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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