Firefox freezing up; will not shut down.

[Scooby074]

As above try disabling all addons/extensions and see what happens.

Also Flash has been causing me a lot of grief, crashes on Youtube, hangs etc for about the last 6 mths. Not much I can do but grin and bare it. Im up to date and it still does it, just a little less. Thankfully Youtube is moving away from flash to HTML5. Cant happen soon enough.

 

[Looking4new]

I have many copies of FF, dating from 2010 to the current version. When ever FF gives me a hard time after a reboot I will load up an older version and use it for a bit and then update it and all will be good again.
I have a file I keep all my updates in and that is where I keep extras of Firefox.

 

[dirt ditch]

I have not had any problems with Firefox. I'm using Windows 8.1 and the latest version for it is 36.0.4. Check what version you have by clicking on Help/About Firefox in the top left corner. It should also check for updates for you. Don't know if this would have anything to do with it, but check and see if you need to install a new version of Adobe Flash Player. My security app just installed the new one a couple days ago.

 

[tallyho8]

I have had the same problems with Firefox starting this week. Every now and then it freezes up and I have to reboot the computer then it works again. When it is frozen up my Chrome and Internet Explorer work fine so it is a Firefox problem. I uninstalled my Firefox and downloaded and installed a new one and it did the same thing especially if I leave the computer for an hour or so and come back and it will be frozen.

So far today it has been working fine.

 

[KubotainNH]

Oh man, I totally forgot about Flash. I use Flashblock now because it's such a piece of crap, seems to hate FF. I watch Youtube in IE.

 

[Lord of the Tractor]

This recently happened to me when I opened cerain pages on Firefox:tractor: I knew it was FF because the same pages worked fine on IE:tractor: The whole computer froze, couldn't even CTRL+ALT+DELETE, so I had to keep hard resetting:tractor: It was because of a Windows update:tractor: I fixed the problem by going into my recent updates, and removing the recent 'Update for Windows 7 for x64 based systems' which were categorised as recommended rather than important:tractor: Now it's all good again :tractor:

 

[Lord of the Tractor]

Also, why are you asking for computer advice on a forum about tractors?:tractor:

 

[deerseeker001]

We discuss many topics on this forum.

Also, why are you asking for computer advice on a forum about tractors?:tractor:

 

[Looking4new]

Also, why are you asking for computer advice on a forum about tractors?:tractor:

I think it might be because some of us use computers to access these forums?

 

[check]

And because tractor people are cooler than other people!