Browsers freeze, internet connection lost

[Dr Transport]

Here's a new one, but in the past couple of weeks I have to reboot my windows to get the internet connection started up again. It happens with all my browsers installed, Edge (which I do not normally use), Firefox (my default) and Chrome (backup).

Someplace a setting is hanging up or a driver is shutting down.

By the way the machine is a 5-6 year old HP pavilion and all the drivers are up to date.

 

[jedishrfu]

Could it be heat related? Do you hear the fan running pretty soon after you've turned it on?

Perhaps you could use compressed air to blow out the innards and/or reset the cards and cables to remove the possibility of static discharge.

 

[Dr Transport]

I'll try it, we have been having the house torn apart and there is a butt load of dust and I haven't cleaned it out in a while...

 

[Psinter]

It could be many things. My answer is probably trite, but here it goes. I noticed once that when I opened the browsers, the OS began intensive read/write operations on the hard disk while opening it. That makes the browser freeze and appear as Not Responding for a good while amount of time. I'm talking as much as 1 minute here. The whole operating system became slow too.

I didn't really know what was going on, but a reinstall of the browser fixed it for me (removing also all browser data in AppData). The only problem is that if you had add-ons or extensions you have to install them again. Check if you notice intensive read/write operations on the hard disk while opening it.

Note: My hard disk health was good. Not a single sector was damaged or so said the health report.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Windows 10? Maybe there is a memory leak somewhere? Scan for malware.

 

[Dr Transport]

Windows 10? Maybe there is a memory leak somewhere? Scan for malware.

did, matter a fact, had mcaffee do it twice from their end. No malware, although on occasion when I reset/reboot, a read exception pops up. Next thought is a hard drive if it isn't dust.

Tried to blow the dust and grime out, it was bad, let's see if that helps.

 

[Dr Transport]

It could be many things. My answer is probably trite, but here it goes. I noticed once that when I opened the browsers, the OS began intensive read/write operations on the hard disk while opening it. That makes the browser freeze and appear as Not Responding for a good while amount of time. I'm talking as much as 1 minute here. The whole operating system became slow too.

I didn't really know what was going on, but a reinstall of the browser fixed it for me (removing also all browser data in AppData). The only problem is that if you had add-ons or extensions you have to install them again. Check if you notice intensive read/write operations on the hard disk while opening it.

Note: My hard disk health was good. Not a single sector was damaged or so said the health report.

Drive doesn't seem to labor when I open browsers, it might be slow, but they open fine.

One thing I may have not mentioned, this happens randomly when I have been on for a while, but it seems to be random, no specific time involved.

 

[Psinter]

Drive doesn't seem to labor when I open browsers, it might be slow, but they open fine.

Hmmmm. I wouldn't know then. Probably this you could try:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10741/windows-10-fix-network-connection-issues

Like, access that page with a tablet or phone for when the next time it happens. If it is neither of them, I would check the DNS. But in a couple of those many troubleshooting listed there, the DNS should get fixed automatically.

 

[Dr Transport]

Update:

I did a couple of the things suggested above, I did adjust the setting for both Firefox and Chrome and the biggest thing I did was to open up the case and blow out all of the dust/grime and reset all the cables.

So far so good, none of the browsers have locked up and the computer has not lost connectivity with the interwebs...

Thanks to all,