Gmail hangs my FireFox

By The Backpackr on Saturday, 18 of October, 2008 at 11:04 am

Has anyone encountered FireFox freezing up when accessing Gmail? It seemed to happen quite often for me, and I realized the common site being accessed was always Gmail. Too much Ajax happening in the background?

Gmail locks up FireFox

Perhaps this will force me to upgrade from FireFox 2.0.0.16 to the new spunky FireFox 3?

If this is happening to you, a suggestion by a certain amanda on troublefixers.com was to clear the browser cache by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Del. I’m not sure when you do this - AFTER it freezes once, then restarting FireFox, or to just do it periodically?

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3 Comments

Comment by Jek Tan

Made Saturday, 25 of October, 2008 at 9:25 pm

I use 2.0.0.17 with gmail all the time and it is fine.

If you are upgrading to version 3… be ready for the “awesome bar”… which I don’t find so awesome… that’s why I’m still on version 2.

Comment by Anthony

Made Monday, 17 of November, 2008 at 10:25 am

yea Jek Tan
its not awesome at all :(
that’s strange gmail work fine for me ….

report it to mozilla your voice is heard :)

Comment by The Backpackr

Made Monday, 8 of December, 2008 at 11:33 pm

And now that I’m on a Macbook Pro, Firefox also seemingly shuts down by itself at times too! And I feel it’s also Ajax related… like when I’m on Gmail or doing something on Facebook.

Then again, I surf with at least 10 different tabs open at once.

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