Firefox 7.0.1 all of a sudden is hanging up (15 sec. or so) after clicking onto any website from the Bookmarks toolbar. I'm on an iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
3 months ago I upgraded to Firefox 7.0.1 and up until this week, everything worked fine. Now, on occasions, after clicking onto any website from the browser, I get the notorious (for Mac users) spinning beach ball for 15 seconds or so, before I can connect with the site. It seems to be increasing as well.
When I use Safari as my browser, I don't have these problems, but I would prefer to fix the Firefox problem because I do like Firefox. But if this continues, I will just go with Safari.
What should I do?
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Just read that the default memory storage on FF is set to 5 mbs. You can up that by clicking on tools, advanced and overriding the default and set it to 50 mbs (if you use lots of tabs) or 10 mbs (if you use just a few).
I open a blank tab and clear the cache periodically, while I am working. I can have several tabs open and watch videos on Youtube, by doing this. Have you cleared your cache?
Since I have an older computer, I've also used CCleaner for years. I use it often, but always before signing off. You can get it free...search for CCleaner, download from Pirifoam free. I didn't change any of the settings and it clears crap left behind from uninstalling programs, clears all browsers at once of: cookies, history, passwords, etc. I love it!
I had freezing, before using the "open blank tab, clear the cache" thing. Now I have no problems. Plus, as I said...you can change the default memory usage for FF and that should help too.
Hope this helps! Good luck! :)
The default of the pref network.http.max-connections has been increased from 30 to 256 in Firefox 6+ versions.
Try to decrease the value of the pref network.http.max-connections from 255 to a setting like 30 as used in Firefox 3 versions.
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