John,

I rebuilt the directory as you suggested. I also turned off a couple of the
extensions in Firefox and everything is running really well now. I think
that may have done the trick. Will see how it does over the next few days.

Nora

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 4:31 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:

> Nora,
>
> Been watching the thread on this but was out and couldn't respond.   Yes
> you may have a problem with Firefox, you may have a hardware problem
> developing but your symptoms I experience quite often on the one machine
> that is the work horse.
>
> To cure the problem it is like Lee says, it's not repair permissions it is
> *rebuilding the DIRECTORY*.  You need to BOOT from your DiskWarrior disk
> and then do a rebuilding of the directory and you will be simply amazed
> (unless one of the other problems is the culprit) but you have to boot from
> the disk.  This can take a good while but it will get there.
>
> *IF you have an external drive attached unmount and turn it off before you
> try to boot from the DiskWarrior DVD*.  If not mine will never boot for it
> sees other systems out there and I guess gets confused.  Once it has booted
> to the disk *then* you can turn the external drives on and rebuild the
> directories on each of the drives after you have completed your Mac.
>
> It's like a new machine, whisk fast and none of the many problems I had
> been experiencing.  I also only use Safari, I figure Apple will try to keep
> it close to being updated as changes in the operating system are updated.
>
> John
>
>
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