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Firefox hangs after loading certain sites

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Since today i've had a weir problem with firefox. When i load youtube (i've also noticed on the site www.geenstijl.nl) my firefox hangs almost instantly. It keeps playing the music for as far as it has loaded, but time/image etc gets stuck. I can stil move my mouse as normal, and it's still the normal cursor shape as well. I cant open a new tab, or close firefox the normal way.

The only way to close it, is by going through the task messenger. It instantly responds when i press "end task" while in my experiance most hangs don't respond to that either - and forcing you to end process instead (if you want out instantly). I've just noticed as well, that if i "end task" with multiple tabs open, i get the warning about tabs closing - causing my firefox to respond again. However, if i cancel the shutting down - and come back on the youtube page - it stops responding inmediatly.

I've done a complete re-install of firefox and flash player and still have this problem. Other sites using flashplayer (streams, dumpert.nl) are working fine.

Firefox doesn't seem to recognise that it's hanging/crashing - i've not recieved any error reports. Anyone who can help me fix this?

Thanks in advance, Naatz

Since today i've had a weir problem with firefox. When i load youtube (i've also noticed on the site www.geenstijl.nl) my firefox hangs almost instantly. It keeps playing the music for as far as it has loaded, but time/image etc gets stuck. I can stil move my mouse as normal, and it's still the normal cursor shape as well. I cant open a new tab, or close firefox the normal way. The only way to close it, is by going through the task messenger. It instantly responds when i press "end task" while in my experiance most hangs don't respond to that either - and forcing you to end process instead (if you want out instantly). I've just noticed as well, that if i "end task" with multiple tabs open, i get the warning about tabs closing - causing my firefox to respond again. However, if i cancel the shutting down - and come back on the youtube page - it stops responding inmediatly. I've done a complete re-install of firefox and flash player and still have this problem. Other sites using flashplayer (streams, dumpert.nl) are working fine. Firefox doesn't seem to recognise that it's hanging/crashing - i've not recieved any error reports. Anyone who can help me fix this? Thanks in advance, Naatz

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Forgot to mention, youtube is working fine on IE, had firefox installed fine for the time since i've had this pc (about 5months) - and system specs are more then capable of handling it (4gb ram, I5 processor, high end videocard).