Like a dick I forgot myself and one day switched automatic updating back on. So my Firefox, which was the slim and sassy v9.01 went and updated itself to v12.
Thats when the troubles started. The program began eating up CPU runtime, to where it was taking up over 80% of the CPU capacity.
Then Adobe Flash started to run badly. So I went to the Adobe site and they reccd an update from Flash 10 to Flash 11. More problems.... now Flash stuttered, hung, or just plain old crashed two or three times per video I was trying to watch.
FireFox now ran like an arthritic slug on mogadon, hung regularly, and just chewed up the CPU runtime. That and now sometimes watching a flash vid on YouTube would start the hard disk spinning like crazy till I shut the plugin controller down, and sometimes even had to shut down FireFox as well to stop the spinning.
So...I toddled over to the Mozilla forum and posted some queries, and had a read of several threads by other users who were having the same issues with FF and Flash...and Avast. Seems that many a user were having the exact same issues.....and the common link was we all seemed to be using PCs or laptops that were a good few years old (6 in my case).
So...Admin reccd an update to FF v15. Guess what - no sodding difference at all, if anything slightly worse.
SO... finally I got so pissed off with the whole shebang I dropped from CNET an old version of my beloved FF v9.01, then spent three hours stripping Flash and FireFox, and all the crap each leave behind when you do a normal uninstall, off my system, including exporting all the hyperlinks and passwords so as not to loose them
Re-install FireFox v9, reinstall Flash v11. Switch off router, open FF and make sure the sodding autoupdater is disabled. Tidy up the leftovers of the installation files.
Result?
Works a treat again. No hangs, no crashes, no nonsense with the hard disk spinning out every 10 minutes.
So there you go. If you, like me, were conned by the technogeek swine at Mozilla, take heart. Just strip all their new stuff off, clean your system thoroughly, and go back to the version that worked....and make sure that autoupdates are disabled and stay that way.
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