Quake3World

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.

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

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

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

256mb

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.

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.

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

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.

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

That's my entire list of extensions.

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.

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.