Not a hang, but I got an Adobe "crash" in FFF5, I retried and it worked, but I think it was a PDF file. I'd have thought Adobe had gotten reading PDF files down by now...
Firefox 5
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It seems to be an issue with plug-in containers. They don't seem to close out properly. I'm not sure though. I usually have any number of other things running and those can sometimes cause a temporary hang-up. I can usually tell in those cases what the problem is by looking at what processes are running in Task Manager.
Some time when you get a chance, go to the Amazon website and see if there's a momentary hang-up. In the past day or two I've noticed a hang-up with that website, to the point that I've sometimes ended the plug-in container for Amazon. Some times it's barely noticeable, and some times it will really hang.
Interesting. So far, FF5 is working better for me than FF4 did, including the PDFs and other pages I had problems with. Although one particular site doesn't seem to be loading too well (but that one's been optimised for IE) and another doesn't load at all (that one targets only IE).
Otherwise, FF5 is okay so far.
Otherwise, FF5 is okay so far.
I haven't had any real problem with FF5. I've just noticed a problem with Amazon, Google maps, and a couple of other sites in the last day or two. Again, I can't say whether it's directly related to FF5 or not yet.
I haven't had much of a problem with Google maps, but have yet to try Amazon (don't really go to the site much these days). Will attempt to remember to update when I've tried Amazon.
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I installed it on Vista and needless to say, none of my skins were compatible with it, and it kept coming up with a popup every time I loaded FF asking to ignore or do something else with said add-ons. "Ignore" never worked so that was annoying in and of itself.
Otherwise, it loaded slow, ran extremely slow, and I uninstalled it within the first hour of using it. Maybe it's the OS? Too many bookmarks and add-ons installed? I'm not sure but I won't be installing 5 again anytime soon.
Otherwise, it loaded slow, ran extremely slow, and I uninstalled it within the first hour of using it. Maybe it's the OS? Too many bookmarks and add-ons installed? I'm not sure but I won't be installing 5 again anytime soon.
Amazon works for me, but now that you mention it I've had at least one site that seemed to load slow or not at all - I've been going here for weeks with no problem. I was wondering if the ISP was flaky but I checked other sites and they came up fine. I finally did get it to come up:
http://projecteuler.net
(my apologies if you're a nerd and don't get anything done for the next several weeks)
I'm more of an architectural/structural engineering nincompoop than a nerd . . . or even a computer expert.
The next time you see a slow-down (at whatever site), look and see if a plug-in is trying to come up to speed.
The next time you see a slow-down (at whatever site), look and see if a plug-in is trying to come up to speed.
I'm seeing memory leaks in a fairly large way on Mac OS X; FF5 isn't doing garbage collection properly.
Nothing wrong at all. Actually, I miss the library terminals because I used to be able to bypass the menu screens and websurf using Lynx.
Same thing on Windows. I installed it on one of my machines to see how badly it broke things, and while breaks were some, the worst part was the consistent use of 300+ MB RAM.
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I guess I'm the only person who is having problems with 5. With disturbing regularity, I get the dreaded (not responding) when trying to open web pages, click links in web pages, do anything in a web page while using 5.
And it will sit, hung up, for upwards of almost a minute.
In the meantime, I get IE loaded and heading for where I was going by the time it 'unhangs'.
And it will sit, hung up, for upwards of almost a minute.
In the meantime, I get IE loaded and heading for where I was going by the time it 'unhangs'.
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Firefox 5 wouldn't play embedded videos for me yesterday, even though it worked fine that night. And it wasn't my computer since Chrome would play embedded videos just fine.
I'd click play and it was pretty much like there wasn't a video there. Couldn't even click on it if it was a youtube video to open it in a different window. I had to uninstall the whole thing completely and reinstall for it to work again. Not only that, but I couldn't sign into Playstation's website. Wouldn't let me type in my email or password, let alone click sign in.
Pretty much the first time that's ever happened to me. Dunno why it did that, though.
I'd click play and it was pretty much like there wasn't a video there. Couldn't even click on it if it was a youtube video to open it in a different window. I had to uninstall the whole thing completely and reinstall for it to work again. Not only that, but I couldn't sign into Playstation's website. Wouldn't let me type in my email or password, let alone click sign in.
Pretty much the first time that's ever happened to me. Dunno why it did that, though.
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The Plugins Firefox uses get rather high as well. It'll show one, sometimes three in my processes, though most of the time, it's only one that'll be close to 100,000 k. Firefox will go up to 700,000 k, too. I know with Firefox 3 and 4, it used more memory because of add-ons. Disable the add-ons and it'll go down in memory usage. Not sure about 5, though.
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Firefox 4 & 5 seem to be huge memory sucks. It sounds like the memory usage might be getting a bit too high for your system to handle - that's when Firefox (and/or other programs) begin to start acting real buggy.
That happened to me also and I had to uncheck the "Use Hardware Acceleration" option (right-click flash player.)
Anyway, even though my system has a lot of RAM memory, I still went back to ver 3.6.
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I found a 3.6 version and so far, have had no issues with it freezing up on me.
Thanks for the nudge!
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I get warnings that the plugin container is using too much CPU when playing Flash games, but I think I got those in 4 too. Discovered that the Mac can't run 5 (add that to the list of things that Mac can't run, then!) so it's running 3.6. Pesky password problem still there.