WinCustomize and Firefox 8
Friday, November 18, 2011 by Fuzzy Logic | Discussion: 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
Reply #2 Friday, November 18, 2011 8:47 PM
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
Reply #3 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 7:10 AM
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.
Reply #4 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 7:37 AM
Just curious, have you tried FF 9.0 yet Fuzzy?
Reply #5 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:05 AM
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- Outdated plug-ins - Here's a link to Mozillas FF Plug-In Checker .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.
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:09 AM
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 
Reply #7 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:33 AM
Yeah, I'm not seeing any issues here. Just give it a week, and Firefox 10 will be out. 
Reply #8 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:50 AM
And then a day after that, Firefox 11 will be out (gotta keep up with the Joneses! 
).
Reply #9 Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:51 AM
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...
Reply #12 Wednesday, November 23, 2011 4:44 AM
There are so many versions of FF coming out lately, I'm just waiting for the one called iFox...
Reply #15 Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:09 AM
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).
Reply #16 Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:27 AM
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).
Just for info, it does not work in IE9 either. Does not solve your problem but the "home" key on your keyboard will get you there! 
Reply #18 Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:05 AM
Fuzzy give FF away and use this one http://www.palemoon.org/ faster and most of the FF add onns work I gave FF the BIG A with version 4 (pale moon) ( version 8)
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Reply #1 Friday, November 18, 2011 8:17 PM
Have you tried disabling all the Add-ons in Firefox Fuzzy?