Is Firefox causing my machine to freeze?

[wolfhound]

I have an IBM T22 laptop running XP pro. It appears to be a rather stable machine. The only problem is when I run Firefox. It runs smooth for about five minutes and then it locks up the machine. I have attempted to uninstall it and then install it again without success.

I don't know if this has been seen before but if it has not I would be more than willing to collect some more data in order to resolve this issue.

Thanks.

[arrowdownhill]

it locks up the machine completely? or can you access Task Manager?

[quartet-man]

I have had that problem with Firefox in the past few days. It seems to happen more with media (YouTube) or midi files on certain sites. At least I think it might be Firefox. The machine doing that is a Win98SE machine. It might be coincidental or not. Sometimes it works, but others seem to go wacky. Sometimes I can get the task manager, other times it totally freezes and I have to unplug (control alt delete won't work.)

[shadowpr]

Does it lock up on the same sites, or different sites?

What if you use ie, does it still lock up? If not, then try waiting a few days to see if FF comes with an update.

[wolfhound]

Thanks for the replies. Here are the answers to your questions.
[LIST=1][*]The web site visited does not matter[*]The system appears more stable with IE but does still lock-up[*]I have been trying my best to keep FF updated

1. Total lock-up. No task manager, no keyboard or mouse

[Statica]

Have you tried firefox in safemode? and then disable all add-ons? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode