Fladdy Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 My firefox is freezing on my computer Windows XP, and i have to close the task in taskmanager or else i cant start it up again Can someone help me? i think its something with my OS.And i cant install IE8 either, and IE doesn't start anymore after i tried to install IE8...Can someone write a .bat script that close the ff task?
Redhatcc Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 what version of FF do you have? and do you have xp home or xp pro or other?
Tripredacus Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Also, which version of IE8? I could not open IE8 Beta 1 on my computer after I installed it. But indeed, you need to post more info, including:IE versionFirefox versionXP versiontotal RAMfree hard drive space amount
cluberti Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Wait - multiple browsers refuse to open? IE and Firefox share absolutely no code, so are we sure the box is clean from malware?
Fladdy Posted February 14, 2009 Author Posted February 14, 2009 Windows Professional, SP2And it was the IE8 for that OS, got it from Techpowerup.I cant open IE8 cuz som problem , but i can open FF, but it will freeze quite often.And its the latest version of FF,The amount of RAM I'm not so sure but i think its 1GB Free HDD space is 30GB of 60 GB (Laptop) thats why so little..
cluberti Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 So any other apps behaving this way (freezing), or just FF? If so, try to get a hang dump of FF once it's hung.
Redhatcc Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 well just to check i would boot into safe mode w/ networking and browse around in there for a bit and see if it hangs up. also i would run a ram test with something like memtest or what not. just out of being a tech at work and seeing alot of old computers i tend to blame malware/ram for weird problems before anything else haha
majormashup Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 I would say it sounds like you have some kind of malware on the system but if you want a batch file to kill the process just copy the following into a text document and save it as whatever.bat:@echo offecho This will kill the firefox processpausetaskkill /im firefox.exethe echo and pause bits are just a safeguard to stop you accidentally closing it so take them out if you wish.
AO3 Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Run your web browser without add ons to see if you get the same problem.
Tripredacus Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Run your web browser without add ons to see if you get the same problem.I believe that this is in the Start Menu as Firefox (Safe Mode).
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