Programs freezing solid
I have a problem that is very annoying if not potentially serious and it is recurring. Seems to start with Systems Profiler. When i open it there is a good chance it will freeze and i mean freeze. Nothing will make it quit. Won't force quit from either the force quit window or clicking the dock icon and choosing force quit from there. Each time the cursor goes across the system profiler window it turns to the coloured wheel. Firefox crashed about the same time. Can't remember if it happened that way before but FF is crashing a lot.
I found info in a book so opened Finder to access Activity Monitor but Finder froze too. I had opened Safari but that froze and wouldn't force quit either. The time stopped ticking on the dial up connection and the phone symbol ( for connection/disconnecting) also went inactive.
Had no choice but to disconnect the power.
I had hoped it wouldn't happen again after the other time but it has and i don't know why. None of the suggested remedies work. I hope i can send this message before any more problems surface. I'm using Safari however an older Safari is not as good as an older FF. But recently FF crashed 5 times in 20 minutes.
Can you please help. Out of 3 eMacs this is the only one i've had trouble with. Has it got anything to do with having 10.5 installed? i have heard its not a good idea to put 10.5 into an old eMac due to whatever is going on in the background.
Hope to read your answers tomorrow morning
eMac G4 PowerPC-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Firefox 3.6.28