ozgeek Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 (edited) Hi. I have finally upgraded my computer from my 5 year old slow computer to: P4 3 GHZ CPU with HyperThreading Enabled 512 MB DDR RAM MSI 915P Combo Mainboard - this baby has millions of features! Ares 128 MB Radeon X300 Video Card 80 GB WD800 Hard drive SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Pioneer 501A DVD-R/RW burner running Windows XP Professional. I built this baby myself. I am now in the stage of reinstalling my favourite software including Firefox. Firefox was the first program to be installed on this computer after XP Pro. The problem is when I surf the net using Firefox, Firefox would crash with an Application Hang logged to the Windows Event Viewer. Sometimes it would just freeze and after about 5 seconds it's ok. Is Firefox combatable with the CPU's HT technology? what would be wrong? PROBLEM FIXED! SEE LAST POST IN THREAD FOR SOLUTION. Edited July 9, 2005 by mr.roberts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdog Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 if you've installed java make sure it is NOT v5, use 1.4.2 or whatevers latest in thatt branch. Also, it would be good to do a cpu burn in test (google it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 I don't want to do anything that would destroy my system. No overclocking. This system is perfect enough already. I am not sure how I can check the version of Java oh. Did I have to install Sun's Java? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted July 7, 2005 Author Share Posted July 7, 2005 I've just installed Sun's Java 1.4.2 I am testing firefox right now to see if it freezes again. I have been getting those messages in my Event Viewer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted July 9, 2005 Author Share Posted July 9, 2005 Just a note to let any potential Firefox users who might experience this in future. I have solved it by visiting the Mozillazine.org forums. It turns out to be that Firefox is incompatable with the CPU's HyperThreading technology which I have enabled. The solution as quoted from the Mozillazine forums: This workaround is recommended: 1.When Firefox is started,launch the Windows Task Manager (press CTRL+ALT+DEL, or right click the clock display on the Windows Taskbar and select Task Manager) 2.Select the process tab 3.Locate and right-click on the Firefox process 4.Select the set affinity option from the popup menu 5.Uncheck CPU 1 and validate with OK. 6.You can go back to Firefox. It is essential to change this affinity setting before loading Firefox. If that fixes your problems temporarily, Then you need to download "ImageCFG.exe". Quit firefox and copy imagecfg to C:\WINDOWS\system32. Open up a cmd window and type: imagecfg -u 0x1 "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" then imagecfg -a 0x1 "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" this should allow firefox to retain its processor affinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted July 9, 2005 Subscriber¹ Share Posted July 9, 2005 Well, I run firefox on an Intel P4 Prescott (3GHz) with HyperThreading enabled and I've encountered 0 crashing bugs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_demilord Posted July 9, 2005 Share Posted July 9, 2005 Does it happen if you run firefox in safemode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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