Firefox seems to hang when gmail is open. I must use task manager to exit. Frequency of hangs is increasing. Now typed characters don't always appear first time I type them. Other programs seem unaffected. Problem is getting progressively worse. Help?
I only noticed today that Firefox works fine until I open gmail, so I'm not 100% sure of that. I usually work with gmail open, so it's hard to separate the two. Problems started before Christmas. Firefox would hang occasionally (every few days). Keyboard worked fine. Then Firefox started to hang once a day or so. Now it hangs several times a day. Every now and then, it crashes (especially if left unattended, the brat), but apparently I never sent a crash report. ( I couldn't get it to crash today -- it would rather hang. Fatal either way.) A week ago, I completely removed Firefox to the best of my ability and reloaded, hoping that would fix any hidden out-of-date or cookie issues. No joy. Keyboard issue started yesterday, so now Firefox is useless. Please save me from having to use Explorer!
P.S. I have Vista.
P.S.S. Oh, google calendar wouldn't load in Firefox, just now - said it's "redirected", and then Firefox crashed. Crash id is below. I did the about:crashes thing and Firefox could not find the report! (Oh Noes!)
This sounds like malware to me, not that I know anything at all. I have current McAffee and it did not detect anything.
Problems started around the same time that I got a new canon pixma MG8120 printer, which loaded a plugin apparently. Might be a coincidence.
If you tell me to remove any plugins, tell me how. I think I tried that and couldn't find a way. Or maybe that was something else...
New information and answers to the questions:
1) I've never used dropbox on this machine, so that isn't the case
2) I use Firefox as my browser and don't touch Safari unless it is a site that Firefox balks at. I did all the hardware scans, software scans, resetting prefs, and PRAM as well, almost every day.
New info: I had to do a complete system format and reinstall. It actually seems to have solved the problem and corrected a few things that the recent updates hadn't resolved (the disk sound on sleep-wake didn't work until I installed the update on a new system install). I think the issue had to do with either the recent Java or Airport updates and I haven't installed them this time due to that fear. What forced me to do a complete install was the computer wouldn't hold an internet connection *at all*, even when directly plugged into the router via ethernet. System time got messed up and keychain passwords got hosed too if they related to recent internet/network connections. I wish I had more info to share but that's it. Thanks for the suggestions. I am going to keep this open for now as I am interested in seeing if anything else could explain this issue.
I opened a bug report at the Apple Dev. site (https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/110/wo/klAiofleLooe0 XCbERCOUM/5.79.28.0.9) as well.
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