PTS Posted March 4, 2010 Posted March 4, 2010 I'm a Microsoft fan but Firefox is head and shoulders ahead of everyone else including IE.
DrFishfinder Posted March 4, 2010 Posted March 4, 2010 Run Malwarebytes AntiMalware first. It is free. (It will say 30 day free trial, but it will continue to work as a manual scanner/manual update after that period.) Then run SuperAntiSpyware, the free version is fine. Remove whatever these two programs find. Install WOT on all of your browsers. http://www.mywot.com/ While nothing can keep you completely safe, WOT would likely have stopped you before you visited a bad website where it looks like you picked up a minor cootie. Finally, run HijackThis and check your results by uploading a log of the results to this page: http://www.hijackthis.de/ Fix whatever the log analyzer suggests is nasty/bad/etc. But be very careful with this. If you have any doubts, don't bother with the HijackThis part, or have someone who knows the program do it for you. I did the Malwarebytes already. I'll run the other stuff as well. Many obligatoids, Dean
bbb Posted March 4, 2010 Posted March 4, 2010 While FF addons are updated automatically, plugins are not. Check out this page and see if you need to update something (you will need to allow javascript on this page): http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ If you still crash, start disabling your addons and plugins to see if one of those is at fault. Thanks - I have a lot of out of date ones it seems, but there is a ton listed. Which plugs-ins do I need, and which do I not want....My shockwave flash is out of date, and I suspect that is the biggest problem
Pete Posted March 4, 2010 Posted March 4, 2010 I have a Mac and am not a big fan of Safari. It tends to freeze my computer up and frequently becomes unresponsive. So I installed Chrome. It is ok- but there are a couple things I do not like. For one, it is not obvious when a page is loading. I don't see a refresh button. And most of all- I miss my Google toolbar! There must be a way to have a google toolbar in chrome, right?
Joe Miner Posted March 4, 2010 Posted March 4, 2010 I love Firefox and use it at work on my machine running XP. I got a new laptop at the end of last year, and was running it on Windows 7 and every time I closed it, I had to go to the task manager and end the process before I could start it back up. That got annoying, so I switched to Chrome. I'd like to go back to Firefox, but haven't seen or heard of this being a problem with anyone else. Any thoughts?
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