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Firefox lags /freezes every few seconds, then resumes.

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I have Firefox 5 installed on a new PC and everything worked fine for several weeks. Now suddenly Firefox completely freezes up about every 5 -10 seconds and remains unresponsive for about a second or two before resuming. When playing flash video, the video pauses but the audio continues. Even while typing this message it has already frozen about 6 times. I have tried completely removing Firefox, including the profiles and have tried downgrading to version 4 and even 3. Nothing has fixed it. It also does this in safe mode, even after I've killed off every other non-essential process, so I really don't see that it could be another program interfering. Do you have any suggestions? I love Firefox but it's completely unusable right now!

I have Firefox 5 installed on a new PC and everything worked fine for several weeks. Now suddenly Firefox completely freezes up about every 5 -10 seconds and remains unresponsive for about a second or two before resuming. When playing flash video, the video pauses but the audio continues. Even while typing this message it has already frozen about 6 times. I have tried completely removing Firefox, including the profiles and have tried downgrading to version 4 and even 3. Nothing has fixed it. It also does this in safe mode, even after I've killed off every other non-essential process, so I really don't see that it could be another program interfering. Do you have any suggestions? I love Firefox but it's completely unusable right now!

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Surely someone has a fix for this? This is frustrating!

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i noticed it happened after i installed Xmarks and Lastpass adons, and i also on the same day installed the search bars:

amazon.com - and wish list ebay.com demonoid.com walmart.com Craigslist.com facebook.com netflix.com youtube.com