Firefox cookies make my computer freeze & have to be rebooted

Firefox stopped working on my machine (Windows 8.1), it opened in the tabs I had last used but there was no picture displayed and the whole computer froze, making it necessary to restart by pushing the button. Uninstalling and reinstalling made no difference, so I uninstalled it and just started using Chrome (no problem). When optimising my computer using CC Cleaner, it stopped when trying to clear 'Firefox Cookies', also freezing my whole computer & making it necessary to restart it by pressing the off button. I've tried rebooting in safe mode but the same things happen. Please advise how to locate and delete Firefox cookies. Thank you

Thank you Jscher that solved the problem :-)

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    All you need to do is wait. While Firefox appears closed, it's not. It doing house cleaning. Cleaning out cookies and cache. How long it takes depends upon how much garbage you have collected.
    If you start the Task Manager and open the Process window, you will be able to see when Firefox has finished up and closed down.
    If you forced Firefox to close using the task manager, then the house keeping process seems to freeze up.
    Also, as you've already found out from the above link, some programs and plugins will prevent Firefox from closing properly. I've found this less common then simply being in a hurry. But you need to also consider it.

  • Ever since I updated to Firefox 7.1, my computer won't go to the internet when I double-click the Mozillz Firefox icon, like it normally does; I have to restart my computer to be able to access the internet. Why?

    Ever since I updated to Firefox 7.1, my computer won't go to the internet when I double-click the Mozilla Firefox icon, like it normally does; I have to restart my computer to be able to access the internet. Why?

    There is a difference between remembering the name and password in the Password Manager and a "remember me" check box on a web page to log you in automatically.<br />
    The latter usually involves the creation of a special "remember me" cookie that is stored on your computer and that is send to the server.<br />
    If that "remember me" cookie is removed or gets corrupted or is not send to the server then the server won't remember you anymore and you need to sign in once again.<br />
    <br />
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies
    * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager
    So make sure that you keep the cookies from those sites via an allow exception and that you do not clear the cookies or site preferences via "Clear Recent History".

  • My system crashed several months ago -- had to go back to start, when i bought computer -i have reloaded firefox - and now i can not get pictures on Facebook -mine or any one else in the news feed

    When I first downloaded Firefox- everything was normal -- then my computer had to be taken back to the way it was from the factory. I had Trojans. Now I have reloaded Firefox, and I get no pictures on Facebook. I get all of the graphics when I go to a game site, and it is fast--Thank you!!, but when I am on my Homepage or News feed, all I get are the names, but no pictures of my friends or what they have posted --pictures. In my profile, I have no picture of myself that I have posted, or in my albums.
    I have uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox 4 times now, and still the same thing. PLEASE HELP ME-- I DO NOT LIKE WINDOWS EXPLORER-- IT IS SLOWER THAN MOLASSES IN A BLIZZARD-- IT TAKES MINUTES TO LOAD SOME OF MY GAMES-- AND SOME WON'T LOAD AT ALL.

    With Facebook on display, click on the site identity button (for details on what that is see the [[site identity button]] article) and then on More Information. This will open up the page info dialog.
    First select the Permissions panel, make sure that "Load Images" is set to allow (selecting Use Default should also work)
    Next select the Media panel, then click on the first item in the list. Use the down arrow key to scroll through the list. If any item has the option "Block images from (domain name)" selected, de-select the option.
    This should hopefully resolve your issue, but also see [[Images or animations do not show]].
    Some add-ons can also block images, for example if you have AdBlock Plus installed, make sure that you have not accidentally created a filter to block the images.

  • In Firefox 31.0 a bug makes the browser freeze, and then I can't close tabs anymore, what may solve this?

    Good afternoon. With the newest update of Firefox for PC (31.0), I have a problem that occurs almost every time I use the browser.
    When trying to close a tab, it sometimes cause the browser to freeze during one minute.
    Then a dialog-box appears on the screen. It says that the script "chrome://browser/content/tabbrowser.xml:2004" may be busy.
    I can choose between two buttons in this dialog-box.
    "Continue" which keeps the script running, in theory; though it just closes the dialog-box, makes the browser freeze again, and then the same dialog-box shows up.
    "Stop the script" which ends the freeze; but then I'm unable to close tabs (I can still close the browser).
    I also noticed that, when the freeze occurs, the content of the tab I tried to close changes to "New Tab".
    When I restart the browser, I am able to close tab again, until the freeze shows up again.
    The problem started to appear only when I updated Firefox to the 31.0 version (and I didn't add any browser extension in the meanwhile).
    Does anyone have an idea of what I could do to avoid the problem? Thank you very much and have a good day!

    In the immediate future you can try noscript or flashblock addons to block that script.
    However upon more research in searching the current Firefox codebase: [http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=tabbrowser.xml&case=false] it seems to be referenced in there, but I do not see a reference to the port associated. The port is usually used for media. I would not know how to start to troubleshoot this, but are there any consistent steps/webpages that cause this to start?
    Does this happen in Safe Mode, please see [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]]? And does it happen in a fresh install?

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