Major issues with all Internet browsers!

Hello people of this Forum!

I've had this current computer since December 18th 2011 and ever since that day, I had this issue with all browsers(Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE) that Youtube videos would be a godawful experience(Video/Screen/Player freezing for 10-60 seconds of first starting the video).

In addition to that, almost every webpage causes IE, Safari and Firefox to go "Not responding"(The window gets whited out a bit) and freeze the browser for 5-30 seconds and then resumes loading the page, this mostly happens during the page loading. Chrome on the other hand, does not go unresponsive, but just keeps loading the page for the equal time it takes to get control of the other browsers.

I've tried Updating Flash, removing Flash, tried 32-bit, 64-bit and nothing works.
Also tried Waterfox(64-bit version of Firefox), and still keeps freezing same way as 32-bit.


System specs:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution Motherboard
Intel i5-2500k @ 3.3GHz(Stock clock speeds and stock cooler)
ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II 1.5GB
Kingston 2x4GB ram 1333MHz
64GB SSD(Can't remember manufacturer)
Western Digital 1.0 TB Caviar Black 7200RPM HDD

So far I have not had ANY problems with games(Other than WoW DX11 mode doesn't approve of my conduct, getting driver crashes, but that is issue with the game). I watch Youtube videos every day and lately I've resorted to just watching them on my iPad 2 because my desktop is just awful when using a browser.

Any help to this guys? :(

The fact that you have the issue with all Browsers clearly indicates it is NOT the Browser but something else. Most probably it might be your Firewall, or other Security program, or a combination of two or more of them colliding.

Try closing down all browsers but one PLUS all other security programs. Preferably you could start with having Internet Explorer in use, and everything else shut down. And if it doesn't work, you could uninstall it > reinstall it, and check again. If your system otherwise works fine, you're just having a controversy. You may, of course have a malware problem, but I doubt it.

Thank you for the reply.

I have F-Secure as my Anti-vitus/Firewall program. I have Windows Firewall turned off and my modem has a Firewall aswell.

I cannot test this at the moment as I'm on the road and will be back at home in 6-7 hours. I'd like more opinions as to what could be wrong with my machine if you have opinions.

Hey! I'm back at home now.

I tried turning off F-Secure, as you suggested(Closed through the program "Close and allow all traffic" option). Nothing changed though.
Here's a quick picture of my Task Manager and how it looked after I had turned my Anti-virus software back on: http://i.imgur.com/nuKJJ.png (It's pretty badly cut up, but still shows all processes)

Any ideas now?

I have traced down the problem myself now. The problem seems to be Flash Player. I turned off all addons for Firefox and then it was super fast(The way it should be normally) and started testing 1 addon at a time back on, when I got to Flash player, it went back to the old **** it was.

Is there a way to fix Flash player being so bad? Is there an alternative Player?

what version Flash Player is it ?

It should be the latest one, 11.2.202.235 is the version of the Firefox plugin

Glad you found the problem. Check your Java version too: Download Free Java Software

Pick the "Do I have Java?" in the middle.

Now comes the "hard" part. What is wrong with it and how to fix it? :/

there are some known problems with version 11 and audio so make sure you have the latest drivers for your sound card ?

have you tried a full unninstall then reinstall of flash ?