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Why is Firefox 5 unresponsive and locking up my Mac ?

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woodsterman
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Firefox 4 was awful, but Firefox 5 isn't much better. I have had to force quit Firefox 5 several times. It is also very slow and at times unresponsive. It slows down my whole Mac Book Pro, and makes other Apps unresponsive at the same time.

I never had a problem with Firefox 3.6

Firefox 4 was awful, but Firefox 5 isn't much better. I have had to force quit Firefox 5 several times. It is also very slow and at times unresponsive. It slows down my whole Mac Book Pro, and makes other Apps unresponsive at the same time. I never had a problem with Firefox 3.6

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jasonbauer
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For what it's worth, I too was having the issue with FireFox 5.01. It would work breifly after a "force quit" then would go unresponsive again. I ended up installing the beta 6, and my problems went away.

woodsterman
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I'm now using Firefox 6.0.2 and it is better, but please guys in the front office it ain't much better. I still have to force quit it often. It is soooo slow, and forget running another app with it. I just tried Firefox 3.6.20 again, and it is by far a smoother experience.

I can't believe that anyone at Mozilla uses this stuff. If they did they would fix it.