Firefox problem

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:38 am

I like this browser, I don't want to start hating it but...

I had two windows open with a total of 20-25 tabs among them. No big deal right? Well something weird happened, I lost my internet connection. I pinged a site through command prompt, got a connection, no problem. Opened Mozilla Thunderbird, checked my mail, again no problem. Only Firefox wouldn't load or reload pages. I went to check my extensions but the window that opened was frozen and tiny. Expanding that windows revealed nothing but blue and grey colors smearing.

I had access to my BetterSearch and Adblock extension at the bottom right of the window. I clicked Bettersearch and it worked fine, I clicked Adblock and it seemed frozen as well, a window would open but again it was like opening the extensions window where it was frozen and tiny.

I load German Firefox 1.0.1 in another folder on my desktop so I can access the net, hoping it wouldn't overwrite the English version. It didn't overwrite it, but it closed all my tabs and windows when I opened it. So I close the rubbish German version, and open the English version again since it's already been closed. It works again and I'm writing this now.

So was it Adblock that screwed up? What happened? Excuse typos, grammatical errors, etc., I'm typing on the fly. I will re-read this post for mistakes in a bit.

Post by **saturn** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:41 am

how much mem do you have? 20-25 tabs eats up a lot of memory

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:21 am

I've had many more tabs in the past. This is a light load in comparison.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:50 pm

yar, but the content of the pages might have been completely different (flash, images, blah). so how much memory do you have? hm? HM??!

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:03 pm

256mb

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:05 pm

and running xp? if you are, that's barely enough for xp by itself. and we all know how FF can chew memory when it's been sitting around for a bit.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:06 pm

I closed the few tabs with heavy content when I first noticed no internet activity. I continued closing as many tabs as I was willing to close, with no effect.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:07 pm

I'm on win2k on this computer with ~60% free space and a recent defrag nearly a week ago.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:19 pm

i'm thinking one of your extensions (you mentioned adblock) screwed you up perhaps. i've only got a couple of extensions (weather fox and download manager tweak) and have lost connections in the past but was able to recover once i got the connection back.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:24 pm

My extensions:
Translate
Adblock
Tabbrowser preferences
ForecastFox (very nice)
miniT
Bettersearch (very nice)
Clusty toolbar (meh...)

That's my entire list of extensions.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:27 pm

yep, hard to say. you can probably write off Forecast Fox because after checking mine, that's what i use. i believe i used to use weatherfox.

i don't think i can help you more than that, man.

Post by **Fender** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:41 pm

Might have been checking for updates. I have an extention (proxy switcher) that has an old update site in its config. I had to disable the auto-check for updates or else it took several minutes for FF startup. Maybe something similar happened.