Google Search stops responding in Firefox 28
Hi folks,
I have searched an read and tried the following, but the problem keeps coming back.
After "some" period of time in a browser session, Google bookmarked pages and searches just stop responding. They look like they try to connect, but fail after timing out in a minute or two. Bing, Yahoo, etc all work. ONLY Google. No other website I can find has this issue.
-Sometimes, after a few minutes they work again without any intervention from me.
-Sometimes, restarting the browser clears the problem.
-Most often deleting cookies clears the issue for an extended period, but it comes back.
-Sometime clearing he cache clears the problem for a shorter period.
-It is not an extension or add on issue.
-Disabling IPV6 did not help.
-It does not happen in IE or Pale Moon so not a system issue.
Any ideas what to try? I may have tried more that I am not recalling. Happy to play until this is found. It is annoying.
Thanks.
~Bob
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
*Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:<br>http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
*AdwCleaner:<br>http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/<br>http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
*SuperAntispyware:<br>http://www.superantispyware.com/
*Microsoft Safety Scanner:<br>http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
*Windows Defender:<br>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender
*Spybot Search & Destroy:<br>http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*Kasperky Free Security Scan:<br>http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
*Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:<br>http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
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