Firefox

[pataka]

I'm having problems with Firefox; it's been telling me "not responding" when I start it up, eventually it gets started but I was having to wait for it for ages, so I tried reinstalling it. The not responding has improved but isn't completely cured, and I am not enjoying this new version! It told me that my Realplayer plugin wasn't compatible with

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[nigelmouse]

have you checked the add-ons in the tools menu ? maybe you've got a rogue add-on that is doing bad things ?

Try removing any add-on that you don't know what it does (you could remove them all as they aren't required for firefox to work and easily re-installed if they're required).

[pataka]

Mind if I list what I've got? I don't know that I'd recognise a rogue add-on! These are the extensions:

AVG Safesearch, Google Toolbar for Firefox, IE Tab, Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant, Realplayer Browser Record Plugin (which is greyed out and says not compatible with Firefox 3.5.3)

And the plugins:

Adobe Acrobat, BBC iPlayer Plugin, Entriq Download Manager Mozilla Plugin, IE tab plug-in, iTunes Application Detector, Java Deployment Toolkit 6.0.150.3, Java Platform SE 6 U12, Java Platform SE 6 U15, Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin, Mozilla Default Plug-in, Napster Link, npruntime Entriq Version Check Plugin, Quicktime Plug-in 7.6.4, RealJukebox NS Plugin, RealPlayer Version Plugin, RealPlayer G2 Liveconnect-Enabled Plug-in, Shockwave Flash, Silverlight Plug-in, Windows Presentation Foundation.

Does anything stand out? If not, I'll proceed to removing them (which kinda makes me nervous!)

[nigelmouse]

The Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant has been in the news recently for having bugs in which could be a security/stability problem, but I don't think that's the cause of your problem. My brother is experiencing something incredibly similar to you on his mac.

[pataka]

I had a dialogue box come up and tell me this so I disabled it and that seems to have made a difference! Yay! I'll hold off on removing anything else while I see how it goes.

...What could be making my computer slow to start up?

[thermaland]

When Firefox 3.5 came out I installed it and it kept crashing so I've reverted to an older version. Which version are you using?

[pataka]

Version 3.5.3. How do you revert to an older version?

[thermaland]

You have to download it but I wouldn't recommend it; I'm sure they've ironed out the bugs by now. it was 3.5.0 obviously that was dodgy.

[pataka]

But my realplayer plugin is no longer compatible and I've got that annoying bubble thing! I seem to have swapped one set of problems for another, I only wanted it to stop hanging :(