Periodically, my mouse freezes when I'm web surfing. Or leave a website open for a prolong period while doing something else at home. The only fix is to turn off the computer and reboot it. During freezes, I can't exit a website, I can't even shut down the computer normally or access task master or anything. I have to hold down the power on button until the computer shuts off or shut off the surge protective power strip. Sometimes the mouse will unfreeze on its own but shortly thereafter goes back to its old trick of freezing.

Today, I got it into my head that the problem wasn't my computer or some software interfering. So I logged on using something I dislike using, Internet Explorer. After going through the same motions as usual, including visiting websites that have frozen before, I experienced no freezes. This indicates the issue if Firefox. I have even opened multiple Tabs to provoke a possible freeze with IE but it doesn't freeze So again it must be Firefox.