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Firefox keeps crashing - Any Advice?

As you can see, my firefox browser keeps crashing, hanging up. My OS is Windows Vista Home, and so about 100 times a day, the browser lags, then a window pops up asking me if i want to Close the Program or Let Windows Find a Solution and then Close the Program.

A little more information -- I have scanned for Viruses, Malware, Adware, Spyware. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the bastard to no avail.

HELP.

Update:

Mr. Zip Said... "no program is going to fix it,reload back to factory level,use the option to destory all files/////////run your updates and you should be good to go"

What needs to go to "factory level"? Updates for what? firefox?

This answer made no sense.

Also my first answerer said turn of TALKBACK. Does any one know what talkback is? thanks much

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Give up on Firefox until its fixed there are currently just too many problems to rate it as a reliable piece of software. Try Orca, K-Meleon or Flock they are all free Mozilla based browsers and are all faster than Firefox. They have been produced by people who agree the Mozilla search engine is best but that firefox has gone wrong somewhere. If you go to firefox help pages or Mozillazine help pages you will see that the people there are extremely arrogant and blame everything and everybody for having problems with Firefox. Not a good sign. IE8 is OK with a shell like Avant or Maxthon or slim browser. But a browser that is not part of the OS will always be more secure. the less well known it is the less likely it will be hacked.

  • 1 decade ago

    First of all, right before it crashes, what were u doing? You were multitasking or loading more than 1 page at once. So try load 1 page at a time and when its loading, let it load and be patient.

    If Firefox sucks for you, then get Safari or Google chrome web browser.

    Don't get internet explore because it is the SLOWEST. So try other web browsers and if that doesn't work, its your internet, if it ain't your internet, its your modem,if it ain't your modem its your computer, so get a new computer (the absolute last option)

    Source(s): experience, i always load tons of web pages at once and then it crashes.
  • 1 decade ago

    Try Going to Tools>> add ons>> turn off talkback. or reinstall firefox or update it to the latest version

  • MrZip
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    no program is going to fix it,reload back to factory level,use the option to destory all files/////////run your updates and you should be good to go

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