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6th May 2010, 10:39

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Cursor freezing in Firefox with W7.

I've bought a new laptop on behalf of my daughter. I'm using it to 'shake it down' and find the cursor freezes (frequently) when I use the touchpad left button together with 'slewing' to expand/contract windows when using Firefox (3.6.3). Sometimes the freezing only lasts a few seconds, sometimes it's 'terminal' - though Ctrl Alt Del and Cancel restores the cursor movement, however, repeating the manoeuvre freezes the cursor again.

I have the same model of laptop running under Vista which has never frozen like this, so I am blaming W7. I've not had freezing of the cursor in IE8, though I don't use it much.

Any ideas?

I've searched the interweb, but haven't found exactly the same problem defined, so the solutions aren't relevant IMO.

The laptop is a Medion Akoya MD38340.

MEDION® AKOYA® E6212 (MD 98340)

MEDION AKOYA E6212 (MD 98340) Reviews | 16″ Multimedia Notebook w/ Intel T4500 | laptop |it-echo.Com::Product Review and Tech

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