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After showing a few web pages the word "stopped" comes up and Firefox hangs and I have to manually shut down the .exe in task manager. I have tried all listed remedys and none work.. About to dump firefox in the bin!!

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Firefox 3/4 windows 7

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

couple of weeks ago

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Lunascape/6.1.7.21880 Safari/533.3

Firefox 3/4 windows 7 == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == couple of weeks ago == == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Lunascape/6.1.7.21880 Safari/533.3

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cor-el
cor-el
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Which security software (firewall) do you have?

Some like ZoneAlarm have been reported to cause such issues.

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I am using McAfee but it has never caused this problem before. I have narrowed it down to Java. I have the latest update. If i switch Java off it does not do it. Any suggestions?