Well I’ve read a lot about vulnerabilities and lock up issues the past several days.  I rebuilt my PC and dropped 2.0 and restored my Firefox data folder to find constant lockups.  I checked around and found what I expected, issues potentially with Add-ons (extensions & themes).

The first thing I did was check for updates on both items.

After updating the few extensions I use and the NOIA 2.0 (Extreme) theme, I re-attempted and had the same lock up issues.  I finally disabled the 2 or 3 extensions and things were working great.  I enabled Google Toolbar and the issue came back.  I uninstalled the toolbar, went to Google and reinstalled it from the site and found the issue still exists.

I use to run FF 2.0 for no more than 5 minutes of heavy browsing (clicking, tabbing around, searching) and it stopped responding.  Without Google Toolbar enabled I’ve been running for about 20 minutes now and hammering it on posting forms, JS pages and whatever else I can think of and I’ve been fine.

So for those of you that are continuing to have issues and running Google Toolbar, disable it and use the default search box (Google).