WinCustomize and Firefox 8

Published on November 18, 2011 By Fuzzy Logic In Forum Issues

I seem to be having problems accessing the forum via Firefox 8. About 80% of the time clicking on the forum tab causes FF to stop responding.

This is only on the WC forum, no other website does this, including other Stardock websites such as SOaSE.

While I've been typing this (in IE) I've been trying again - 5 times = 5 'not responding' messages - make that a 100% failrate!

This gobbledygook is probably of no use, but I'll post it anyway:-

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: firefox.exe
Application Version: 8.0.0.4325
Application Timestamp: 4eb4a985
Hang Signature: 174d
Hang Type: 0
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Hang Signature 1: 174d7024d286c2f1456052d085a73c5d
Additional Hang Signature 2: 81ea
Additional Hang Signature 3: 81eae66fe492365ef4531d937f4556b0
Additional Hang Signature 4: 174d
Additional Hang Signature 5: 174d7024d286c2f1456052d085a73c5d
Additional Hang Signature 6: 81ea
Additional Hang Signature 7: 81eae66fe492365ef4531d937f4556b0

Comments (Page 1)

LightStar

on Nov 18, 2011

Have you tried disabling all the Add-ons in Firefox Fuzzy?

PoSmedley

on Nov 18, 2011

I've had no issues with FF8 and WC. Try Lightstars suggestion and go through your add-ons. You should be able to restart FF with all of them disabled just to do a quick check.

Help>Restart with add-ons disabled

Fuzzy Logic

on Nov 22, 2011

Tried FF in safe mode - no difference.

Went to look at a few DVDs etc on Play.com - same issue, pages not loading. On some pages f5 caused the page to load.

Uninstalled FF8, installed FF7 and disabled auto update. Everything is now working as it should.

LightStar

on Nov 22, 2011

Just curious, have you tried FF 9.0 yet Fuzzy?

PoSmedley

on Nov 22, 2011

I'm sure you looked around for a solution. Here's a couple you may have seen or not.

Zone Alarm Force Field is a possible culprit. If you run ZoneAlarm, all you would need is to clear it's cache.
Outdated plug-ins - Here's a link to Mozillas FF Plug-In Checker . I thought all of mine were up to date til I went there to get you the link. It might be worth checking.

Fuzzy Logic

on Nov 22, 2011

No Zone Alarm, and running FF in safe mode disables all plug-ins.

Pages are loading a lot quicker in FF7... Hmm... I'll stick with this for a while - if it ain't broke and all that

Island Dog

on Nov 22, 2011

Yeah, I'm not seeing any issues here. Just give it a week, and Firefox 10 will be out.

StevenAus22

on Nov 22, 2011

And then a day after that, Firefox 11 will be out (gotta keep up with the Joneses! ).

DrJBHL

on Nov 22, 2011

Fuzzy... did you try re-installing (you probably did... just asking). And dl'ing only from mozilla.org?

The FF9 thing/Aurora might be more trouble than a simple re-install...

Uvah

on Nov 22, 2011

Using FF8 without problems.

tazgecko

on Nov 22, 2011

Fuzzy Logic

on Nov 23, 2011

There are so many versions of FF coming out lately, I'm just waiting for the one called iFox...

Snowman

on Nov 23, 2011

iFox

Fuzzy Logic

on Nov 23, 2011

Good grief.

2of3

on Nov 29, 2011

Just gonna borrow this thread rather than start a new one.

Since I "upgraded" to FF 8.0.1, the scroll to top arrow (the little arrow on the top right of every post) doesn't seem to be working anymore (WC forum).

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