More on the Firefox hangups

Firefox_logoWe got some good commentary to the Firefox hangup post yesterday and a number of you said that your Firefox hangups were happening on Mac OS X only.  At the time of my original post I was only having the problem on the Vista version of Firefox but last night I received my first hangup on my Mac.  I did some banging around on the Vista version of Firefox that is really giving me fits and uncovered something interesting.  I discovered that when Firefox hangs up and I close the window that the instance of Firefox is still showing in the Task Manager.  I can close Firefox but it’s not really quitting when it’s hung up.  What’s interesting is I can fire Firefox back up after "closing" it and it will run for a while and then hang up again.  I did this all night last night and at one point had three different instances of Firefox showing up in the Task Manager taking anywhere from 70 MB to 100+ MB of memory each.  Something definitely changed in Firefox last week but I haven’t found anybody offering any information about what was changed and why it’s giving us fits.  Maybe Mozilla will do something about it since it’s affecting quite a few of us.

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