Firefox freezes on start (have tried compatibility, reinstall, and older versions, and disabled anti-virus)
Firefox completely freezes when I open it (don't have to click on anything, or do anything). I read that Hyper-Threading could be the issue on Pentium 4 machines. I'm on a Pentium, so I gave it a shot. When in campatiblity, it loads, but when I try to open a page, it crashes (comes up with the Mozilla crash reporter thing).
When it does freeze up, the CPU usage never goes above normal (rarely goes above 0%), and memory is within sain range (~20MB).
I have completely uninstalled (removed bookmarks, addons, everything) and reinstalled, and it doesn't help. I have also tried Firefox 4, and 3.5 both have the same issue.
This tells me it's something with my boxes setup, but I'm not sure where to look. Any help would be appreciated.
Solved it.
Apparently, the check box "remove all personal/user data" in the uninstall does not actually "remove all personal/user data". That really should be addressed. I had to:
1. Uninstall Firefox
2. Delete %USERDATA%/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox
3. Reinstall Firefox
Now it works. (I'm posting from Firefox.) Apparently, something was corrupted.
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AdapterDeviceID: 0611
AdapterVendorID: 10de
Add-ons: {20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}:0.0.0,{22181a4d-af90-4ca3-a569-faed9118d6bc}:3.1.0.1163,[email protected]:1.0,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:6.0
AvailableVirtualMemory: 2039521280
BuildID: 20110811165603
CrashTime: 1313756472
EMCheckCompatibility: true
Email:
FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000
FramePoisonSize: 65536
InstallTime: 1313747586
Notes: AdapterVendorID: 10de, AdapterDeviceID: 0611, AdapterDriverVersion: 6.14.12.7533
ProductName: Firefox
ReleaseChannel: release
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 223
StartupTime: 1313756472
SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 49
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
TotalVirtualMemory: 2147352576
URL:
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 6.0
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MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP] : 2 : 3 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
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iS3Provider over [MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]] : 2 : 1 : C:\Program Files\Common Files\iS3\Anti-Spyware\iS3lsp.dll
iS3Provider over [MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP]] : 2 : 2 : C:\Program Files\Common Files\iS3\Anti-Spyware\iS3lsp.dll
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MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip_{F350790A-2C1C-414F-988B-1928A55D8463}] DATAGRAM 6 : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll
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This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.Please hold down Shift when you start Firefox, Enter Safe Mode, and then turn off Hardware Acceleration [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL#w_turning-off-hardware-acceleration|Turning off hardware acceleration]]
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1717
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Date/Time: 2012-04-09 12:46:07 -0400
OS Version: 10.7.3 (Build 11D50d)
Architecture: x86_64
Report Version: 9
Command: iPhoto
Path: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Version: 8.1.2 (8.1.2)
Build Version: 8
Project Name: iPhotoProject
Source Version: 4240000
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PID: 980
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UID: 502
Thread 0x50630
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19 ??? (in iPhoto) [0x3172]
19 ??? (in iPhoto) [0x124b80]
19 NSApplicationMain + 1054 (in AppKit) [0x9c5eb261]
19 -[NSApplication run] + 911 (in AppKit) [0x9c357675]
19 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 113 (in AppKit) [0x9c35b306]
19 _DPSNextEvent + 678 (in AppKit) [0x9c35ba9c]
19 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 88 (in HIToolbox) [0x90129356]
19 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 381 (in HIToolbox) [0x901294e7]
19 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 318 (in HIToolbox) [0x9012217f]
19 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 120 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dce328]
19 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 332 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dce47c]
19 __CFRunLoopRun + 1112 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99dcec68]
19 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 246 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99da4d96]
19 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 15 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99da53df]
19 __NSThreadPerformPerform + 503 (in Foundation) [0x9ac96e40]
19 -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 65 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99e2dde1]
19 ??? (in iPhoto) [0x50792e]
19 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 92 (in Foundation) [0x9ac45012]
19 _CFXNotificationPost + 2776 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99de3a38]
19 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke_1 + 275 (in CoreFoundation) [0x99e18cb3]
19 __-[NSNotificationCenter addObserver:selector:name:object:]_block_invoke_1 + 49 (in Foundation) [0x9ac59e25]
19 ??? (in iPhoto) [0x5c2a86]
19 -[NSLock lock] + 185 (in Foundation) [0x9ac4c826]
19 __psynch_mutexwait + 10 (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) [0x93b74876]
Kernel stack:
19 hndl_unix_scall + 281 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80002d7f39]
19 unix_syscall + 472 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80005ca448]
19 psynch_mutexwait + 1403 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80005a043b]
19 ksyn_block_thread_locked + 67 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff800059a7d3]
19 thread_block_reason + 299 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff800022f39b]
19 thread_continue + 1661 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff800022f11d]
19 machine_switch_context + 361 (in mach_kernel) [0xffffff80002c0939] -
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