MASSIVE browser crash and unresponsiveness


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Last week everything was fine.

This week, all my browsers crash (on sites, not the browser itself), or are idle for long, and go unresponsive. Couple of examples:

www.facebook.com

1. In all my chrome based browsers it goes "Awww snap, can't open"

2. In firefox based browsers it goes idle and opens after 2min, and every action made in the site take 2min for firefox to react and do it, in this time the browser is completely dead. (yet not unresponsive according to win task man)

3. Opera based browsers, the client goes unresponsive and never ever returns. (force end process)

Some pages are fine, for example neowin.net did open only in chrome without errors, the rest reacted like above described for facebook.

To me, this seems like some sort of plugin error. I'm using most of then as default, meaning no extensions, etc installed. Also I have 1 of each installed + other browser as portable editions on my pc.

Need suggestion where I have to look for the answer to this issue. Also, for example everytime I open gmail, I get the message "of some script is unresponsive, do you want to stop it" yet it doesn't tell me what script. This is in every browser.

***another example is, tumblr.com...in chrome based browser, i can open my dashboard click on the pages, but if i want to open my page, it does immediately awww snap. After 10mins of idle firefox, it dropped me a script error message, don't know from which site, but it says: https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js:6 but can't click anything because firefox is yet again unresponsive.

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  • Delete your Browser cache.
  • Delete your temporary Java files.
  • Disable all your extensions and plug-ins where possible.
  • Slowly re-enable the extensions one at a time and see if the problem happens again.

Those are off the top of my head, at least as a way of trying to narrow down what could be causing the problem. Have you added any plug-ins/extensions recently?

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The first few things I would be looking for is:


  • 1. Virus/Malware scan your system and see what happens.
    2. Clear the browsers cache and cookies.
    3. Would not hurt to run chkdsk on the HDD
    4. Also may not be a bad idea to run memcheck, just to rule out bad RAM.

Do you have anything else running that might be using bandwidth ie Torrents, or backup programs like Dropbox? Those can easily bring a system to a crawl especially if you are downloading Torrents and do not have the client configured properly.

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  • Delete your Browser cache.
  • Delete your temporary Java files.
  • Disable all your extensions and plug-ins where possible.
  • Slowly re-enable the extensions one at a time and see if the problem happens again.

Those are off the top of my head, at least as a way of trying to narrow down what could be causing the problem. Have you added any plug-ins/extensions recently?

The first few things I would be looking for is:

1. Virus/Malware scan your system and see what happens.

2. Clear the browsers cache and cookies.

3. Would not hurt to run chkdsk on the HDD

4. Also may not be a bad idea to run memcheck, just to rule out bad RAM.

Do you have anything else running that might be using bandwidth ie Torrents, or backup programs like Dropbox? Those can easily bring a system to a crawl especially if you are downloading Torrents and do not have the client configured properly.

I installed fresh portable editions, which have like emptry caches and cookies. It happends to them also. Torrent not running. Only dropbox and mumble in background but inactive traffic. No exetension what so ever.

Then it leaves no other possibilities:

- delete temp java files....where i can find them?

- check ram

- do a chkdsk on HDD.

Can some1 recommend me a good malwave scanner and remover?

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- delete temp java files....where i can find them?

Under the control panel you'll find a Java preferences option. The option to delete temporary Java files can be found there. If you could provide an operating system I could probably be more specific.

Can some1 recommend me a good malwave scanner and remover?

Malwarebytes, Spybot, MSE...they're all fairly decent tools in my book.

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Everything DONE. No viruses found, No malwave or Trojan either.

Pages still crash in every possible browser. Any suggestions?! Could it be really the cause a fragmented disk or ram error?

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My first guess would be some sort of Internet issue, though I wouldn't think an internet issue would stall every browser on your machine. But for kicks you could power cycle your internet modem / router and maybe try alternate dns servers like open dns 208.67.222.222 / 208.67.220.220.

Might also want to try a netsh winsock reset at the command prompt.

As far as checking your hard drive, i'd would definably test your hard drive with something like spinrite rather than chkdsk. Something like Spinrite will also show you the number of ECC and Seek errors and the threshold of those numbers via S.M.A.R.T as it scans.

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I would also recommend you scan your system with tdsskiller looking for rootkits / mbr rookit. You may also want to do a scan just to be sure with some sort of bootable rescue disc, like Kaspersky. to find stuff that might hide from scanners inside of windows.

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Wow, thanks for the ton of advice, will surely try to do them.

And just to answer quickly back. It's definitely somesort of script that triggers this, because for example on my tumblr dashboard something got posted and as I scroll down where it is, site crashed imediate. Also I'm using reader, everything is fine and soon as i open a page (that triggers ofcourse) the side goes immediately "awww". So it's definitely something that triggers the crash. I excluded flash, because youtube works. Facebook consist of ton of javascript and html5, i believe, so must one of those things.

All browsers actually react the same way, with the only difference chrome is usable and does not go idle because of it, firefox does but in the end it also wont show the site that triggered the crash.

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lets see, a couple things i can think of that aren't listed here

try flushing your dns cache (ipconfig /flushdns)

check your hosts file (located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc open with notepad that has been run as admin)

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1: Do you have another pc to test with?

2: try it in a vm and see what happens.

3:use partedmagic and test your hdd and ram with it.while in partedmagic, try to browse the net with i think it's firefox.

4:Try a Linux livecd(Ubuntu) and see if it happens.

I think it's a hardware issue. are the temps fine?

TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Vista or 7.

Start - All Programs - Accessories and right click on Command Prompt, select "Run as Administrator" to open a command prompt.

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset IPv4 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log

Reset IPv6 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv6 reset reset.log

Reboot the machine.

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Strange things happen.

Yesterday after bumping all the time into error/site crashed I got my self safari installed. Safari was working 100% so I used it. At this very moment I switched back to chrome and it works. In between I didn't do anything, the whole night PC was shutdown or idle. :D

If some can explain how this is possible?!

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Strange things happen.

Yesterday after bumping all the time into error/site crashed I got my self safari installed. Safari was working 100% so I used it. At this very moment I switched back to chrome and it works. In between I didn't do anything, the whole night PC was shutdown or idle. :D

If some can explain how this is possible?!

maybe you tried all the solutions out there, but since you had Chrome/Firefox/etc. open (& you hadn't restarted) the solutions like hadn't applied yet to them - but since Safari was a new install it just used the settings that were put out after you did the solutions. Then after you shutdown & restarted over the night, the settings were propagated to your other installations. like,

Open Chrome/Firefox/Opera -> Make Changes specified above -> changes are like the ones that get applied "after you restart your browser" or something, but it doesn't tell you that -> install Safari -> since Safari hasn't been opened before, you don't need to restart it for the changes to be affected -> you restart your computer by turning it off during the night and turning it on this morning -> Chrome/Firefox/Opera are restarted, and changes applied. -> Mission accomplished.

that's the best explanation I can come up with outside of alien contact (:

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