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Default Strange (and very annoying !!!!!) lockup

On 27/05/2021 22:24, Roger Mills wrote:
On 27/05/2021 20:22, gareth evans wrote:
Any known bugs here? ...

W10 with FireFox

Usually in the evening.

I'll look at both of my gmail accounts, but when
signing out of the second, the laptop freezes with
the disk light on.

There's no keyboard response in FireFox, not even
to Alt-F4, and no mouse cursor.

There's no Internet activity indicated on the
LEDs of the router.

The only recourse is to shut down by an extended
pressing of the power button.

It's only been happening in the last week or so.

TIA



When this happens, can you Alt/TAB to another application? Can you open
Task Manager with Ctrl/Shift/ESC and then shut down FF, or is everything
completely dead?

When you suspect that it's going to freeze, can you open Task Manager,
display processes and sort on the CPU column to see whether something is
hogging the processor?


No, can't launch Task Manager because of unresponsive mouse pad and
keyboard.