FF 6.02 freezes for 20-30 seconds; websites sometimes very slow to load. Didn't have these problems until I installed latest update

Firefox often freezes, when opening websites; stalls for 20-30 seconds before responding. This happens on various websites..nothing in particular. This problem began after I download and installed the latest security upgrade--6.0.2

As a temporary get around, dare I say it? I'm using Google Chrome which doesn't have this glitch in it. Been doing so for a couple of days now and no problems at all. I've gone back to Firefox a few times and the two or three second freeze every 10 or 15 seconds resumes, so I'll maybe check Firefox in a few months and see if there is any improvement. Or maybe, I'll be so used to Chrome by then I won't bother.
Hope this suggestion helps.

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AFTER UPGRADING TO LATEST VERSION OF FIREFOX( FOR MAC) ALL WEB SITES ARE VERY SLOW TO LOAD. I HAVE NO PROBLE WITH SAFARI. WHAT DO I DO?

confirmed e-mail [email protected]

Yours is the first complaint about Firefox on 10.8 I've seen, so I'm inclined to think it's a issue with your machine, or a bad download/update or something.
Run through this list of fixes and see what works.
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Firefox lags and freezes for a few seconds every time I want to load a new page or open a new tab

This just started a couple weeks ago, I've tried disabling numerous add-ons and updating plugins but to no avail.

Disabling hardware acceleration seemed to solve the problem. Thank you all very much, but before I close this thread as solved, I've always had that feature enabled to the best of my knowledge. Why did it suddenly cause problems?

Mavericks freezing for a few seconds in intervals

I've just upgraded to Mavericks and I'm having an issue with it freezing for a few seconds at random intervals. happens almost everytime I switch desktops too.
herer's my system spec :
Hardware Information:
          MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
          MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,2
          1 2 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 4 cores
          16 GB RAM
Video Information:
          Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 512 MB
          AMD Radeon HD 6490M - VRAM: 256 MB
Audio Plug-ins:
          BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0
          AirPlay: Version: 1.9
          AppleAVBAudio: Version: 2.0.0
          iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3
Startup Items:
          360ControlDaemon - Path: /Library/StartupItems/360ControlDaemon
          M-Audio Firmware Loader - Path: /Library/StartupItems/M-Audio Firmware Loader
          MolCp3Startup - Path: /Library/StartupItems/MolCp3Startup
          PACESupport - Path: /Library/StartupItems/PACESupport
          tun - Path: /Library/StartupItems/tun
System Software:
          OS X 10.9 (13A603) - Uptime: 2 days 0:14:50
Disk Information:
          ST9500325ASG disk0 : (500.11 GB)
                    EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
                    Macintosh HD (disk0s2) /: 499.25 GB (24.56 GB free)
                    Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
          MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information:
          Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
          Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
          Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
                    Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
          Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
FireWire Information:
Thunderbolt Information:
          Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Kernel Extensions:
          com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt          (0.0.74)
          com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice          (1)
          com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard          (5.9)
          com.protech.NoSleep          (1.3.1)
          net.osculator.driver.OSCulatorIOKit          (1.5.1)
          com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          (1.6.2)
          com.splashtop.driver.SRXDisplayCard          (1.6)
          net.telestream.driver.TelestreamAudio          (1.0.5)
          com.vara.driver.VaraAudio          (1.0.3)
          com.splashtop.driver.SRXFrameBufferConnector          (1.6)
          foo.tun          (1.0)
          com.logmein.hamachi          (1.0)
          com.aladdin.kext.aksfridge          (1.0.2)
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
          [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
          [loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
          [loaded] com.aladdin.aksusbd.plist
          [loaded] com.aladdin.hasplmd.plist
          [loaded] com.autodesk.backburner_manager.plist
          [loaded] com.autodesk.backburner_server.plist
          [loaded] com.autodesk.backburner_start.plist
          [not loaded] com.barebones.bbedit.plist
          [loaded] com.bresink.system.securityagent3.plist
          [loaded] com.cleverfiles.cfbackd.plist
          [loaded] com.github.GitHub.GHInstallCLI.plist
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
          [loaded] com.leapmotion.leapd.plist
          [loaded] com.logmein.hamachi.plist
          [failed] com.opengarden.meshclient.plist
          [loaded] com.paceap.eden.licensed.plist
          [loaded] com.rim.BBDaemon.plist
          [failed] com.splashtop.streamer.SRServiceDaemon.plist
          [failed] com.tidalpoolsoftware.macproxy.kext.plist
          [loaded] com.tvmobili.tvmobilisvcd.plist
          [loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
          [loaded] PACESupport.plist
Launch Agents:
          [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [loaded] com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
          [loaded] com.flipvideo.FlipShare.AutoRun.plist
          [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
          [loaded] com.leapmotion.Leap-Motion.plist
          [loaded] com.logmein.hamachimb.plist
          [loaded] com.rim.BBAlbumArtCacher.plist
          [loaded] com.rim.BBLaunchAgent.plist
          [failed] com.splashtop.streamer.SRServiceAgent.plist
          [failed] com.tidalpoolsoftware.macproxy.application.plist
          [loaded] com.tvmobili.artwork.plist
          [loaded] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist
          [loaded] net.culater.SIMBL.Agent.plist
          [loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
User Launch Agents:
          [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
          [failed] com.akamai.client.plist
          [loaded] com.akamai.single-user-client.plist
          [failed] [email protected]
          [loaded] com.facebook.videochat.Caius.plist
          [failed] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac.helperTool.plist
          [loaded] com.spotify.webhelper.plist
          [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
          [failed] net.sourceforge.tvshows.plist
          [failed] ws.agile.1PasswordAgent.plist
User Login Items:
          3DconnexionHelper
          Dropbox
          Sony Ericsson Bridge Helper
          KiesAgent
          fuspredownloader
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          3Dconnexion
          Flash Player
          MacFUSE
          Perian
Internet Plug-ins:
          CitrixICAClientPlugIn.plugin
          Default Browser.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin
          Flash Player.plugin
          FlashPlayer-10.6.plugin
          googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin
          iPhotoPhotocast.plugin
          JavaAppletPlugin.plugin
          LogMeIn.plugin
          LogMeInSafari32.plugin
          npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
          o1dbrowserplugin.plugin
          QuickTime Plugin.plugin
          Silverlight.plugin
          Unity Web Player.plugin
          WacomNetscape.plugin
          WacomSafari.plugin
          ZigJS.plugin
User Internet Plug-ins:
          iGetterBundle.plugin
          WebEx64.plugin
Bad Fonts:
          None
Time Machine:
          Mobile backups: ON
          Auto backup: YES
          Volumes being backed up:
                    Macintosh HD: Disk size: 499.25 GB Disk used: 474.69 GB
          Destinations:
                    Seagate Expansion Drive [Local] (Last used)
                    Total size: 999.86 GB
                    Total number of backups: 5
                    Oldest backup: 2012-10-28 09:00:40 +0000
                    Last backup: 2013-10-26 18:21:53 +0000
                    Size of backup disk: Too small
                              Backup size 999.86 GB < (Disk used 474.69 GB X 3)
Top Processes by CPU:
             348%          Unity
               6%          Google Chrome
               4%          WindowServer
               3%          coreaudiod
               2%          Finder
               1%          EtreCheck
               1%          hidd
               0%          BBLaunchAgent
               0%          Dropbox
               0%          mds_stores
Top Processes by Memory:
          1.12 GB            Unity
          1.02 GB            Finder
          279 MB             Google Chrome
          246 MB             mds_stores
          246 MB             com.apple.IconServicesAgent
          213 MB             mono
          164 MB             softwareupdated
          115 MB             Sublime Text 2
          115 MB             WindowServer
          82 MB              Dropbox
Virtual Memory Statistics:
          4.13 GB            Free RAM
          6.36 GB            Active RAM
          3.53 GB            Inactive RAM
          1.97 GB            Wired RAM
          12.80 GB           Page-ins
          0 B                Page-outs

Thanks for you post, I was under the impression that one of the new macbook pro's comes with 16GB RAM out of the box.
I'll try your solution although I feel like is rather utilise the RAM I've paid for.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/10462096123 Suggested that it's possibly the new memory compression causing the issues. This seems to fit, because I'm a game developer I tend to have quite a lot of memory intensive applications running.
Will report back if I find a solution, if there are any more suggestions I'm all ears.

Applications randomly freeze for a few seconds?!

Hi guys,
I have had nothing but trouble with this most recent iMac I purchased 4 months ago. It's the 24" described in my profile. AppleCare came out and recently replaced my faulty HDD, and put a 500gb Hitachi in (replacing 500gb Seagate).
Anyway, for no reason, after a fresh install and all the updates, applications will freeze for a few seconds and show the spinning beach ball- doesn't matter what application (Wow, Safari, Quicktime, Skype, Adium, etc.)- anything! I can see in activity monitor that there is a spike in the disk activity at the time, but cannot explain why. It's a brand new hard-drive! Interestingly, there is no corresponding jump in CPU or RAM access, so it's obviously some kind of data-dump issue with the HDD....the new HDD...
Looking in Activity Monitor, it appears to be the data read/sec that is spiking.
This is extremely frustrating, and I thought the new HDD would solve this, but apparently not. I don't particularly wish to reinstall OSX, and AppleCare in Australia is shut at the moment (midnight)
Does anyone know of a solution, or why it's happening?
I never had ANY of these problems with my first 24" that I bought late last year, with stock everything (hdd, gfx, etc.)....I feel like this one is faulty by nature....
Thanks!
EDIT: http://forums.mactalk.com.au/showthread.php?t=36763 shows my original HDD issue with the previous HDD....you can see this *****

Charles Minow wrote:
kendals wrote:
Hmm, I actually think it might be this new HDD that has been installed. Whenever it wakes from sleep, it takes a MUCH longer time than my previous machine, and even my previous hdd which was faulty.
And I can hear it first start to spin the HDD up in a little whir, then the clicky sorta bits where it is reading it, and then finally after the spinning ball, it gives me the PWD screen.
It has to be the HDD. Calling Apple in the morning...
Sound like that could be a HDD problem. One way to confirm it is to look at the Console application from your Utilities folder. Look at the System Log and Console Log and see if you see any lines with text like "disk0s2: I/O error." at the times when you see the freezes and hear the clicks. Note that the numbers in the disk0s2 part can change, depending on how your drives are set up.
charlie
Charles Minow wrote:
kendals wrote:
Hmm, I actually think it might be this new HDD that has been installed. Whenever it wakes from sleep, it takes a MUCH longer time than my previous machine, and even my previous hdd which was faulty.
And I can hear it first start to spin the HDD up in a little whir, then the clicky sorta bits where it is reading it, and then finally after the spinning ball, it gives me the PWD screen.
It has to be the HDD. Calling Apple in the morning...
Sound like that could be a HDD problem. One way to confirm it is to look at the Console application from your Utilities folder. Look at the System Log and Console Log and see if you see any lines with text like "disk0s2: I/O error." at the times when you see the freezes and hear the clicks. Note that the numbers in the disk0s2 part can change, depending on how your drives are set up.
charlie
Thanks, Charles.
Looking at the Console log, it doesn't seem to have any i/o errors. Since both logs are quite lengthy, and the quoting system here is a bit akward, I've linked them:
Console.log: http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/clip.php?clip=e04
System.log: http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/clip.php?clip=e06
Couldn't really see anything there, but have a look if you'd like. Looking forward to calling Apple Support today and finding out what the deal is...only just got this new HDD put in!

Macbook freezes for a few seconds

I have a macbook pro (mac OS 10.7.5). As I use it ,the colorful spinning ball appears for no reason and the mac freezes for a few seconds. When I write something, when i use Itunes ,when i scroll down it happens everytime. I did a format on my hard drive but nothing change. Does anybody know what is going wrong?

The next time you have the problem, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Select any messages timestamped from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

When I open itunes it freezes for a few seconds then says iTunes stopped working and closes down. I have tried downloading the latest version, both repair and remove and it still keeps happening

When I open itunes it freezes for a few seconds then says iTunes stopped working and closes down. I have tried downloading the latest version, both repair and remove and it still keeps happening

Tried the un-install and getting the same problem although it takes a bit longer before it crashes this time. Checked the problem report and it looks the same as the previous reports.
Problem signature
Problem Event Name:          APPCRASH
Application Name:          iTunes.exe
Application Version:          10.2.1.1
Application Timestamp:          4d756476
Fault Module Name:          MediaToolbox.dll
Fault Module Version:          1.0.694.3
Fault Module Timestamp:          4d4d9a00
Exception Code:          c0000005
Exception Offset:          0034a672
OS Version:          6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID:          2057
Additional Information 1:          fd00
Additional Information 2:          ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3:          fd00
Additional Information 4:          ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

Acrobat 7 freezes for a few seconds at every startup

I am hoping someone can please enlighten me as to why Acrobat 7 freezes for a few seconds everytime the program is started. If starting the program directly from executing the associated pdf file, the program loads the first page, freezes (stops responding) for approx 6 to 8 seconds, then responds to user interface again.
It is not the machine as I have the same problem on many different machines. Help please.

Disabling hardware acceleration seemed to solve the problem. Thank you all very much, but before I close this thread as solved, I've always had that feature enabled to the best of my knowledge. Why did it suddenly cause problems?

When im texting and I magnify bubble to go back the bubble freezes for about 5 seconds then unfreezes

I Have a 5s and when I'm texting and use magnify bubble to go back the bubble freezes for about 5 seconds then unfreezes- My iphone 4 did same thing and was able to fix but cannot remember how- Something about copy or paste I think- Thanks

Hello, Dthoney.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Try closing all opening applications and power cycle the device. Once this is done test to see if the device becomes responsive.
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Cheers,
Jason H.

AR8 freezes for about 40 seconds after start

Hi,
I use SuSE Linux 10.0 on a Thinkpad R51 and I installed the 8.1.1 enu rpm version of adobe reader and I use a dual head xinerama display.
Biggest problem:
Adobe Reader starts up normally and for about 2 secs, it can be used normally. Then, it freezes for about 40 seconds. Nothing is possible in this time. Afterwards, a normal use is possible.
Minor problem:
Everytime I open a PDF document with the Firefox plugin (FF 2.0.0.6), the plugin seems to be loaded and initialised again. This is very time consuming. In AR7, one had to wait for plugin initialisation only when opening the first pdf document.
Is there a plan to fix these issues? Otherwise, I will downgrade to AR 7.0.
Thanks,
Al

Hi Al,
Could you answer the following questions in regards to your problem, for us to better understand the problem scenarios -
Regarding your first problem ---
1. The freeze after launch is happening on "every" launch of the reader, or is it occassional?
2. When the reader window is hung, do you see any sort of progress bar or alert on the screen?
3. If you try to launch the the reader from the terminal, do you see any alert/warnings on the console while the reader is hung?
There is also a small exercise we would like you to do, in order to verify a known issue (you would need 'root' access to do the following) -
* Temporarily rename the folder "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" (the font folder under /usr/X11R6) to something else (say "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts_dummy").
* Restart acroread a couple of times.
Do you still see the problem of the application getting hung? Please do let us know your observations. Also don't forget to restore the name of the folder "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" back to its original name.
Regarding your second problem ----
The behaviour is basically due to the browser's handling of external plugins. In Reader 7.0 due to some issues, we sometimes missed indicating to the browser that our work was done, and that is why an instance of the plugin persisted.
This was however corrected and in Reader 8 we now correctly tell the browser when the PDF file is closed. It is at this point that the browser should decide whether to keep the plugin loaded or to close and unload it. And it seems that at present Firefox immediately unloads us after the last document is closed.
Anyway thanks for pointing out the problem. We'll take note of it and try to find a workaround to improve the performance in the future release.
Regards
Salil

Please help: Mouse cursor on MBP repeatedly freezing for a few seconds

Hi all
I bought a MBP last week, and today I started experiencing problems with the mouse cursor. No matter whether I'm using the trackpad or an external mouse (I've tried using both a wired Mighty Mouse and a wireless Logitech), when I'm moving the cursor it keeps freezing for a few seconds (perhaps less than a second), and then I "regain" control of it, only for it to freeze again after a short while.
The only thing that I can think of that might have something to do with this is that I replaced the 2GB of Apple RAM with 4GB of OWC RAM a couple of days ago. Can this be the reason?
Please help me, as this problem renders the computer impossible to use:(
Thanks in advance
Daniel
PS: I'm running Mac OS 10.5.1 and I've got the Keyboard Freeze Update Installed.

Hi.
I have a similar problem, however I realized it is somehow related to weather the airport is on. If I turn it off, there are no freezes. It is weird, and I'm going to go with it to Apple.

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Firefox v15 and up cause my computer (MAC OSX 10.8.2) to freeze for about 30 seconds every 15-30 seconds and forces me to turn it off with the power button. It only causes this after I have opened Firefox, my computer runs fine before opening Firefox. I have uninstalled Firefox and cleared my personal settings. I have installed future updates (16 and 17) and have run into the same issue. I cannot pull any information on RAM or CPU usage because when it happens it makes my computer unusable. Unfortunately I need to use FF for work and can't. I have tried the different responses on the forums to reduce the amount of RAM and CPU usage with no change in performance.

Duplicate of https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/944207

Firefox frequently freezes for 30-60 seconds when I click on bookmarks, bookmark buttons, almost anything really.

Firefox frequently freezes for 30-60 seconds when I click on bookmarks, bookmark buttons, almost anything really. It has been doing this ever since I downloaded the latest update (7.0.1). It is really frustrating. Can you please help?

You will also notice that your shift key will be emulated. Meaning that keys you will try to press will press but they will act like you are pressing the shift key when you are doing them.
Try this, minimize the firefox window by pressing the tab on your taskbar. After doing that maximize it again. You will magically be able to click any link on your page. When you navigate to a new page however, the entire situation will start all over. My only remedy is rebooting and hoping it doesn't happen again soon.

What could this be? Cursor freezes for about a second

Sometimes, the cursor freezes for about a second. It does not move on the screen. I checked the log files, but I cannot seem to find any trace of it.
Has anyone else seen this? It does not happen a lot, it happens occasionally.
I have seen it happen in Safari the most, but that is the app that I use the most anyway.

Thanks for suggesting we turn off the "accidental input" option. It's a shame we have to live with the alternative - accidental input - which happens to me fairly frequently when I'm typing. But the mouse freezing was driving me insane.
I found that it was very easy to reproduce. Simple go to a webpage, scroll down the page with the down arrow key, so the mouse disappears on-screen, then try to use the trackpage to move the mouse - it doesn't appear immediately. For me, it takes 1-3 seconds - which feels like forever.

Long click to select an alternate tool, the flyout freezes for a few seconds

When I long click to select an alternate tool, the flyout freezes for a few seconds before I can select a tool. How can I fix this? My only work around right now is to know the tool shortcut and then to cycle through it with shift+tool shortcut.
Thanks,
Zack

So I don't know what happened. This has been the case ever since I can remember, but today I got a wacom tablet and now the tablet and the mouse can use the sidebar as normal. All I can assume is that the drivers for the tablet fixed some preference list file error...

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