I am having issues with Firefox when i have 1 , 2 , 3 webpages open at once. When i try to scroll thru one, or close one or open another i get the spinning ball and have to force quit the application. Can anyone reccomend something that can be done to possibly eliminate this issue. If worse comes to worse i may have to export all my settings to Safari but im so used to Firefox after all these many years of using it.
iPhone 4S, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Comcast DSL
It is your hard drive directory and system and you need to repair and do some maintenance.
Low memory, low disk space, are also reasons to be concerned.
I have no idea what Mac you use and what else is running.
How to maintain a Mac
General purpose Mac troubleshooting guide:
Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107393
What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? (Mac OS X) - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
Creating a temporary user to isolate user-specific problems:
Isolating an issue by using another user account
Identifying resource hogs and other tips:
Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
Starting the computer in "safe mode":
Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
To identify potential hardware problems:
General Mac maintenance:
How to install OS X on a new or faulty HD without Internet recovery
Corrupt and new disks might not have a working Recovery partition, but there are still ways to access one and reinstall OS X, if needed.
I have a MacPro circa 2007.....4 gigs of ram, 250 gig HD, bandwith doesnt seem to be an issue but something somewhere is interfering with the use of Firefox consistently where it doesnt either stall or completely crash.
Uninstall all FF add-ons, uninstall FF and reinstall fresh.
Use Safari to download and also check the status of your browser plugsins (ignore Quicktime)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
Run through this these User Tips
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
A full boot drive or a damaged/failing one may be responsible your problem but only occuring on certain areas of the drive where the heads stuck the platters (like when the machine was moved)
You might want to consider a newer, larger/faster boot drive (7,200 RPM) and max the RAM, plus these Snow Leopard tweaks.
I have Snow Leopard running exceedingly fast on my machine, the webpages just instantly snap on the screen with comcast
Firefox issues
