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Old 08-04-2005, 11:45 PM   #1
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firefox hangs


I am using firefox version 1.0.4. It was working well. Since yesterday. I dont know why it is getting hanged now. Its really a problem.
Is there any way i can find out its getting hung?
Can anyone help me?
 
Old 08-05-2005, 12:05 AM   #2
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have you tried disabling extensions, etc??

you should really consider upgrading to 1.0.6 either way (for the security fixes, etc.)...
 
Old 08-05-2005, 12:16 AM   #3
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Can you elaborate? At what point does it hang? While loading, browsing a particular site?

Try launching it from a Terminal Window. Error messages will be written there.
 
Old 08-05-2005, 12:24 AM   #4
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Removing all the extensions really worked. But I recently read an article how to fasten firefox. And in that they gave to add extensions will fasten it.
While launching it used to give problems.


Now, its ok.
Thank you
 
Old 08-05-2005, 02:00 AM   #5
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Fasten Firefox? What do you mean? Do you mean secure it?
 
Old 08-05-2005, 04:01 AM   #6
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No I have got a procedure to make firefox run fast without any delay.I will paste the procedure below. I think its worth doing

PROCEDURE
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he Firefox Web browser is quickly becoming one of the most prominent Web browsers available. The fact that it is cross-platform makes it a comfortable browser for users who have to use more than one OS. There are, however, a number of hidden "gems" that you can enable that make Firefox even more powerful than it is "out of the box."

To increase the speed of opening Web pages, there are two options you can tweak. The first is to enable HTTP pipelining, which allows Firefox to request multiple files simultaneously rather than one at a time. To enable this, type about:config in the address bar. Scroll down the list until you find network.http.pipelining and set it to true. You can also enable network.http.proxy.pipelining as well.

To speed up rendering speeds, you can tell Firefox not to wait the default quarter second before drawing Web content. The option to look for here is the nglayout.initialpaint.delay, but it may not be displayed in the preference list by default. If not, right-click on the screen and select New | Integer. Type nglayout.initialpaint.delay as the preference name and the number 0 as the value. By default, Firefox uses a value of 250 (milliseconds).

Finally, the last gem is not a preference modification but an invaluable extension that is extremely useful for anyone doing Web development. In Firefox, click Tools | Extensions and a new box will open. Click on Get More Extensions. In the new page that opens, click on Developer Tools under the All Extensions sidebar. Jump to the last page and install the Web Developer extension. Once the extension is installed, restart Firefox and you'll see a new toolbar with a number of options that include the ability to quickly validate HTML and CSS, view image dimensions, outline tables and table cells, and a lot more.




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Old 08-07-2005, 10:43 PM   #7
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Hi,
As I told, my firefox does not hang. But I cannot play the music online. I use hindifm.com to listen to music. As it opens a Popup window o play the music, it doea not play. Its just telling that it is tranferring data, but not playing.
 
  


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