On 8/27/10 10:24 AM, Ashgrove wrote:
Nope. No hardware problems. And it wasn't crashing, either. It just
become unstable in all my Macs, G4s as well as Intel --unstable
meaning that it reloaded some pages over and over, especially Google-
related pages, like my Gmail account and Google groups. It escalated
from a minor occasional annoyance to a total mess, forcing me to use
other browsers. I went back to Camino, which used my be my favorite
browser before Firefox, but it showed the same behavior. Only Safari
seemed impervious to the Google problem, and that's why I started
using it.
Continual reloading of a page is usually a cookie permission problem.
Google and a few other sites are notorious for doing this if they can't
set the cookies they want. I usually set them for session retention and
they load fine.
I've also had pages load very slowly or just freeze while loading and
never complete. I've found this to be a router problem where the MTU is
set to high, like the max of 1500. I knock it down to about 1380 and the
pages load normally.
I don't have any intel macs so I haven't seen any problems with firefox
that way. Although I have had the same issues on my Windows intel
machines. And the fixes were the same.
Russ
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