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Mozilla crashes 75% of the time when I browse. I jumped through all the "refresh" hoops. Nothing works. Please help.

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When I go to read a news article via AOL everything freezes. The only way out is Alt, Ctrl, delete. After I close all the windows with 'Task manager" I get a dialog box saying Firefox is running but not responding. It makes me cringe but I'm thinking of going to Internet Explorer as a browser because I can't take it anymore with Mozilla freezing like this. PLEASE HELP. Thank you.

When I go to read a news article via AOL everything freezes. The only way out is Alt, Ctrl, delete. After I close all the windows with 'Task manager" I get a dialog box saying Firefox is running but not responding. It makes me cringe but I'm thinking of going to Internet Explorer as a browser because I can't take it anymore with Mozilla freezing like this. PLEASE HELP. Thank you.

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We're sorry to hear that Firefox is crashing. In order to assist you better, please follow the steps below to provide us crash IDs to help us learn more about your crash.

  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A Submitted Crash Reports list will appear, similar to the one shown below.
  2. Copy the 5 most recent Report IDs that start with bp- and then go back to your forum question and paste those IDs into the "Post a Reply" box.

Note: If a recent Report ID does not start with bp- click on it to submit the report.

(Please don't take a screenshot of your crashes, just copy and paste the IDs. The below image is just an example of what your Firefox screen should look like.)

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Thank you for your help!

More information and further troubleshooting steps can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.

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Your System Details show you have three versions of Shockwave Flash which won't be helping. Remove the two older ones or, better, remove all three and start anew.

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You can also check for problems with current Shockwave Flash plugin versions and try this:

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