Techsurvivors
Welcome to Techsurvivors => Tech => Topic started by: ADSR on December 23, 2019, 05:37:19 AM
-
Hi,
Firefox (48.02) MacBook Pro 15" Core 2 Duo 2,53 GHz ,snow leopard 10.6.8
Using this set up from a long time whithout problem ...now after using it for sometimes , mail etc ,get a spinning wheel and obliged to restart.
Is there a solution ?
Thanks
GR
-
Do you have Disk Warrior, TechToolPro or Drive Genius? DW is my first choice. Disk Utility is weak in comparison. Also, you could run some maintenance with the Snow Leopard version of OnyX (https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html) Another thing to check is how much free space you have on the hard drive.
-
I used disk warrior whithout success and i have a lot of free space on the drive...
I'm gonna try Onyx
Thanks for your help
GR
-
In addition, run SMART. Disk Warrior can do that for you without your having to boot from the DW DVD (and Disk Utility may be able to do it, but I don't remember if that's possible in Snow Leopard). If SMART indicates that the drive is failing, believe it. If SMART gives you a clean bill of health, that's good but not necessarily definitive. In any event, it is prudent to have a complete backup, just in case.
-
Smart was ok...ran Onyx but the spinning wheel came again after half an hour, i suspect Firefox cause just wrote some mail and browse the web ...
What do you think?
-
I'm out of ideas. Maybe someone else can suggest another tack.
-
I thought of something else. When the spinning beachball appears, see if you can launch Activity Monitor. You might be able to see if a particular process is hogging CPU.
-
When you see the spinning cursor, it is often because an application is "not responding" to something.
First, move the cursor over any other app you happen to have open, even Finder. You may see that the cursor even stops spinning, if so, great!
You can usually find out what the application is by using the "Force Quit..." menu (under the Apple icon at the extreme left-hand end of the Menu bar. But you usually need to get the spinning cursor to stop first, that's the pointy of the previous paragraph. Once the spinning stops, you can use the "Force Quit..." menu to open a small window and it should eventually show the name of an app with some red text beside it saying "." [ but in French? :) ]
Click on the app's name and then click the "Force Quit" button. You will then be asked to confirm you choice.
If this works successfully, you'll now know what app NOT to use until you can figure out why it is crashing (often because of a corrupted Preference file).
-
I'll try to look for that.. :thanx:
-
Here's a window i got often , it's about a script ...don't really know what's all about ?
Saying ,stop,debug or continue
Script:https//secure-ds.serving-sys....ejs:createjs-2015.11.26.mn.JS:14
Maybe that's part of the problem :Thinking:
-
Found some info which suggests those script notices may relate to forms of malware that can hijack your browsers and potentially slow down or stop their function. Some can come with add-ons to the browser.
Here are links that may help you find your specific problem (some relate to Windows or a specific program but may still give you some ideas on what to track down).
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-get-rid-of-ds-serving-sys-com-which-hijacks-my-browsers (https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-get-rid-of-ds-serving-sys-com-which-hijacks-my-browsers)
https://rescueyourcomputer.blogspot.com/2015/08/delete-dsserving-syscom-pop-up-from-web.html (https://rescueyourcomputer.blogspot.com/2015/08/delete-dsserving-syscom-pop-up-from-web.html)
https://community.webroot.com/webroot-secureanywhere-antivirus-12/how-to-remove-centurylink-net-236606 (https://community.webroot.com/webroot-secureanywhere-antivirus-12/how-to-remove-centurylink-net-236606)
-
Thanks Krissel
But can't find how to proceed whith Firefox and OSX :unsure: