Firefox being stupid

[dlf]

'OMG why are you using firefox!' because I find it easier and more customizable . . . Anyway for the past few weeks it seems firefox has started to start being stupid by deciding to stop fully loading some webpages - this site being one of them, click a link (or a bookmark) on the site/to the site and I may be able to see the top banner on the site - if I do but can't see the rest I have to hit f5 a few times (up to about half a dozen). Gamefaqs, pcpartpicker, forbes (tried once), this site seem to the few sites this mostly happens on. I believe being have been having this issue since at lest 5.0 of FF, if not earlier so it's not just me and it's not just the version I'm using.

I have tried gamefaqs/PcPartPicker in chrome and the few times I've tried it doesn't seem to happen. I have also tried creating a new Firefox profile and going to those sites through the address bar and it still happens so it's not an extension, nor cookies/cache. Randomly it seems like for a few hours in the day it may or may not happen - pages fully load the first time I try, then later it starts to happen. If it happens to only a few sites I visit I think I could rule out ISP being an issue. Could it just be traffic (load) to the site?

[GoodBytes]

Firefox works perfectly for me. I have version 20.0

It could be your ISP. It all depends on the web browser works. I know that IE will auto retry and resume when it gets stuck. Perhaps Chrome does the same. Firefox does not.

Here is what I would try:

- Uninstall Firefox, and delete any traces of it, including your profile (or backup your profile. Do it before removing firefox)

- Empty temp directiory

- Install Firefox 20.0, if you backup your profile, DO NOT recover it. Keep it new.

Does this fix your problem?

If not, then to see if yours IPS, change your DNS server to Google's. You can do it by computer, or for your entire network by setting it on your router. It's up to you.

Instruction for Windows: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

For router, refer to your router manual, as every router is different.

[dlf]

Unnstalled FIrefox using Revo - or thought I had, deleted my profile (using the -profileManager) in the command line. And it's still happening. I am using v 20. Guess I could try 15, 16, 17, 18 or 19. Scratch that, I tried nightly @ v14, that did nothing different. Updated to v23 and it's still happening. What the hell could I have changed in the last several weeks that would make this happen? Even switching DNS changed nothing.

I think I have the culprit - Microsoft security essentials, have turned off 'real time protection' and it seems to not happen for the moment.

[GoodBytes]

Wow! that's interesting. I don't have the issue on my side, and I have Security Essential... well to be exact, I have Windows 8, so it's build in.

I wonder if a Security Essential definitions update was missed installed, or was corrupted during update and it makes Security Essential blocks incoming content of Firefox in some fashion. Maybe there is a malware or virus that places inside the cache of Firefox, and the deinifiton update is corrupted and marks everything from the cache to be bad, and blocks Firefox from working correctly.

[darksoulinside]

<< no any problems from firefox user here (only problem with FF at this moment its when try load 10+ pages at the same time sometimes it crash(not fully), but its only for someone like me... :D)

[dlf]

Yet why was 'real time protection' by MSE only effecting a few sites? Gamefaqs, pcpartpicker.com, this site . . . .

[GoodBytes]

Yet why was 'real time protection' by MSE only effecting a few sites? Gamefaqs' date=' pcpartpicker.com, this site . . . .[/quote']

That's the thing.. I really don't know... I am guessing.

What I would try, is as follows:

-> Uninstall Microsoft Security Essential, and delete all traces from it, including in C:\Users\\AppData (hidden folder), (Look under "Microsoft", and "Windows" folders)

-> Restart your system

-> Install it back, and see if it now works fine.

If not, then add in the folder exclusion in MSE the location of where Firefox is installed, and:

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Extensions

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox

and

C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

[dlf]

I guess the exclusion did it, really weird. Doubtful, but could my antivirus - NOD32 (albeit the 64 bit edition) or Windows 7 64 bit HP be causing the issue without 'excluding' firefox?