ScottALot
Active Member
Hey all.
Been having some oddities with Firefox lately. It seems that I'm getting frequent crashes, but they're not your average crash. When I get a crash normally, the window goes gray, Windows says it's Not Responding, tries to fix the issue, Epic Fails, and I usually just hit cancel to close the program before Windows goes off on a tangent.
However, these crashes are weird. Firefox just STOPS. You can't hit the X to close out, you can't click tabs, it's as pointless as clicking on your wallpaper. The only way to close it/get rid of it is via Task Manager's End Process feature. Surprisingly, it consistently is able to restore the tabs I had open without much of a hitch.
What I've done: I've tried using the next Beta as I thought the current Firefox might have some issue with my computer, and I wasn't wanting to wait for a patch. Same problem... exactly.
What I've noticed: When I'm using Firefox, it tends to use the most system memory of any program open... that's just how Firefox is. However, with these recent crashes, I'm seeing that FlashPlayerPlugin is using over 500,000KB of system memory compared to Firefox's 315,000KB. Not only that, but there are TEN instances of FlashPlayerPlugin and the others use from 10KB to 100KB of Memory.
The exact instance name is FlashPlayerPlugin_11_3_300_265.exe *32 for all ten of them.
Another issue is that Chrome is generally poorly performing for me. I've heard rave reviews on the browser, but I seem to have to refresh pages a lot to get them to actually load as I frequently get a gray spiral telling me that nothing is actually happening.
Been having some oddities with Firefox lately. It seems that I'm getting frequent crashes, but they're not your average crash. When I get a crash normally, the window goes gray, Windows says it's Not Responding, tries to fix the issue, Epic Fails, and I usually just hit cancel to close the program before Windows goes off on a tangent.
However, these crashes are weird. Firefox just STOPS. You can't hit the X to close out, you can't click tabs, it's as pointless as clicking on your wallpaper. The only way to close it/get rid of it is via Task Manager's End Process feature. Surprisingly, it consistently is able to restore the tabs I had open without much of a hitch.
What I've done: I've tried using the next Beta as I thought the current Firefox might have some issue with my computer, and I wasn't wanting to wait for a patch. Same problem... exactly.
What I've noticed: When I'm using Firefox, it tends to use the most system memory of any program open... that's just how Firefox is. However, with these recent crashes, I'm seeing that FlashPlayerPlugin is using over 500,000KB of system memory compared to Firefox's 315,000KB. Not only that, but there are TEN instances of FlashPlayerPlugin and the others use from 10KB to 100KB of Memory.
The exact instance name is FlashPlayerPlugin_11_3_300_265.exe *32 for all ten of them.
Another issue is that Chrome is generally poorly performing for me. I've heard rave reviews on the browser, but I seem to have to refresh pages a lot to get them to actually load as I frequently get a gray spiral telling me that nothing is actually happening.
