Not Responding

[fastmover]

Originally Posted by TomLiotta

Hmmm... apparently I need to be more clear.



That means that it had only a minimal effect. And by that I mean that I had fully disabled it before posting my comment. It helped some, but not much. Perhaps it made a 10% difference -- enough to notice, but far from satisfactory.

Is that clear enough?

But beyond that, I found a change that made a far greater difference.

I went into Control Panel-> System to change Performance Options. I doubled my minimum paging file size (as well as doubling the maximum.) The Windows recommended value was far too small. It seems that doubling the minimum size allocates, and reserves, initial space that is extremely useful to FF.

Four of my PCs so far, and four very improved response times. FF now seems only maybe 10% slower. Two of the PCs never had AVG installed at all, so I'm near certain Link Scanner wasn't involved to a huge degree, though it made a noticeable (yet minor) difference.

Hmmm... apparently I need to be more clear.

NO Tom I think you were perfectly clear.......

Maybe I wasn't, I said that disabling the link scanner
solved the problem, meaning "MY problem" and it Did
solve my problem on all 5 of my computers.

[fastmover]

Originally Posted by fastmover

Hmmm... apparently I need to be more clear.

NO Tom I think you were perfectly clear.......

Maybe I wasn't, I said that disabling the link scanner
solved the problem, meaning "MY problem" and it Did
solve my problem on all 5 of my computers.

Here it is from the horse's mouth........

http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-free...d=29275&type=0

[JLSchutt]

Firefox 3.6 is crashing with the "Not Responding" notice about 10 times a day for me - often 2 or 3 times within 10 minutes. Which web site I'm visiting doesn't seem to be related to the problem. I am not running AVG. Am on Windows 7 Home Premium. True, it's fairly easy to restart and re-establish tabs (I usually have 5 or 6 open), but it's still a nuisance.

--Jim--

[JLSchutt]

I never thought this day would come, but I have temporarily shut down Firefox 3.6 and re-established all my usual tabs in an Internet Explorer 8 window. Every few minutes today FF has been giving me either the "Not Responding" message (after which I have to close and reopen FF) or the explicit "FF has crashed" message (after which it restarts itself and recreates the tabs after displaying the "this is embarrassing" message.

One more thing before I step down from my soapbox: When FF crashes it asks me if I'd like to report the error and receive back some info about the problem. I always say yes and provide my email address. I have never in all the many months that I've been using FF received any email feedback.

--Jim--

[sweetlummi]

All that I have read here and trying to get is that it all come from AVG active surf-shield. I just got FF reload yesterday it was running good. to day it is slow in one post is read said to undo that so it did. But it still trying to load and has be go all the time I have typ here. So is the slowing coming for AVG toolbar and is it FF new up day. My other pc do not have this going on. But it is a Del to.

[JLSchutt]

I am suspecting that Trend Micro Internet Security might be causing my Firefox crashes. I used about:crashes and then clicked the most recent crash report. A Trend Micro crash [@msvcr80.dll@0xf880] is listed as a related crash. One of my add-ons is Trend Micro Toolbar 1.6.0.1126. I wonder if disabling that add-on might prevent the problem? I'm going to try it.

--Jim--

[sweetlummi]

Originally Posted by GirishMony

Have you tried opening Firefox in safe mode?

Ya I have done that to it do's not stay good very long if at all. there must be a firefox forum that can give help.

[JLSchutt]

I've been back running Firefox for several days with the Trend Micro Toolbar disabled. Seems to be much more stable - in fact, I remember only one crash. Will keep running this way for the time being.