Problems With Firefox 2.0 Hanging on my Mac

November 28, 2006 at 4:28 pm · Filed under Mac Software

I’ve been using Firefox 2.0 for a while on my PC and it’s been great. Yesterday I loaded Firefox 2.0 on my MacBook Pro and I’m having issues with it hanging. It doesn’t happen all of the time, but quite often it will freeze and a spinning color wheel appears for a few seconds until it loads the page. Strange.

I’ll do some looking around to see if anyone else is experiencing this hanging when running Firefox 2.0 on a Mac and if I find a solution I’ll be sure to post it.

Update: After doing some searching around, I found that the Google toolbar seems to be causing this issue. After disabling it, Firefox isn’t hanging any more so that appears to be the cause at this point.

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So, Is the Mac OS User Friendly? said,

November 30, 2006 @ 1:19 pm

[...] I haven’t had a single crash or hiccup yet, aside from a problem with Firefox hanging (this had nothing to do with OS X, it’s a bug in Firefox 2.0 that I resolved by disabling the Google toolbar). Getting around in Mac OS X is a piece of cake and although the organizational style is different than Windows, it’s very easy to get familiar with. [...]

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