I've got BOINC Manager 5.4.11 running on three Windows XP systems. I only have this problem on my laptop. After booting, I'll open the BOINC manager. It will correctly display the status of running tasks. Then, after a short time (less than a minute?) the tasks will vanish and the window opens saying "BOINC Manager - Connection Error" "The password you have provided is incorrect, please try again."

(Note that I don't have to have the manager open for this problem to occur.)

I close that window, select Advanced | Select Computer and click OK and the client again displays the tasks. I don't now why it's doing this.

But it's the final issue that bugs me. Sometimes after this sequence of events occurs, I'll notice my laptop slows to a crawl, as though something is eating up the CPU. I'll check. It's Firefox! I'll close all my browser windows but there's still a Firefox process and it's still eating up the CPU cycles. If I end the Firefox process using the Windows Task Manager, everything returns to normal.

Any idea what's going on here?

I'm running the latest version of Firefox (2.0) but this happened in previous versions too. I have the latest Windows XP fixes from Microsoft. I'm running BOINC Manager 5.4.11. I have McAfee software too.

Help!
Bill

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided

Copy url, put in browser. That brings you to Bugzilla, the bug database for all Mozilla products.

Done.

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The Firefox issue ONLY seems to happen in association with the BOINC issue. I've left my laptop up for days at a time and have not experienced any problems with Firefox. That's why I think it's strictly an issue that is caused by some start-up sequence of BOINC.

The only Firefox add-on/extensions I have are the defaults, DOM Inspector and Talkback, plus McAfee's SiteAdvisor.

Wonder if, because it takes a little while for my wireless G network to be established, if this is making BOINC upset? My other computers are hardwired Ethernet.

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