Firefox hanging on startup today?
Another thing I dislike: when computers make people wait for them.
[If you do not use the Firefox browser, this won't be interesting to you]
The SwitchProxy extension, if you have it installed, does an automatic update check when Firefox starts up.
That’s fine, except it is apparently done on the main startup thread or something, because it blocks Firefox completely until it finishes. That’s pretty bad when, as today, the SwitchProxy website is timing out. Firefox is effectively paralyzed for several minutes after you start it up.
Solution: Tools -> SwitchProxy -> Preferences, uncheck “Notify me of updates.”
Whoops. Jeremy, you’ll want to fix that! :)
February 1st, 2005 at 12:37 am
Hello there, if you check your ref log you will see why i am here lol, this was the issue it was happening today to me (Jan 31/05!) thanks for the info -now fox purrs as it should.
Yes Jimbo you aught to fix that -i just took out extension one by one trying to sort it out. grrrrr..
February 18th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
My Firefox has been seriously hanging on startup the last two days (02/17 and 02/18), and this was the problem. Thanks. Incidentally, to get to the point where you can disable the update notifications on Windows XP: disable your NIC, open Firefox, turn off update notifications in SwitchProxy, and reenable your NIC.
February 22nd, 2005 at 11:37 am
Great info, thanks for that. I just had the same problem.
Mike: There’s another way to switch off the SwitchProxy notification. Just enter “about:config” in the URL edit field, then enter “switch” in the Filter field. Find the “switchproxy.update.notify” setting and set it to “false” (just double-clicking it will do).
February 22nd, 2005 at 10:46 pm
Same thing here. Thanks for the tip.