Mac OS X Lion freezes

Hi,
Since I've upgraded to Lion I have problems with Mac OS X Lion(10.7.2) and same problems occurred with previous versions of Lion.
I was thinking that it was a problem with Microsoft's RDC but it still freezes without this application being started.
So, I have upgraded all of the possible software for my MacBookPRO
15" - Early 2011, i7 2.2, 8GB ram, AMD Radeon HD 6750M / 1GB, 512Apple SSD
Still it freezes, and I have narrowed the applications to (at least those were running all the time when it is happening)
Safari, Firefox, Microsoft Office Outlook.
Thing here is that in the beginning I can switch between applications, but as soon as I try to quit them all apps are having status (Not responsive) from the Force Quit menu.
Only thing I can do is moving my cursor.
It never happened that it freezes too.
Any help/suggestions would be more than welcome
Thanks!

I had a terrible time with Lion freezing on me multiple times per day, until....
Last Saturday (Feb. 11, 2012) I made sure my HD was backed up in Time Capsule on my brand new LaCie 500GB storage device. For good measure I also cloned the HD using Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
but I did not need to use it.
Then I started up from my old copy of Snow Leopard in order to access Disk Utility from it (Hold "C"; Restart). I completely erased the HD on my iMac using Disk Utility then reinstalled the latest backup from Time Machine (I did not install Snow Leopard). Ever since then I have had no problems with freezing. I guess it could be a fluke but so far, so good. Websites also seem to load a lot faster now.
I also got rid of Perian. Wheather that had anything to do with it, i don't know. I only did it because someone else in these forums suggested it.
BTW,
I had Sophos for a while but deleted it last fall and replaced it with ClamX-AV. This was on the advice of my local Mac store. Apparently Sophos can really gum things up.

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1458653 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          6
Anonymous UUID:                    70BA6A**************************************************
Sun Sep 16 23:00:13 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002c4794): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8000290560, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000800028, CR3: 0x000000000a509005, CR4: 0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000001, RBX: 0x0000000000820000, RCX: 0xffffff801122dc40, RDX: 0x0000000000020501
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R12: 0xffffff800342d280, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff8011cd6500, R15: 0x0000000000800000
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0xffffff80ef3d3ca0 : 0xffffff8000290560
0xffffff80ef3d3dc0 : 0xffffff800026c9c3
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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed, as well as certain other aspects of the configuration that may have a bearing on the problem. Don’t be alarmed by the apparent complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
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Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. Step 1 should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
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Remember that you must be logged in as an administrator for this step. Do as in Step 1 with this line:
{ echo "Loaded system agents:"; sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix\.cron)|org\.(amav|apac|cups|isc|ntp|postf|x)/{print $3}'; echo $'\n'"Login hook:"; sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook; echo $'\n'"Root cron tasks:"; sudo crontab -l; echo $'\n'"Log check:"; syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|pagin|timed? ?o' | tail | awk '/:/{$4=""; print}'; } 2> /dev/null | open -ef
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which you do have to type. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type it carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Heed that warning, but don't post it. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
You can then quit Terminal.
To prevent confusion, I'll repeat: When you type your password in the Terminal window, you won't see what you're typing.
Note: If you don’t have a login password, set one before taking Step 2. If that’s not possible, skip the step.
Important: If any personal information, such as your name or email address, appears in the output of these commands, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
Remember, Steps 1 and 2 are all copy-and-paste — no typing, except your password. Also remember to post the output as text, not as a screenshot.
Please post the contents of the TextEdit window, not the Terminal window.

OS X Lion freezes my MacBook Pro

Hello everyone,
I've got a 15' MacBook Pro since November 2010, it came with OS X Snow Leopard, and everything was fine with it. No bugs, no freezing, no problems... I could use it without having to restart the computer for months.
I made the upgrade to Lion in July 2011, and since that day, my MacBook Pro freezes randomly quite often. Sometimes it's when I'm checking my emails for example I click on "answer" and the MacBook Pro freezes, there is this multicolor whirl, I can't do anything. I've to shut down the Mac by holding the power button for a while. It doesn't happen only with mail, it happens randomly like I said. For example, when I'm watching a YouTube video or watching photos in iPhoto... even when I only use the finder to find a file.
To repair this problem, I tried everything :
- I made a clean install of Lion (I thought, maybe some Snow Leopard parts were the problem).
- I made a repair of the permissions, a repair of the disk, well, everything that could help the Mac to work better like PRAM reset, NTFC reset, etc
- I completely erased the disk, and I made a clean install of Lion.
I don't think it's an hardware problem, because everything was fine with Snow Leopard. If you know something I could do in order to have a Mac without bugs and freezing. And don't tell me to reinstall Snow Leopard, cause I really need iCloud.
Thanks in advance

OK everyone, I may have found the solution, with a very clean install, everything seems to work fine now.
What I did: I downloaded Lion to create a USB installer, then I launched it, in disc utility, I erased the disc, and also the empty space (about 2 hours).
With my hard drive all cleaned, I installed Lion using the USB key, (about 20min).
Since, I tried eveything, I opened all my programs, I used YouTube and every websites with Flash. I tried eveything that could make it freeze. Nothing, so I think that's the solution of many freezing problems.
And the Mac seems to be faster than before... So it's strange, cause I already did that before, except the Install from a USB key. Maybe it's that.

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Flash player no longer working in Google Chrome -- Chrome Version 22.0.1229.79, Mac OS X Lion. Flash works fine in Safari and Firefox. Pages with flash freeze -- can't scroll (e.g, nytimes.com); on youtube, sound plays but the video windows are black spaces. This problem appeared Sept. 26, 2012. I was running Snow Leopard; updated to Lion in hopes this would resolve the problem, but the problem is still there. If I go to chrome:plugins and disable Flash, I can scroll around nytimes.com and the flash box/window just tells me to install flash.
I have tried: Clearing Cache and all other data in Chrome. Going to the Library in Finder and deleting the Google folder from Library>Caches, then uninstalling Chrome and reinstalling it. None of these have fixed the problem.

Are you using a 2nd monitor? It appears to be related to that, and somebody somewhere is working on it. When I disconnected my external monitor, the problem disappeared on my laptop; apparently there will be an update to Chrome -- though not necessarily a stable one yet -- beginning next week to address the problem. See here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152525

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I'm having to many problems with Lion freezing up and want to go back to Snow Leopard,how can I do this?

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Crashed my Mac and had Apple restore OSX. Upgraded go Lion and started restoring my data from a WD hard drive connected using a USB cable. I'm finding that I can restore my JPEG images, but Lion freezes if there is a quicktime file included in the restore and I have to force a shut down. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

I am having the same issue. Time Machine backup to Time Capsule starts then freezed the OS and a hard machine reset is all that will work. My machines with Snow Leopard do not have this problem.. This is causing me a lot of problems and no one at Apple seems to know or care why this is happening...

Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8.3 suddenly became extremely slow, need help!

Hi everybody!
I need help with my Mac OS Mountain Lion.
Was working fine with it since it got released, but yesterday suddenly it became exteremely slow. It literally thinks for 20 minutes on any operation I'm trying to do, showing me the loading spin icon. Screen freezes, everything is not responsive at all and I just have to wait for ages till something is moved a bit and then it thinks again.
I don't see anything in particular in the logs. CPU load is low, memory using is low, all temperatures are fine. I even cleaned up the stuff with CleanMyMac app, didn't help.
Checked the hard drive with Disk Utility - didn't help either.
Please help, I'm hopeless and out of ideas what's wrong with it.
Thanks

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing, regardless of SMART status or anything else.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Mountain Lion Freezes and crashes Safari.

Tried to download Mountain Lion to my Mac Desktop but it freezes after 53mb.
Now when I try to open Safari it says it aborted unexpectedly and advise to click reopen.
When I do this it just takes me back to the error message page.
Anyone care to help / advise?

First run the two resets and then try Safe Mode
SMC RESET
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and ALL peripherals.
Wait 15 seconds.
Attach the computers power cable.
Wait another 5 seconds and press the power button to turn on the computer.
The 5 second timing is important to a successful reset.
PRAM RESET
Zap the PRAM
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
Safe Mode

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