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The hang, as far as I know, has only happened when Firefox has been active. But it has happened when Firefox was open and Thunderbird was executed - T-bird being a hugely memory-intensive thing, moreso than Firefox.
As a problem solver, my first thought is: what has *changed*? Is there anything I can point to in the last few days that might make a difference?
Hardware: a big yes. In fact, I moved my entire room around last week. At that point, a day later, my sound card failed. Coincidence? Who can say, but a failing speaker system might have led to a shorted output, blowing a channel, so I had to replace the whole thing. These days it is hard to get a mid-priced sound card in stores, so I wound up getting an external: a Creative USB solution.
But the system had been running correctly with this in place for a week, and was rebooted several times during that period.
Software: yes. Two days previously, I had run a "startup cleaner" and turned several things off during startup. This was partly because I was annoyed that Real wanted to remind me to upgrade, those fuckers. Partly because I had been cleaning Jacquelita's system of malware, and I was getting paranoid.
I was able to reboot cleanly and run well after that. But shortly thereafter I started to get errors with a hardware monitoring program that watches my motherboard's temperature, fan, and voltages. It would not run at startup, although when I ran it after startup it seemed to run fine.
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