage goes to 50% (takes up one whole core) and it'll be dog slow for a minute and then crash. This is not exclusive to facebook, if I run FF for a while, like not closing it and opening and closing tabs here and there, it'll also be dog slow and eventually crash. But that's not all, even after I got the FF window to close, it'll keep running in the background and eat one whole core the whole time. I get an error message that says "Firefox is already running but not responsing, kill the process or reboot" when I want to start Firefox again. What the hell is going on and how do I fix this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire_storm Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 I've had similar problems like it before it usually turned out to be something wrong with java, flash, or shock wave plug ins. Download the latest version of java, flash and shock wave and see if that helps. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted September 13, 2009 Posted September 13, 2009 Still does the same thing... it's getting really annoying! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suedenim Posted September 14, 2009 Posted September 14, 2009 If you have any addons disable all of them and see how things work out. If FF is fine then start to enable the addons you really need/want one at a time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper Threaded Posted September 14, 2009 Posted September 14, 2009 Try clearing your cache and cookies. When they build up over time, they can really bog FF down. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted September 14, 2009 Posted September 14, 2009 The Adobe plugin does that to my work machine. I uninstalled it and the mysterious crashes disappeared. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted September 14, 2009 Posted September 14, 2009 Java and/or Flash ads cause Fx CPU hogging on my Eee PC, so I just use AdBlock Plus and the problem went away I'm sure it's possible to solve my updating Java and/or Flash... I'd try uninstalling Fx and addons completely, then installing Fx, then Java/Flash... see how that goes... then one addon at a time Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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