Firefox froze and so did my Mac?

the other day I was using Firefox and it froze on me. I can't excalty remember if I had tabs open but I prob had at least one tab. Anyhow it froze on me then my mouse wouldn't move either, in fact I couldn't do anything.

I had to press and hold the on/off button till the iMac rebooted.

What happened here and is this normal?

My friend had this happen to him about two weeks ago too but hasn't had the problem again.

Jen from the sound of things the iMac experienced a system freeze rather than Firefox. Did you try and escape from Firefox using the escape key or Force Quit? If only the application from they should have been available.

Do a Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. Make a cup of coffee it takes about 20 minutes or so.

It happens. Sometimes it helps to know if Firefox was trying to do something specific (say trying to run a Java client, for example), otherwise it's just your run of the mill computer freeze. If force quit doesn't work, you can do what harryb says, but unless it becomes frequent and random, I'd say go about business as normal.

Hi harryb2448

I didn't realise I could use the escape key to close the broswer, if it does happen again I will try that. How do you do a force quit? for future reference.

harryb2448 said:

Jen from the sound of things the iMac experienced a system freeze rather than Firefox. Did you try and escape from Firefox using the escape key or Force Quit? If only the application from they should have been available.

Do a Repair Permissions in Disk Utility. Make a cup of coffee it takes about 20 minutes or so.

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I think I had clicked on a few things, maybe firefox was asked to do too much lol. I wish I knew excatly what I had done. Thanks for your advice too.

EGGO says It happens. Sometimes it helps to know if Firefox was trying to do something specific (say trying to run a Java client, for example), otherwise it's just your run of the mill computer freeze. If force quit doesn't work, you can do what harryb says, but unless it becomes frequent and random, I'd say go about business as normal.

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Some web apps are unstable in non IE browsers. For example I tend to have alot of browser freezes (though not system freezes) whn using logmein in either safari or firefox. I have to go into my VM and run logmein within IE for it to be stable consistently.

Repair disk permissions is not a fix all. If your system has just had this one lockup I would say move on and work as normal. It is not time to go freaking out about anything or running maintenance steps just because a system has had a single isolated and unreproducible lockup.

Jenn

To force quit, click the Apple icon. Force quit is in the menu. I believe it is also available in the contextual menu of an unresponsive application.

As stated, all browsers tend to lock up if they are trying to load something unexpected or conflicting. It happens. Sometimes it's the site, and sometimes it is caused by changes in the sites coding. Same thing with slow downs. Just one of those things.

WolfsBane said:

Jenn

To force quit, click the Apple icon. Force quit is in the menu. I believe it is also available in the contextual menu of an unresponsive application.

As stated, all browsers tend to lock up if they are trying to load something unexpected or conflicting. It happens. Sometimes it's the site, and sometimes it is caused by changes in the sites coding. Same thing with slow downs. Just one of those things.

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She said her mouse couldn't move after a while. When that happens, Command+Option+Escape. If it gets to the point where the mouse doesn't move, it may take a while for Force Quit to come up or it may be too late. Best way to tell is to listen to the hardware if it's trying to do something.

Thanks everyone for the information

I know now how ro force quit two ways which is good to know.

I'm glad I asked here as I did panic a little wondering if my iMac was going into problems, but it doesn't look that way, so I do feel better

Hey Jenn what the heck happened to Tweetie Bird? Sylvester get her or something?

hehe decided I need a change.;D

harryb2448 said:

Hey Jenn what the heck happened to Tweetie Bird? Sylvester get her or something?

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