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| 731771 | 2008-12-22 06:26:00 | Hi All, For the past week I have had a persistent lock up problem on Firefox 3 and also Chrome after about a hour of surfing Firefox that I mainly use just shows "stopped" on the status panel. Sometimes I can carry on using Chrome but then that will lock up too. The only way I can fix this is to do a restart, then it runs fine again untill the problem comes back I have cleared history from Firefox and deleted most addons apart from WOT When I do a restart often the restart happens straight away , other times it waits for 3 mins before activating Also other programs like Google Earth sometimes work after the browser lock up, sometimes not Major changes to my Vista computer recently, updated from 1 gig RAM to 3 gig 4 weeks ago, updated Zone Alarm free about a week ago , updated Flash about a week ago Any ideas ? Thanks |
Paul Camford (10007) | ||
| 731772 | 2008-12-22 06:39:00 | Done any malware scans? | gary67 (56) | ||
| 731773 | 2008-12-22 07:57:00 | If you set a system restore point then you could try that. or uninstall Flash, which could cause the problem, maybe? does it lock up when you view flash in your browser? this might be something: www.ubuntugeek.com but it's on linux, i think.... |
twentynine (14421) | ||
| 731774 | 2008-12-22 09:51:00 | Wow, that took a while Just done full scans with PC Tools ThreatFire and Avast Nothing found Gary, is there any particular reason you mentioned malware ? I have suspected Flash, a while back my computer would sometimes crash crash when visiting YouTube , then it come right for no particular reason I know off, and now this problem I will have a go at uninstalling Flash and then reinstall in the morning |
Paul Camford (10007) | ||
| 731775 | 2008-12-22 17:41:00 | No but often it's the first thing I try if I don't know why a system is playing up just to rule it out as malware can do that | gary67 (56) | ||
| 731776 | 2008-12-22 19:59:00 | Hi All, For the past week I have had a persistent lock up problem on Firefox 3 and also Chrome after about a hour of surfing Firefox that I mainly use just shows "stopped" on the status panel. Sometimes I can carry on using Chrome but then that will lock up too. The only way I can fix this is to do a restart, then it runs fine again untill the problem comes back I have cleared history from Firefox and deleted most addons apart from WOT When I do a restart often the restart happens straight away , other times it waits for 3 mins before activating Also other programs like Google Earth sometimes work after the browser lock up, sometimes not Major changes to my Vista computer recently, updated from 1 gig RAM to 3 gig 4 weeks ago, updated Zone Alarm free about a week ago , updated Flash about a week ago Any ideas ? Thanks Try switching zone alarm off for a few hours....see if the problem persists, could be an issue with zone alarm, check the web site. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 731777 | 2008-12-22 20:52:00 | Uninstalled Flash this morning Had both FF and Chrome going at same time FF stopped after a hour, Chrome 20 mins latter SolMeister, I updated to the latest version of ZoneAlarm about the time of the problem but cant recall if it was before or after. Checking ZoneAlarms programs panel I see FF has ticks beside Access : Trusted and Internet But question marks beside Server : Trusted and Internet I have now ticked those 2 so I will see if that makes a difference If not I will close ZoneAlarm down and heaven help me , use Windows Firewall |
Paul Camford (10007) | ||
| 731778 | 2008-12-22 20:59:00 | Chrome uses IE too doesnt it for its options? Look in task manager and see whats using the CPU when it happens It could be a file Vista uses, thats causing it |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 731779 | 2008-12-23 06:43:00 | Damm ! Turned off Zone Alarm and are operating with Windows Firewall Problem has just occurred with Firefox and now using Chrome My CPU usage in Task Manager is showing 6% Not to sure what I am looking for in Task Manager Speedy, but I did notice that Firefox exe was still sitting there at 78,256K even though it is not a running application Three listings of Chrome but I guess that relates to the number of tabs open Other programs always running, Avast Anti Virus,Spyware Teminator, Super Anti Spyware,AVG Ant Spyware,Treatfire,WinPatrol |
Paul Camford (10007) | ||
| 731780 | 2008-12-23 06:50:00 | Is that AVG definately only anti spyware and not anti virus as well just looking for clarification | gary67 (56) | ||
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