FireFox knocks the whole computer off the internet

When I am using FireFox(at present 3.6.8) eventually it will stop accessing the internet. I will start getting nothing but "server taking to long to respond" or "can't find www.xxxxxxx.xxx" or "may be to busy", etc... I ahve several others browsers installed also and when this happens, they ALSO exhibit the same problems. I have to wait 5 minutes or reboot the system to re-access the internet. It does not affect my network connection, just access to the internet.
So far, my only solution is to never use FireFox

Reply to Jscher 2000. No that didn't do it. It just locked up again. Darn!

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How to make Firefox access the internet from Oracle Ent. Unbreakable Linux?

Hello
I have a Dell Duo Core x86 laptop that multiboots Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP and Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux. I use Internet Explorer to
access my email while at the library so I know my laptop can access the internet. I just installed the Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux in text mode and
I can still access the Internet but only if I use one of the Windows operating systems which is why I am keeping them for now. The reason is because when I
use Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux, when I select Firefox to access the internet I get these messages:
"Server not found
Firefox can't find server at www.hotmail.com
-check address for typing errors
-if unable to load pages check network connection
-if computer or network protected by firewall make sure Firefox permitted to access
web"
None of those reasons are true for not gaining access to the internet. I want to use Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux from now which is why I installed
but I need to know:
1) Why do I get the "Server not found" and the other error messages when I try to access the internet using Firefox and what do I have to do to make Firefox
access the internet successfully?

Hi,
First you must confirm your laptop with Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux can access internet.
Please open a terminal, input the following command
1.ifconfig
2.cat /etc/resolv.conf
Regards
Jason

Firefox crashes when I load any youtube video on the latest version, it not only crashes firefox but my whole computer goes blank and I have to restart, why is this?

Backstory: There are two possible events that could be causing this
1: At some point I may have followed a ''Tinyurl' link that consquently lead me to a youtube video, to which youtube worked perfectly fine before hand, and this is where i witnessed the first crash. Theories into whether this link, previously stated, may have done something to my system have been thought about, but the fact that youtube still works on the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer seems to present the idea of a virus or an error redundant. I own the latest Macfee antivirus software and Ccleaner(running the registry check) and have run them complete with disc defragment and scan disc error recovery along with an additional malware scanner. Nothing seems to have come up on anything. After doing all this, my last resort was System restore and this seemed to solve the problem, mainly because i had an earlier version of firefox. therefore i resisted updating for aslong as possible whenever it told me to update. but the otherday i thought i'd risk it again thinking it may have been a problem alot of people have been having and it would of been fixed, but sadly it hasn't. this lead me to google the problem and was advised to start firefox on 'safe mode' as there may have been a confliction between add ons or plugins with youtube or some thing like that, but sadly that hasn't worked either. The plugins i had installed with it were the ones firefox has told me to get, or recommended and the only two addons i had on firefox was Adblock plus (fanboy subscrip) and Noscript.
Details of what actually happens: go to a youtube link, video loads for about 2 seconds(both video and audio), screen freezes, and flashes maybe once with some small lines across the bottom half of the screen horizontally towards the right corner, then the screen goes blank and makes my laptop dorment, but still running, thus I restart my system.
Sadly now when I system restore there isn't a point far back enough before this problem. So its either i downgrade(which seems to be the only option) or simply stop using firefox, as internet explorer works perfectly fine. however running firefox with no scrip and adblock plus is the ideal browser customisation, which is why this is rather annoying.
so number 1 was the tinyurl theory and i must admit i was abit foolish to follow such a random link, but whats happened has happened.
2: basically there is a major disfunction with the latest firefox that has to with the addons i have included onto firefox and this seems to be causing a terrible effect on my system.
in a nutshell: firefox worked perfectly before upgrading to the new firefox and before i followed this link, the rest of my system is completely normal and virus and error free or so it says, Other browsers seem to work also. safe mode does not cure the problem.
Running on a customised Dell laptop, which is pretty midrange-toprange and hasn't been active long, so it has the general HD video card thats included in all Studio 15 Dell laptops.
any help appreciated.
cheers.
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I have had a similar problem with my system. I just recently (within a week of this post) built a brand new desktop. I installed Windows 7 64-bit Home and had a clean install, no problems. Using IE downloaded an anti-virus program, and then, because it was the latest version, downloaded and installed Firefox 4.0. As I began to search the internet for other programs to install after about maybe 10-15 minutes my computer crashes. Blank screen (yet monitor was still receiving a signal from computer) and completely frozen (couldn't even change the caps and num lock on keyboard). I thought I perhaps forgot to reboot after an update so I did a manual reboot and it started up fine.
When ever I got on the internet (still using firefox) it would crash after anywhere between 5-15 minutes. Since I've had good experience with FF in the past I thought it must be either the drivers or a hardware problem. So in-between crashes I updated all the drivers. Still had the same problem. Took the computer to a friend who knows more about computers than I do, made sure all the drivers were updated, same problem. We thought that it might be a hardware problem (bad video card, chipset, overheating issues, etc.), but after my friend played around with my computer for a day he found that when he didn't start FF at all it worked fine, even after watching a movie, or going through a playlist on Youtube.
At the time of this posting I'm going to try to uninstall FF 4.0 and download and install FF 3.6.16 which is currently on my laptop and works like a dream. Hopefully that will do the trick, because I love using FF and would hate to have to switch to another browser. Hopefully Mozilla will work out the kinks with FF 4 so I can continue to use it.
I apologize for the lengthy post. Any feedback would be appreciated, but is not necessary. I will try and post back after I try FF 3.16.6.

Whole computer freezes when Internet connects

My computer has been experiencing the beach ball of death. But only when it connects to the Internet. When the wifi is switched off and no network cable connected then it works perfectly. However when I connect to the Internet either through my iPhone hotspot or my home broadband it slows to an absolute crawl. This does not happen to other computers on the same network. I have checked the network and it seems to be fine. Can anyone help me? I can't find similar articles. I have a mac book pro on 10.8.4

Thanks Linc
I have done as you suggest. Below is me connecting my wifi and then going to Safari and then opening a webpage. During that I got the beach ball of death twice.
It seems to have I/O errors occuring at this point. From a very quick look around this seems to involve a problem with my hard drive - although this only seems to be occuring when I am connected to the internet and I don't get the ball of death othertimes...?
Can anyone help?
7/08/13 8:55:44.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'AU'.
7/08/13 8:55:44.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165
7/08/13 8:55:45.000 PM kernel[0]: MacAuthEvent en1 Auth result for: 00:60:64:a3:48:94 MAC AUTH succeeded
7/08/13 8:55:45.000 PM kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link UP virtIf = 0
7/08/13 8:55:45.000 PM kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
7/08/13 8:55:45.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: BSSID changed to 00:60:64:a3:48:94
7/08/13 8:55:45.000 PM kernel[0]: en1::IO80211Interface::postMessage bssid changed
7/08/13 8:55:45.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'TW'.
7/08/13 8:55:45.000 PM kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165
7/08/13 8:55:46.000 PM kernel[0]: AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en1
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7/08/13 8:55:46.841 PM configd[16]: network changed: v4(en1!:192.168.1.103) DNS Proxy SMB
7/08/13 8:55:46.928 PM airportd[1179]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “McBain”. Bailing on auto-join.
7/08/13 8:55:46.945 PM airportd[1179]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “McBain”. Bailing on auto-join.
7/08/13 8:55:46.960 PM airportd[1179]: _doAutoJoin: Already associated to “McBain”. Bailing on auto-join.
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Error: __NSCFError:
Domain : com.apple.mmcs
Code : 18
Desc : Unable to calculate signature.
UserInfo: {
 NSDescription = "Unable to calculate signature.";
 NSLocalizedDescription = "Unable to calculate signature.";
7/08/13 8:56:07.971 PM com.apple.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xprotectupdater[1093]) Exited with code: 252
7/08/13 8:56:07.973 PM com.apple.backupd-helper[1178]: Not starting scheduled Time Machine backup - time machine destination not resolvable.
7/08/13 8:56:18.026 PM com.apple.usbmuxd[29]: _heartbeat_failed heartbeat detected detach for device 0x9-192.168.1.101:0!
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7/08/13 8:56:38.036 PM CalendarAgent[519]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.queue] [Got error on refresh, but not rectifying principal because it was manually configured: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo=0x7fcabb639300 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7fcabb0b7250 "The request timed out.", NSErrorFailingURLStringKexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxNSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}]
7/08/13 8:56:38.037 PM CalendarAgent[519]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.queue] [Accountxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxmed out when executing operation: <CalDAVAccountRefreshQueueableOperation: 0x7fcabb61ad10; Sequence: 0>]
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7/08/13 8:56:48.875 PM apsd[225]: <APSConnectionNotificationQueue: 0x7face302af20>: outstanding count -1 for com.apple.apsd-queue-port=com.apple.syncdefaultsd.push-user=502-env=production
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Facebook on Firefox crashes my whole computer

I've got Windows 7 system and for the past week I haven't been able to open Facebook. It crashes before the page opens. I don't get any error messages because it stops working before this. I have to manually turn the computer off and on again as Ctr Alt Del doesn't work either.

Does it have any effect if you disable plugins like Java and Flash?
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+plugins

I have recently downloaded Adobe Reader 10.0 but when in firefox on the internet I want to open a PDF file on Company Announcements from Sydney Morning Herald Share Market news all I get is a black screen - why?

Previously when I had Adobe Acrobat 8 on my computer when I clicked on the PDF file on the Stock Exchange through Firefox It would immediately open the file. I have tried to reload the earlier version of Adobe Acrobat but it they will not allow me to do so.

If anyone is reading this still looking for what caused the issue and how to fix it here is what I discovered.
The antivirus program our company uses, Bitdefender Antivirus Plus, was causing some of the PDF files not to open. After troubleshooting the different modules and settings the culprit was..
Scan SSL in Privacy Control Settings. Turning it OFF solved the problem and all the PDF files that previously would not open now open just fine. This issue has been sent to Bitdefender for them to review. If you use a different antivirus program and are having this issue try locating the Scan SSL setting and see if turning it off solves the problem.

I cannot connect Firefox to the Internet. I keep getting an error message reading:" profile unavailable or inaccessible.

I've downloaded a new version of Firefox and it has not responded at all. I keep getting a profile inaccessible or unavailable message. I've gone to Mozilla support to apply their fix to this specified problem, but have not had any positive results.
I think the new version may be incompatible with my computer. I have a Windows Vista system and my IE browser works fine. Can you help??

Hi!
It sounds like you're having trouble with Firefox for Desktop. I'd recommend contacting the Firefox for Desktop support forum here: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/desktop https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/desktop]; they'll be more knowledgeable and better able to answer your questions than the volunteers here at the Firefox OS forum.
I hope that helps you!

After upgrading to Snow Leopard I can't use software update or firefox, and the internet is slow

I'm getting big problems. After installing Mac OS X Leopard from my usb, I had to since my disk drive stopped working, I had the following problems. 1) Firefox stopped working. 2) Software Update stopped working 3) Chrome runs really slow. 4) Safari stopped working 5) Even on Chrome I can't access any email, including; gmail; hotmail; yahoo; etc...
When software update loads it says checking... but it stays at 10% for at least 1 hr. I reinstalled SL once and it did something different, suddenly my wifi stopped working, and rapidly fluxtuated.
What the heck is going on?

Yes LS needs a update to work with the changes in 10.6.8, so does Parallels.
Read my backup, bootable clones, troubleshooting, performance, wifi security and restore info/advice here
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Firefox 4 messed up computer, Incredimail and Internet Explorer

I installed Firefox 4, noticed Roboform won't work anymore so I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox 3.6.13.

When Firefox crashes, it usually records information about what was happening at that moment. You can submit that data to Mozilla and share it with forum volunteers to see whether it points to the solution. Please check the support article "[[Firefox Crashes]]" (especially the last section) for steps to get those crash IDs, and then post some of the recent ones here.
If that's not possible, have you tried Firefox's Safe Mode? That's a standard diagnostic tool to bypass interference by extensions (and some custom settings). More info: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
If Firefox is closed, you can start Firefox in Safe Mode by holding down the Shift key when double-clicking the Firefox shortcut.
In the small dialog that should appear, click "Start in Safe Mode" (''not'' Reset).
If Firefox works better (is more stable) in Safe Mode, we could suggest various next steps based on that information. If it's just as bad, that would be good to know as well.

Firefox made my whole computer slow?

I upgraded to Firefox 6, as soon as I started using it, I realized that everything was starting to get slower. Pages would take a lot longer to open, and 1:00 youtube videos would take an hour to load. (when before it only took a few seconds) I really need help! I tryed upgrading Flash and reader but it really didn't help! Please help me.

I was having the same problem with crashes, and while it seemed related to Firefox I was not sure. There was some evidence from the crashes that it was possibly related to upgrading my Nvidia driver to a 320.** version. The Nvidia support forums seemed to suggest a problem with the latest versions of the driver. Following advice in http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1790345/display-driver-stopped-responding-recovered-560.html I have now upgraded to version 326.80 Beta. The problem seems to have been fixed.

Firefox crashes my whole computer when on facebook.WHY ?

When on facebook playing a game or just clicking on links my computer goes down.Only on facebook other wise firefox works good.

This started in version 10.0.2 was hoping beta would solve.Had to roll back graphics drivers last time i updated.
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Firefox
Version
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User Agent
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Open Containing Folder
Enabled Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Crash Reports
about:crashes
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about:memory
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true
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[email protected]
CA Anti-Phishing Toolbar
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[email protected]
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{23fcfd51-4958-4f00-80a3-ae97e717ed8b}
WinZip Courier
3.5
false
{74c841e3-b59f-479e-8d7a-e26a942a87c8}
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Value
accessibility.typeaheadfind
true
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2
browser.startup.homepage
http://www.rr.com/
browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
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browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:11.0
browser.tabs.loadInBackground
false
dom.disable_open_during_load
false
dom.disable_window_flip
false
dom.ipc.plugins.timeoutSecs
1
extensions.lastAppVersion
11.0
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
places.database.lastMaintenance
1331059852
places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
104858
privacy.cpd.offlineApps
true
privacy.cpd.siteSettings
true
privacy.donottrackheader.enabled
true
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
true
privacy.sanitize.timeSpan
0
security.OCSP.disable_button.managecrl
false
security.default_personal_cert
Select Automatically
security.disable_button.openCertManager
false
security.disable_button.openDeviceManager
false
security.warn_viewing_mixed
false
Graphics
Adapter Description
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Vendor ID
0x1002
Device ID
0x9462
Adapter RAM
1024
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Driver Version
8.791.0.0
Driver Date
10-26-2010
Direct2D Enabled
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DirectWrite Enabled
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ClearType Parameters
Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: RGB ClearType Level: 100 Enhanced Contrast: 300
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Google Inc. -- ANGLE (ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series ) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 1.0.0.930)
GPU Accelerated Windows
1/1 Direct3D 10
AzureBackend
direct2d

I use Firefox as my browser. I have Norton 360 Premier and my Windows firewall is off. Yet I experience frequent and random disconnects from the Internet. How do I prevent these actions? H. C.

I use Time Warner for ISP and do not have wireless features. The modem appears to have a live link even when Firefox indicates the internet connection has disconnected. The signal strength has been checked by T-W. further, this problem predates my use of Time Warner cable and in a different geographic location.
When I attempt to reestablish the connection I get the error message that Firefox is not responding. When I restart or reboot from a shutdown the connection can always be made.
sometimes the disconnect occurs very soon and sometimes hours later. Help!

Symantec have released an update for Norton 360 to make it compatible with Firefox 4, for details see http://us.norton.com/support/kb/web_view.jsp?wv_type=public_web&docurl=20100720113635EN&ln=en_US

Help. Firefox quit being able to connect with the internet. Other browsers can. Did a full reinstallation - no help. Windows 7

I have used firefox for years on Windows 7. I had an intermittent problem where firefox dropped the internet connection (unable to locate server) fixed by resetting the router.
Today, resetting the router did not work. I tried Internet Explorer - worked fine.
Booted and reinstalled firefox - same thing.
Did a wipeout reinstall - now nothing. You enter a url -nothing.
Help. I need my firefox.

That issue can be caused by corrupted cookies.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Cannot+log+in+to+websites
Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
*Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
*Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
If clearing the cookies doesn't help then it is possible that the file cookies.sqlite that stores the cookies is corrupted. 
Rename (or delete) cookies.sqlite (cookies.sqlite.old) and delete other present cookie files like cookies.sqlite-journal in the Firefox Profile Folder in case the file cookies.sqlite got corrupted.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies

I need to download a windows 32 bit version of firefox from a Linux computer

Sorry I can't work out how to do the above after a few minutes of trying.My windows 7 machine has been taken over by malware and prevents the download.I think the malware originated from a website pretending to be mozilla.org which I accidentally clicked on.Reinstalling windows has not fixed the problem.i guess they have a robot installing malware to my ip address or something.The offending website is the one that pops up as the number one advertised website when you search for "mozilla firefox" on bing.The website does not appear on google on my Linux machine.Perhaps the malware is introducing the fake website into my search results.I don't know ,I am not an expert.

A possibility is to open the Mozilla FTP website in Windows Explorer and download the Firefox setup file that way.
See "How To Download Firefox On a New Computer Without Using Internet Explorer":
* http://www.howtogeek.com/125447/
* ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/

In the last 4 days, whenever I go off the internet and then click on Mozilla to go back on the internet I get a message that says that I have to close Firefox or restart the computer; however, Firefox is not running and I end up having to restart my compu

I go on and off the Internet several times every day. In the last 4 days, when I go off the Internet by "x" ing out Firefox and I then later in the day try to go back on the Internet, I get a message that states something to the effect that Firefox is running and I need to either close out Firefox or restart the computer. I always end up having to restart the computer.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== In the past 4 days

Try the solutions at http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+hangs#Hang_at_exit

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