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Firefox 3.5RC2 stops loading pages after awhile

:: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 @ 12:55:42 pm

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I’ve recently started having a problem with Firefox 3.5RC2 (on Mac OS 10.5.7): it hangs and stops loading pages after awhile. Sometimes, it’s after an hour, and sometimes, it’s after 2 minutes. What’s strange is that I can then launch Safari and access any page, and then Firefox will resume loading pages.

I’ve disabled all my add-ons, and it hasn’t resolved the problem. The next step for debugging will be to trash ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox and start a completely new profile.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5

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  1. posted by Damien on Wed, July 01, 2009 @ 10:50 pm

    I have the same issue with some of Google’s services and in the case of the others they don’t even load, including You Tube.

    However, I’m using the 3.5 final on XP and on CNN’s site it doesn’t fully load and on BBC’s site it doesn’t load all the images.

    But when I downgrade to 3.0.11 it all goes fine.

  2. posted by rizzer on Fri, July 03, 2009 @ 7:23 am

    Same here. I’m not on Mac but Windows Vista :-( Very annoying Some pages will load but a lot wont

  3. posted by Condemned08 on Mon, July 06, 2009 @ 6:18 pm

    I too am having this issue in vista x64 Home premium.

  4. posted by jack on Sun, July 12, 2009 @ 5:03 pm

    I just happened to have this problem occur to me, what are the values of

    network.http.max-connections network.http.max-connections-per-server network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server

    I had mine set way high and just lowered back to a conservative value.

  5. posted by Yotam Elal on Tue, July 21, 2009 @ 7:23 am

    Has anyone found a solution?

  6. posted by darrell s on Mon, July 27, 2009 @ 2:20 pm

    This problem is posted all over the web and not a single answer. Seems like FireFox is going the way of Microsoft by not even acknowledging the problem much less fixing it.

  7. posted by echeng on Mon, July 27, 2009 @ 2:59 pm

    I think it may have had to do with Jack’s suggestion — the number of connections per server, and/or pipelining. Mine has all been reset to default, and it seems to work now.

    Also, I’m on the main 3.5 build…

  8. posted by nick on Wed, November 04, 2009 @ 11:31 am

    Jack’s fix worked for me- I just reset those values to default. FF 3.5.4

  9. posted by Q on Tue, January 12, 2010 @ 3:53 pm

    same problem here, however i have those values jack suggested already at defaults :/

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