Mozilla Firefox

[Nick29]

A good firewall often helps 

[Redroger]

Thanks Nick, After a bad morning with Virgin (Area fault) and this site being very busy I am not too happy with the net at present.

[mothball]

For what it's worth I use two browsers.

Chrome for me is good for speedy browsing.

Firefox I use more when on sites like Ancestry.

Like others I don't use IE at all, this is my third computer where it just doesn't happen.

When I use a company to change computers they all use Firefox and Chrome.

You can have as many as you want, I access mine from the task bar at the bottom.  Not all computers are the same so it may not suit all.

Free good security are AVAST and AVG.

[anniedwyer84]

Hi..

Its stopped doing it lol...past few days have been freeze free lol. I use Avast as it updates itself every day and it works quite well for me

[pinefamily]

I also have found Firefox to freeze lately. After some monitoring, I discovered if the computer was left on and idle, it seemd to occur when I went back to it.

[Redroger]

Chrome crashed my system so I removed it! I have found that FF is now increasingly prone to freezing, in fact I had the not respondiong notification twice while replying to this post.

[Nick29]

Try disabling your Firefox plugins (if you have any).

There's a big help page for this problem here 

[Redroger]

Thanks Nick, will give that a shot.

[LizzieW]

Chrome crashed my system so I removed it! I have found that FF is now increasingly prone to freezing, in fact I had the not respondiong notification twice while replying to this post.

I had the same problem with Chrome Roger.  Firefox does seem to freeze lately, but the problem I had today was when transcribing.  I was using a disc for the originals and when I tried to move on a page, I got the "Not responding" message.  I tried Ctrl, Alt, Delete, but nothing.  I closed everything else down, still no joy, in the end I had to remove the disc and start again.