Browser Help

[Badger]

Lately, Firefox has been freezing for a second every few seconds. This usually occurs after I open youtube.com, and then other doesn't stop even after I close the youtube tab.

Things that it is not:

• My PC (Or rather, a lack of performance on my PC's part.)
• My Internet Connection
• Firefox (Happens with Chrome as well, not even bothering to test with IE.)
• Sessionstore:Interval

Any help?

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Scan for viruses?

[Badger]

I am doing right now. I'm pretty sure I haven't got any, I did a scan a couple days ago that came up with nothing.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

What anti-virus do you use?

If it's AVG, set it so it can detect Tracking Cookies too - you'd be surprised at what they can do

[SKBT]

It's adobe flash that's causing the problem... Redownload the latest version from adobe.

[Badger]

What anti-virus do you use?

If it's AVG, set it so it can detect Tracking Cookies too - you'd be surprised at what they can do

Kaspersky, but I'm using MalWareBytes to do the scan.

It's adobe flash that's causing the problem... Redownload the latest version from adobe.

I did that a couple days ago. Re-installing java has seemed to work, but it's not been long enough to be sure.

[HurricaneAndrew]

If it turns out that Flash Player isn't what is causing it, I would say it may be a lack of sufficient RAM.

If you have a lot of icons that open in the tray down by the clock on start-up, such as messengers or other unnecesary programs, go into each program and set them to not open when Windows starts. This would free up some RAM and should help.

If that's not it, the only thing you could do is upgrade your RAM. It isn't that hard to do, but depending on the type of RAM your machine takes, it may be a bit pricey.

Hope this helps.

[Badger]

I have 8gb (2x 4gb DDR3 sticks).