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<blockquote data-quote="DEyncourt" data-source="post: 1927122" data-attributes="member: 416097">Like you, I (sometimes) use Firefox and (most of the time) use Safari to download stuff but I have not experienced my browsers being locked up during downloads. That you are having this problem with 2 different browsers suggests that your problem is due to something external to those programs, so:Browser extentions? If you try to use the same extensions on both browsers, then try disabling all of them on each browser to see if this downloading problem goes away, then re-enabling your extensions one at a time to find the problem extension(s). It may be that your problem is due to some recent update to one of your extensions, or that it may be due to a combination of extensions.Drive space on your boot drive? How much free space do you have remaining on it? I recall from somewhere a recommendation that one should keep at least 20% free on one's boot drive because your OS and other programs can use that free space for various purposes. If your boot drive is overly crowded then consider getting an external drive and move files you don't constantly need to that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEyncourt, post: 1927122, member: 416097"] Like you, I (sometimes) use Firefox and (most of the time) use Safari to download stuff but I have not experienced my browsers being locked up during downloads. That you are having this problem with 2 different browsers suggests that your problem is due to something external to those programs, so: Browser extentions? If you try to use the same extensions on both browsers, then try disabling all of them on each browser to see if this downloading problem goes away, then re-enabling your extensions one at a time to find the problem extension(s). It may be that your problem is due to some recent update to one of your extensions, or that it may be due to a combination of extensions. Drive space on your boot drive? How much free space do you have remaining on it? I recall from somewhere a recommendation that one should keep at least 20% free on one's boot drive because your OS and other programs can use that free space for various purposes. If your boot drive is overly crowded then consider getting an external drive and move files you don't constantly need to that. [/QUOTE]

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