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When I am surfing the web, my computer screen frequently freezes and the screen stays"firefox not responding" at the top of screen. What is causing this?

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Usually after a minute or so, the computer screen responds and I am able to complete what I was doing.

Usually after a minute or so, the computer screen responds and I am able to complete what I was doing.

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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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this did not stop the problem I was having