firefox keeps locking up, ugh...

[speedy11131]

I'm about to throw this laptop out the window into the snow.

Recently got an Asus G60VX laptop, and for some stupid reason, Firefox decides to lockup about every 30 seconds. By lockup I mean to the point that if you click, screen gets while and cursor turns into that circle spinning thing (Windows 7, in XP its the darn hourglass I think).

It's really starting to frustrate me. It seems to happen if I have a tab with a Youtube video actively running, because at this moment as I am typing this topic and have the video stopped, it seems fine...

I do have about 30 tabs open but that should not affect it so much? (I do the same on my 1215N and there are no problems....)

 

[RejZoR]

Have you tried Firefox 4 ? Take a portable version for a spin from PortableApps.

What does Task Manager says? Not Responding or just hammering firefox.exe at 100% CPU usage?

 

[BazookaJoe]

I have recently seen a number of machines exhibiting very unusual "hanging" behavior in Firefox 3.newest on windows 7, all of witch resulting in the "spinny circle" for extended periods of time.

It may be an Adobe Flash issue.. I expect it will be resolved sooner or later.

 

[speedy11131]

Now explorer is locking up too, and so is firefox, even without something flash loaded. It seems every time there's sound playing, it locks up.

 

[micropage7]

try look at the task manager, if first is firefox then IE i guess its not only from the apps, check any apps that eat resources or run on background

 

[Champ]

I believe FF has some issues this time around. In taskmanger and processes you may see something called plugin-container.exe. It will absolutely killed the performance of your machine. It's so bad, I went back to Chrome. Its something that added in the last update.

 

[brandonwh64]

I'm about to throw this laptop out the window into the snow.

I loled HAHA