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• Firefox hangs frequently on Windows 8.1

  Firefox has been suspended at apparently random times since I got my laptop Windows 8.1, who owns an i7, 8 GB of RAM and Intel HD 4600 Graphics.

  Hanging itself lasts anywhere from 10 seconds to a few minutes, and it usually freezes all other programs as well. It can happen at any time, regardless of the memory usage - when I open a new tab, when I type in the search bar, when I click on a bookmark, etc.

  This does not work on my Linux Mint partition, nor on my Windows 7 computer. In view of this fact and my laptop specs, I doubt that it's a hardware problem. My best guess is that one of my plugins/extensions is at the origin, which I believe have been met in the troubleshooting information.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Can you try disabling the hardware acceleration?

  1. Click the menu button

     

     then select Options.

  2. In the window of Firefox Options (or preferences), click on the Advanced tab, and then select general.
  3. You will find in the list of parameters, the checkbox use hardware acceleration when available . Clear this check box.
  4. Now restart Firefox and see if the problems persist.
  • Troubleshoot extensions, themes, and issues of hardware acceleration to resolve common problems of Firefox
  • Update your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL

• 34 Firefox hangs frequently... like all the recent versions.

  I keep the FF upgrade, it crashes on me. Last updated yesterday, still several accidents since then. Can Mozilla has really fix this bug? It happened for the last few versions.

  Best wishes to you also.

• Firefox hangs for a while when the download window appears

  Whenever I have start a file download (regardless of its size), Firefox hangs for a few seconds, sometimes more. I deleted the downloads.sqlite file and it helped for a few days but it started happening again. I deleted new downloads.sqlite but this time it would not help. I even installed the add-on DownThemAll as suggested some people, but it happens with it also.

  I use Firefox for 7-8 years now and never had any problems that cannot be solved, but this more a few more freezes or crashes from time to time starts to be annoying. I have all the major browsers installed because of my job, but kept FF as a default, but I'm starting to consider a switch after all these years.

  Can someone suggest a soluton? And I do not consider disabling the pop-up downloads a solution.

  Win 7 64 bit

  The reset Firefox feature can solve a lot of problems in restaurant Firefox to its factory default condition while saving your vital information.
  Note: This will make you lose all the Extensions, open Web sites and preferences.

  To reset Firefox, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to Firefox > help > troubleshooting information.
  2. Click on the button 'Reset Firefox'.
  3. Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is finished, it will display a window with the imported information. Click Finish.
  4. Firefox opens with all the default settings applied.

  Information can be found in the article Firefox Refresh - reset the settings and Add-ons .

  This solve your problems? Please report to us!

• Windows 8, firefox and mail - email works fine - but when I attach a doc - firefox hangs; I deleted firefox and reinstalled without success - IE even.

  Under FireFox 18.0 in windows 8 - I can't attach a file/doc in mail - FF accidents; When I try even in Internet Explorer - IE will crash; but when I do same in Gmail - I can attach and send the docs - a knowledge that history is in the FF and attachments?

  You said that the problem occurs with IE as well. This is not a Firefox problem, but rather a problem with your computer.

• Firefox hangs and then greys out

  After a short period of normal use, Firefox hangs and when I try to click on a new page of image greys out partially. On the top of my screen it says that Firefox is not responding. My only course of action is close the program down. When I do a small window opens saying Firefox is not responding and gives the possibility of closing the program or waiting so that he could respond.
  I tried to remove Flash 11.3 and 10.3 installation - no change.
  Tried to delete and reinstall Firefox - no change.
  Don't disable all plugins - no change.
  Tried to restore the PC to a previous point - no change

  The reset Firefox feature can solve a lot of problems in restaurant Firefox to its factory default condition while saving your vital information.
  Note: This will make you lose all the Extensions, open Web sites and preferences.

  To reset Firefox, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to Firefox > help > troubleshooting information.
  2. Click on the button 'Reset Firefox'.
  3. Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is finished, it will display a window with the imported information. Click Finish.
  4. Firefox opens with all the default settings applied.

  Information can be found in the article Firefox Refresh - reset the settings and Add-ons .

  This solve your problems? Please report to us!

• I don't want firefox to reopen old windows when it restarts

  On the rare occasions where Firefox hangs and I restart, I often find myself having the same problem that led to the initial accident because Firefox is trying to restore all of the windows of the previous session. I looked in preferences, but cannot find a way to change this behavior. I don't want to try and reopen old windows when it restarts, just go to my home page and I would like to resume windows manually. I can only put somehow?

  You can disable the curriculum vitae of the option of crash by changing a hidden preference.

  1. Type of topic: config in the address bar and press on enter
  2. Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
  3. In the filter box, type crash
  4. Double-click the browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash preference to change its value false

• Yosemite MAC, when I open Firefox I get two windows, when I click on a link in mail, it opens a window not a tab.

  I place the FireFox icon in the dock. When I click to open FireFox it opens two windows both to the homepage. When you click on a link in the email, it will open a window behind the first window rather that open in a tab. There used to be a preference re: opening links, but given that it was useful, it seems that Apple has removed this option unless it's hidden somewhere I can't find.

  What you have is, in my view, two problems.

  • Homepage

  Type of topic: preferences #general< enter > in the address bar.

  There are two settings;

  • At the start of Firefox

  When the browser is started, what you want
  view. Many of us choose view my homepage.

  • Homepage

  When a new page opens up, what do you want displayed.

  1. Use current Page. Use the pages that are never open at this time.
  2. Use the bookmark
  3. Restore by default. topic: Home shows a home page of Mozilla with tools.

  You can use one of these as you want;

  topic: Home (Default Firefox homepage),
  on: newtab (displays the more visited sites),
  Subject: vacuum (a blank page),

  or you can enter any web page or Subject: page you want.

• My Yahoo Mail is "" forcing me to switch to Firefox by turning my functions in basic. Firefox is compatible with windows 7 for home and student?

  Hi, I have a Yahoo Mail account for many years. Now, they have turned my account in base saying that my IE9 is no longer supported and they are "" forcing me to download Firefox otherwise I have to continue with basic messaging. Firefox is compatible with windows 7 for home and studens? If I download firefox it will affect all the files I have on my computer? Will this affect my windows mail? Thanks for a quick reply.

  Fortuna2015 said

  Firefox is compatible with windows 7 for home and studens?

  As far as I know, Firefox runs on all variants of Windows 7. Firefox works better with a lot of memory, so if your system has 2 GB of memory, you may be limited in the number of windows and tabs you can open simultaneously before things get bogged down compared to a system that has 4 GB of memory.

  If I download firefox it will affect all the files I have on my computer? Will this affect my windows mail?

  As a web browser, you can configure Firefox to your default program to open web pages and links. If you do this, while some icons may change, for example, links to web pages can change to an icon of Firefox. In addition, Firefox has a built-in PDF reader, but you can still use Adobe Reader or another program to read PDF files if you want.

  Are you using Windows Live Mail or another standalone program to retrieve messages? Firefox be involved with it because these programs to get the mail directly, not not using your browser. But if you make Firefox your default for links Manager, when you click on a link in the e-mail software, it will open in Firefox instead of Internet Explorer.

  Other things:

  (1) attention to the download links at random in search engine results. You can get Firefox here (scroll to your preferred language):

  https://www.Mozilla.org/Firefox/all/

  (2) I'm sure after Firefox is started the first time, you will have many questions. The program should give you a little tour of routine, and you can use our support articles for more information: https://support.mozilla.org/products/firefox

  (3) you must install IE11 because there are still a few sites that use patented technologies and are not displayed in Firefox, such as Windows update

  http://www.Microsoft.com/en-us/download/Internet-Explorer-11-for-Windows-7-details.aspx

• Firefox hangs on a particular site

  Whenever I go to NYtimes.com, Firefox crashes. I have checked that FF and plug-ins are up to date, remove the cookies from the Nytimes, cleared the cache and tried the site in loading safe mode. No luck yet.

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  Thanks for your help.

  Create a new profile as a test to see if your profile is the source of the problem.

  See "create a profile":

  • https://support.Mozilla.org/KB/Profile-Manager-create-and-remove-Firefox-profiles
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Profile_issues

  If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a profile already used in the new profile, but be careful not to copy files corrupted to avoid transporting more problems.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

  Do a clean reinstall and delete the program folder before Firefox to (re) install a new copy of the current version of Firefox.

  • Download the installer of Firefox and save the file to the desktop
    https://www.Mozilla.org/en-us/Firefox/all/

  If possible to uninstall your current version of Firefox to clean the Windows registry and settings in the security software.

  • Do NOT remove the "personal data" when you uninstall your current version of Firefox, because this will remove all profile folders and you lose personal data such as bookmarks and passwords including data profiles created by other versions of Firefox.

  Delete the program folder Firefox before installing newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer.

  • (32-bit Windows) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\"
  • (Windows 64 bit) "C:\Program Files (x 86) \Mozilla.
  • It is important to remove the Firefox program folder to delete all the files and make sure that there is no problem with the files that were the remains after uninstallation.
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox

  Your bookmarks and other personal data are stored in the Firefox profile folder and will not be affected by a uninstall and (re) install, but do NOT delete personal data when you uninstall Firefox which removes all Firefox profile folders and you lose your data.

  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
  • http://KB.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Clean_reinstall

• Firefox hanging up or if overwrite everytime that I open it. Does not open in either safe mode.

  I tried to delete the history of navigation and web when closing Firefox and this problem occurred with Firefox hanging up immediately do not except on 'force quit' opening and closing can totally do not at all. It will not open in past just zilch Mode safe! Nothing I've tried has worked. I've deleted and reinstalled Firefox, it but the same happens immediately.
  I am a senior and not a tech head! So need some simple instructions. Currently I use Safari and but would go back to Firefox and reinstalled again so I can access my bookmarks.
  Thanks for your help.

  Oops, you press the wrong key. To continue,
  Press the button on the screen to create a blank profile.
  This will do nothing for the current profile.

  If this new profile works, then we can work on the copy of the old profile to the new.

• Firefox 64-bit for Windows

  Y at - it no hope to get Firefox 64-bit for windows soon?
  My problem is Firefox + JDK/netbeans-bundle on 64-bit Windows 8.
  Everything else can be 64-bit, but Firefox. If Firefox wants JRE 32 bit for normal navigation, but 64-bit JDK installation replaces it with 64 bit that does not work on Firefox.

  Installation of JDK/NB-bundle 32 bit on 64 bit Win8.1 crashes.

  So it's a JDK/NB or Java compatible Firefox, but not both?
  Or y at - it a simple way to tell Firefox to look at another directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_20) when the other SW is looking in the default directory (C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_20)?)

  I know that the problem has three parts: Microsoft, Oracle and Mozilla, but Mozilla seems to be one with no option (64-bit) "in progress."

  SuperSluethe, please do not suggest that the web site because it links just a random accumulation of 35.0a1 of the channel of Nightly development without any warning. This channel is a bleeding edge and gets check-ins almost everyday as well so that they get an update of each of these days.

  As for 64-bit Linux, they can get those clean https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

• What will be the official Firefox for x 64 Windows will be released?

  What will be the official Firefox for x 64 Windows will be released? Please note that Chrome has recently published its x 64 official version for Windows.

  Not the Win64 is not paused. Of course it was not a priority for work on Win64 since he was moved to the level 3 support in December 2012 as Mozilla putting the Win64 on channel every night on hold before then that is where the idea to be paused. There is a main bug report that must be treated with some potential closer to the occurrence of liberation there.

• cannot access the internet after upgrading to firefox 30.0 on windows 7

  After the upgrade to firefox 30.0 on windows 7, cannot access the internet. FF 30.0 works OK under Vista

  Sometimes it's because of your security software thinking that the upgrade may not be legitimate. You can consult this article: problems connecting to websites after Firefox update.

• Everytime I open firefox, I get a window that opens. Doesn't happen with IE or Chrome

  Whenever I open Firefox, I get another window that opens on the home page. It's almost empty with a few lines at the top of the page and the registration of the user of words. It has happened since Firefox updated on my computer yesterday, even after uninstalling and reinstalling.

  That's great! Please make sure you choose the solution so that others can benefit from. Also, it's users like you that make the difference when you report.

  Thank you!