Computer hangs with Web Videos/Music

FGT · #1 August 6th, 2006, 02:35 AM

Since about 4 months ago, my computer hangs when I access content on the web. Say when I listen to TWIT(mp3 podcast) and I want to just listen to it within Firefox everything seems to freeze for 2-3 minutes after clicking on the download link. Web videos are the same way, sometimes they lose frames and skip and sometimes they cause freezing for 2-3 minutes. I don't havea ny viruses, no spyware and it does it even without the use of my firewall(Kerio).

Athlon XP 1800+
768MB DDR
1.5+Mbs broadband

Any suggestions? I noticed Firefox uses almost 150MB!

jediforce · #2 August 6th, 2006, 06:23 AM

does the same thing happen when you use internet explorer and not firefox? if so, make sure you're using the most recent version of firefox.

FGT · #3 August 6th, 2006, 07:35 AM

Yes, I tried it with Beta 2 IE 7 for about an hour of surfing and it happens.

Firefox is up to date with 1.5.0.6

FGT · #4 August 6th, 2006, 07:43 AM

It just happened again while downloading TWIT 64 and I was actually able to launch the task manager before it got too bad and Kerio jumps to 97-98 CPU during any MP3 or video downloading which seems to cripple my system!

What can I do? I like Kerio because it blocks Ad's and it seems pretty secure for a software firewall.