Firefox Continuously Crashes!

Firefox continuously crashes and I'm getting really tired of it. I had this problem though out December as well. It would crash all the time at any given time. I would restart the browser and it would crash again as soon as I restarted it.

I had to reinstall my OS recently and reinstalled with flash being my only add-on.

It still crashed. Disabled all the add-ons... Still Crashing... I don't know what to do. I like Firefox, but I see no fix for this. I might have to go to Chrome even though I don't think they have all the add-ons I need.

BTW I have Windows 7 64 bit. This should have nothing to do with it though because my friend has the same OS on his computer and Firefox has never crashed on him.

 

FF never really crashed here on my laptop.
I'm on Win 7 x64 as well.

Which FF version are you running exactly?
And what about the antivirus if you don't mind me asking?

 

The latest 3.5.7.

Avira antivir.

This problem is on my desktop BTW. My laptop with Vista 64bit is fine.

 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox

Try following Mozilla's KB article on how to completely purge FF from your system. Then reinstall it.

 

When does it crash?

What other applications are you running while you use Firefox?

If all that is installed is the flash add on, then we need a bit more info.

 

I just installed it yesterday. Fresh windows install.

A lot is how I can answer that.
Like just now I was check my yahoo email and it crashed.


The same programs I run on my laptop when I'm away.
Steam, Avira, X-Fire, Skype...

 

Try different versions of FF. Otherwise, I don't have any more suggestions.

 

check your hardware drivers.
I had similar symptoms before. then I installed newer version of my GPU drivers.
Now looks fine (i hope).

 

As Bog suggested, try different versions. I've found some FF versions to be stable, and some "crash continuously." Or you could try Chrome or Opera, if those don't hinder your capabilities.

Cheers...

 

Funny you mention Yahoo email. No matter what version I use, FF sometimes crashes for me when I check my Yahoo email also. It doesn't do it on other sites, just Yahoo Mail. The only extension I have is ABP. Perhaps we're on to something here.

 

Try to disable all plug ins and see if the problem still occurs...

 

I have had them disabled. I find even Chrome crashes on me. I really don't know what is wrong. Its really pissing me off. How can this be hardware?

 

How can this be hardware?

Bad DIMM, bad PSU, etc can easily cause BSODs or applications to crash. But this seems like a different issue.

I assume you've updated the drivers. Try a wired connection instead of wireless. If it affects multiple browsers it could be anything.

 

It seems to me that any hardware issues would manifest themselves as problems with not only the application, but the entire OS.

 

Yes up to date drivers. On wire.

 

try to run memory-hungry application (w live messenger maybe?) and see if the msn crashes or not.
or try replacing network card?