Same here.

 

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No luck. Firefox 7.0.1 still freezing up all the time now. Gonna have to go back to Chrome.

I'm still playing around with Firefox. And it's taken a while because the issue is so random and infrequent. But I became suspicious that the freeze ups would occur when the browser was Syncing (integrated sync feature).

I uninstalled the browser, removed the old profile (and Mozilla directories). Reinstalled with a fresh profile. And enabled my Sync again. Now interestingly I don't think I'm freezing up anymore, but now I'm getting a sync error message once in a while (kinda random and infrequent like my freeze ups were).

So I did some searching on this. And it turns out there are some sync issues on going.

http://twitter.com/#!/mozservices
"We know there are still Sync nodes having issues. We are working diligently to correct. Sorry for the errors (if you're affected)."

And if you are having Sync issues with Firefox, they setup a website to help them debug the issue.
http://blog.mozilla.com/jv/2011/10/03/help-mozilla-services-operations-debug-whats-wrong-with-sync/

I just sent them my log file.


edit: nice timing, not 10 minutes after posting this, Firefox freezes up again. I jinxed it. I'm also starting to notice I usually have a Flash video playing when these issues happen. Hmm...

i am getting a similar freezing issue ever since upgrading to firefox 7. my problem is not related to sync (i don't use it) or flash (happens when theres no flash on the site). basically it freezes for like 20-30 seconds once every 5 mins or so. i need to find somewhere to download an old version of firefox...never had this problem in the past.

I'm getting the freezing issue as well. They started after I moved a couple months ago. I had been on DSL, and am now on cable. Don't know how that would affect it, but who knows. FF 6 did it and now 7 is doing it. I've noticed the CPU usage on the core that FF is running on jumps up to 70+% while it's frozen.

 

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Yeah, I eventually ruled out Sync and Flash as well. Turned both off and still had problems.

I'm back to Firefox 6.0.2 with automatic update install turned off. Life is good again.

Still puzzled why it's happening or whats causing it. Until now, I thought it was just me.

My biggest problem with firefox in general is that when I shut the program down, it doesn't terminate correctly. When I attempt to open firefox later, nothing happens. I have to go into the Processes tab and end the firefox.exe . Then I can restart it. This issue seems far more prevalent with 7.0.

 

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Got FF 7.0.1 on all of my 6 personal and 1 work computers and its working like a champ. A couple addons are still incompatible, but that will get resolved with time.

Right now, with 4 tabs that I use all the time open, FF uses about 190MB RAM, which is lower than before by about a factor of 2.

 

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