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Disappearing Firefox

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Why does Firefox go into seclusion every now and again?

Overload on my machine? Only got 256 RAM

It's there in the background but won't respond to a click on the icon but will respond to a prompt from a mailed address

Baffled. Checked it with 'whats running' and changed priority to high but to no avail

Help :cuss:
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Post by buksida »

Firstly make sure you have the latest version (3.0.4), earlier versions of Firefox suffered memory leakage problems. Click 'help' then 'about Firefox'.

Secondly press ctrl+alt+del then 'task manager' then 'processes' to see what is using all of your memory and end the process.

Thirdly please post all minor computer problems in the appropriate thread:
http://www.huahinafterdark.com/forum/th ... t3099.html
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Apart from the solutionabove, please check if you've install the Addon called FasterFox. It does make surfing faster and consume a lot of RAM.
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Post by richard »

Ta

Addons checked and now running normally after deleting a few
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