Why firefox behaves so weirdly/annoying?











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Occasionally FF starts very heavy activities, performing huge amounts of I/O (On my HDD) and considerable CPU usage for a long time (More than 10 minutes is really normal for it) that there is no apparent reason for it and can't be stopped easily. In the meanwhile my PC gets very slow and Firefox itself almost hangs. Very frustrating!



It continues even after closing Firefox for quite a while.



FF really behaves like a heavy antivirus program while performing a full HDD scan!!



I am using FFv60 on Windows7, but have experienced the same problem on other PCs with different FF versions and OSes.






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  • I wonder if you have a hard disk and your FF is swapping?
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    What sites are you visiting when this happens? Does it only happen when you visit specific site or it is every site?
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Occasionally FF starts very heavy activities, performing huge amounts of I/O (On my HDD) and considerable CPU usage for a long time (More than 10 minutes is really normal for it) that there is no apparent reason for it and can't be stopped easily. In the meanwhile my PC gets very slow and Firefox itself almost hangs. Very frustrating!



It continues even after closing Firefox for quite a while.



FF really behaves like a heavy antivirus program while performing a full HDD scan!!



I am using FFv60 on Windows7, but have experienced the same problem on other PCs with different FF versions and OSes.






firefox freeze cpu-usage io







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  • I wonder if you have a hard disk and your FF is swapping?
    – davidgo
    yesterday










  • How much RAM does your computer have?
    – Mokubai♦
    yesterday










  • @Mokubai I have 4 GB of RAM
    – user40602
    yesterday










  • @user40602 Does the issue persist in safe mode in a new profile?
    – dsstorefile1
    yesterday






  • 1




    What sites are you visiting when this happens? Does it only happen when you visit specific site or it is every site?
    – Mokubai♦
    yesterday













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Occasionally FF starts very heavy activities, performing huge amounts of I/O (On my HDD) and considerable CPU usage for a long time (More than 10 minutes is really normal for it) that there is no apparent reason for it and can't be stopped easily. In the meanwhile my PC gets very slow and Firefox itself almost hangs. Very frustrating!



It continues even after closing Firefox for quite a while.



FF really behaves like a heavy antivirus program while performing a full HDD scan!!



I am using FFv60 on Windows7, but have experienced the same problem on other PCs with different FF versions and OSes.






firefox freeze cpu-usage io







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Occasionally FF starts very heavy activities, performing huge amounts of I/O (On my HDD) and considerable CPU usage for a long time (More than 10 minutes is really normal for it) that there is no apparent reason for it and can't be stopped easily. In the meanwhile my PC gets very slow and Firefox itself almost hangs. Very frustrating!



It continues even after closing Firefox for quite a while.



FF really behaves like a heavy antivirus program while performing a full HDD scan!!



I am using FFv60 on Windows7, but have experienced the same problem on other PCs with different FF versions and OSes.






firefox freeze cpu-usage io




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  • I wonder if you have a hard disk and your FF is swapping?
    – davidgo
    yesterday










  • How much RAM does your computer have?
    – Mokubai♦
    yesterday










  • @Mokubai I have 4 GB of RAM
    – user40602
    yesterday










  • @user40602 Does the issue persist in safe mode in a new profile?
    – dsstorefile1
    yesterday






  • 1




    What sites are you visiting when this happens? Does it only happen when you visit specific site or it is every site?
    – Mokubai♦
    yesterday


















  • I wonder if you have a hard disk and your FF is swapping?
    – davidgo
    yesterday










  • How much RAM does your computer have?
    – Mokubai♦
    yesterday










  • @Mokubai I have 4 GB of RAM
    – user40602
    yesterday










  • @user40602 Does the issue persist in safe mode in a new profile?
    – dsstorefile1
    yesterday






  • 1




    What sites are you visiting when this happens? Does it only happen when you visit specific site or it is every site?
    – Mokubai♦
    yesterday
















I wonder if you have a hard disk and your FF is swapping?
– davidgo
yesterday




I wonder if you have a hard disk and your FF is swapping?
– davidgo
yesterday












How much RAM does your computer have?
– Mokubai♦
yesterday




How much RAM does your computer have?
– Mokubai♦
yesterday












@Mokubai I have 4 GB of RAM
– user40602
yesterday




@Mokubai I have 4 GB of RAM
– user40602
yesterday












@user40602 Does the issue persist in safe mode in a new profile?
– dsstorefile1
yesterday




@user40602 Does the issue persist in safe mode in a new profile?
– dsstorefile1
yesterday




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What sites are you visiting when this happens? Does it only happen when you visit specific site or it is every site?
– Mokubai♦
yesterday




What sites are you visiting when this happens? Does it only happen when you visit specific site or it is every site?
– Mokubai♦
yesterday















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