Firefox freezes up for 2 full minutes, every time I open it.

After I open Firefox, I have about two or three minutes to browse around before it freezes up. I get the "not responding" message. This lasts for a full two minutes, at least. There's always time to pop open IE or Chrome and get the information I need, but usually wait it out.
It is this, and the fact that I am asked to load new Java updates and restart Firefox EVERY TIME I open the browser that is leading me toward switching to Chrome. Firefox used to be the better alternative, now I get more reliability out of every other browser I use.

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My Macbook pro freezes for few minutes every time I startup after charging
I am using the latest update of IoS

'''Try Firefox Safe Mode''' to see if the problem goes away. [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode|Firefox Safe Mode]] is a troubleshooting mode that temporarily turns off hardware acceleration, resets some settings, and disables add-ons (extensions and themes).
If Firefox is open, you can restart in Firefox Safe Mode from the Help menu:
*In Firefox 29.0 and above, click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]], click Help [[Image:Help-29]] and select ''Restart with Add-ons Disabled''.
*In previous Firefox versions, click on the Firefox button at the top left of the Firefox window and click on ''Help'' (or click on ''Help'' in the Menu bar, if you don't have a Firefox button) then click on ''Restart with Add-ons Disabled''.
If Firefox is not running, you can start Firefox in Safe Mode as follows:
* On Windows: Hold the '''Shift''' key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
* On Mac: Hold the '''option''' key while starting Firefox.
* On Linux: Quit Firefox, go to your Terminal and run ''firefox -safe-mode'' <br>(you may need to specify the Firefox installation path e.g. /usr/lib/firefox)
When the Firefox Safe Mode window appears, select "Start in Safe Mode".
:[[Image:Safe Mode Fx 15 - Win]]
'''''If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode''''', your problem is probably caused by an extension, theme, or hardware acceleration. Please follow the steps in the [[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]] article to find the cause.
''To exit Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.''
When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help others with the same problem.

Firefox is trying to update my 8.0 version to 9.0.1. I'm not ready to do so because the Norton Toolbar is not yet compatable with the new Firefox release. How do I get firefox to stop trying to update every time I open the application?

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Firefox is trying to update my 8.0 version to 9.0.1. I'm not ready to do so because the Norton Toolbar is not yet compatable with the new Firefox release. How do I get firefox to stop trying to update every time I open the application?

Swarnava wrote: '''''Firefox 9 is Compatible with Norton 2011, 2012, 360 v5'''''.
This reads backwards, It is the other way as "Norton update is compatible with Firefox 9".

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How do you stop the welcome to firefox 4 screen from coming up every time I open firefox? I get two tabs, one the welcome window, then my home page. How do you stop the bloody welcome screen?

Its not my home page, Like I said, I hae my home page also come up in a different tab (google) I also get the welcome to FF4 on a seperate tab. My home page is set to google. But I dont want the welcome screen to pop up

Firefox blocks my Inbox Dollars toolbar EVERY TIME I open the browser. Why? In "plug Ins" it's "checked" with my other toolbars. What's up with this?

I have downloaded the toolbar from "Inbox Dollars," yet every time I open Firefox, it's gone! When I attempt to download it again (YEP, EVERY TIME I OPEN FIREFOX!!!) I get the little box telling me Firefox has blocked it, do I want to open it. Then I get the message that it will open after restarting the computer. This is REALLY a pain, and I don't want to go back to IE, but at least this wasn't a problem with them...

I downloaded the toolbar. When I was done using the computer, I put it to "sleep." The next time I "woke" the computer and went to Firefox, the toolbar was gone. When I downloaded the toolbar again, I got a box in the upper left hand corner of the screen stating Firefox BLOCKED the toolbar, and did I want to allow it. There was NO option to allow always-it's just a one time deal. When I shut down for the day, I expected it to remain, but no-next time I fired up firefox, NO TOOLBAR. I pulled up Inbox dollars again, clicked on download toolbar, got the box stating it's blocking the toolbar, etc, etc, etc. Unless Firefox upgrades daily, or in some cases, several times in one day, I'm going to stick with my description that the toolbar magically disappears EVERY TIME I OPEN
FIREFOX!!!
I don't profess to be any type of computer whiz, I'm totally self-taught, and it's not beyond the realm of possibility that I'm doing something wrong. I've been using Firefox for about a week, so I'd welcome any help!

How do I stop firefox from remenbering my last session every time I open up the browser?

Something happen to my computer yesterday because lots of my program shut down but I was able to open up again and now I discovered today that every time I open firefox it remember my last session even though I didn't ask it to - my homepage is set to my homepage under options and I do remember history and I know if I turn that off it won't do this but it shouldn't be doing this in the first place.

You can check if you have a user.js file in the Firefox profile folder that sets the browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once pref to true.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder (Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder)

How can I stop iTunes from prompting me for my password every time I open it?

Every time I open iTunes I am prompted four times to enter my Apple ID password. Now I know that this is because I have automatic downloads enabled but it never used to do this when I had iTunes 11, only happened since I've had iTunes 12.
Short of turning off Automatic Downloads, is there a way that I can get iTunes to stop prompting me for my password?

Hi mikehoft,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you are receiving repeated prompts to sign in with your account when you open iTunes on your Windows computer. It sounds like to me, because you mention Automatic Downloads, that you are being prompted to authorize your account. If this is the case, I would recommend working through all of the troubleshooting, in order, in the attached article to resolve this issue.
iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases - Apple Support
Best regards,
Joe

ITunes Asks For My Password Every Time It Opens

Running Mac OSX 10.10.1 (Yosemite) and iTunes 12.0.1.26
Every time I open iTunes, it asks me for my password. It asks for it usually four times:
-to enable automatic downloads (twice, not always in succession)
- to enable iTunes Radio
- And to enable downloads
I've asked this before with no success and no solutions.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

Like Jassy, this is a relatively new issue. I hate to say it, but it seemed to coincide with my Mavericks update. I doubt it's because of that, specifically, but it was around the same time. I really think it's some kind of Safari/iTunes issue.
I actually don't understand what you mean by an active internet connection being the problem. I'm only on line when my Mac is turned on and (I assume) when I'm on email or browsing the web. I don't have any connections set up when I'm not actively on line. But even so, I don't know wh that would cause me to have to log in to iTunes (four times in rapid succession) every time I clear my browser history.
That seems to be the one thing that causes it though - clearing my Safari History. If I don't clear it, iTunes doesn't require me to log back in. Only when I clear it does iTunes make me do those four log ins.
Hope that helps clarify this. I'm not a real whiz at this.

Final Cut asks for Serial Number every time I open it.

A couple months ago I upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2 on my iMac. Since then, every time I open up any applications I get prompted to type in my serial number. I've resulted to keeping my serial number on my desktop for easy access, but it's still really annoying. Any ideas?

This is just a thought...I don't know the answer from experience. Perhaps your user account doesn't have privileges to write the file to wherever FCS wants to store the Serial #. Once it's written on your computer, it's should work from any user account.
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What gives?

In case anyone happens upon this thread - the answer can be found here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4582284&#4582284

Lightroom5 asks for serial number every time I open.

Every time I open Lightroom I have to give my serial number. Somehow I am now using a trial version after upgrading to LR5 via CC. Don't know how to fix.

Try this (MAC OSX):
- close all Adobe application
- navigate to Mac HD>Library>Application Support>Adobe>Lightroom>Lightroom 5.0
- Right-click on Lightroom 5.0 folder and select Get Info
- In Get Info window, expand Sharing and Permissions secition, click on Lock icon and give all accounts listed read and write
- click on small gear icon and select 'Apply enclosed items'
- Then close the Get Info window and launch Lightroom 5, enter the serial number and close and re-launch the product

Firefox is Hanging (not full crashing) every time I press a keyboard key.. can't type URLs, can't scroll. Problem started this week and remains reproducible sadly.

Firefox hangs (freezes) when I press keyboard keys on my laptop (and only then).
Can't type URLs or scroll with the keyboard, for instance. Hence why this is being typed up on Internet Explorer. The problem is that my version of IE isn't registering Flash and/or Java as being fully active and up to date and I use Firefox more often.
This problem only appeared this week but now occurs every time; and has persisted after uninstalling and reinstalling (personal options uninstalled).
Firefox version most recent 3.6 iteration; 3.6.13
HP G62 Notebook PC with 2GB RamDDR2 and Athlon AMD II P320 Dual Core Processor;
System running Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit
I can't even copy and paste because Ctrl+C is a keypress!
Please help me?

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

Firefox tries to download same file every time I open it

I have downloaded a virus from depositfiles.com and after the download finished my antivirus program have deleted the file, but now every time I start firefox my eset smart security pop up with the message that firefox again tries to download this virus. if I choose smth in a message(2 variants: block the connection and do nothing) firefox get stuck. i already've cleaned my cache. don't know what to do. Sorry for bad english. thanks.

Hi,
Please check if the page has been set as the homepage in '''Tools''' ('''Alt '''+ '''T''') > '''Options''' > '''General''' > '''Home Page'''. [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Options%20window%20-%20General%20panel?as=u Options > General]
If you have many tabs open you can try to check if a tab corresponding to the download address is open, and close it. You can also try deleting the '''sessionstore.*''' files in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder Firefox Profile Folder]. This file stores the open tabs info when Firefox is closed. Please note that deleting the files would start the next session empty. You can try to bookmark the needed tabs by right-clicking on a tab > '''Bookmark All Tabs'''.
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Firefox Profile Folder & Files]
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Session-Restore#w_settings-may-be-incorrect Session Restore]
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Options%20window Options]

Why does Firefox check compatiblity of add-ons every time I open it? Why am I then directed to Mozilla home page? Why did you not answer this question the last time I asked it?

This is annoying. Iwant to start using a less troublesome browser but I like Firefox otherwise.

It's Problem With Your Profile.. Just Visit http://www.maherhackers.com/solved-firefox-checking-add-on-compatibility-every-time/ For Solution.

Aperture reprocesses previews for all videos every time I open it

Hello,
I use Aperture to organise all my videos shot on Canon 7d and an old HD Cam (705 vids, 381GB). Whereas my stills are stored in the aperture library, the videos are imported into eparate folders named after each project inside one master video folder.
I do this because it is an easy way to work with all of them in FCP (X), importing them without moving them, keywords from the folders coming across (and also because FCP used to incorrectly display the meta data- date and time imported shown as the file's creation details, when accessed via the aperture library menu from FCP, this bug has probably since been corrected)..
After restoring from a time machine back up recently, Aperture now reprocesses previews for all 705 movies every single time I open it, reboot or not. It doesn't hang on any particular file or crash but (as it's a mid 2010 MBP) simply slows Aperture down below useable for a few mins until they are done.
Post import processing set to camera previews, new projects always create previews ticked.
What am I doing wrong please? Should I attempt to fix the database?
Best
Ben

As a work-around - hold down the shift-key, when launching Aperture. That will defer the generation of Previews, so you can start working immediately.
What is your Aperture version and MacOS X version?
After restoring from a time machine back up recently, Aperture now reprocesses previews for all 705 movies every single time I open it, reboot or not.
Was Aperture the only thing you restored from a Time Machine backup? Or did you restore more of your system? If you reinstalled or upgraded the system, there may be now video codecs missing. In that case check, if reinstalling additional video codec (Perian, Flip-4-Mac, or similar) may help.
If the reinstalled aperrture library has been created on a different mac, there may be permission problems after restoring from Time Machine. Check the permissions and ownership on your video folders.
Are you touching the videos in any way, when using them in Final cut? Using stabilize or something? If the " last modiied " date is changed by Final Cut, this might prompt Aperture to recreate the preview.
-- Léonie

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