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Firefox reboots computer without warning

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cowboyengineer
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I have a problem with certain web sites - when I try to load them, Firefox will suddenly, without warning, reboot the computer. This happens only on certain web sites (some content pages on alternet.org is one of them that does it the most consistently).

I am using 3.6.10 running on a Win2k platform. I recently upgraded from Service Pack 2 to Service Pack 4, and have encountered this problem only since the SP4 upgrade. I am running three plugins, flashblocker, Ghostery, and offline management disable.

This does not generate a crash report.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

I have a problem with certain web sites - when I try to load them, Firefox will suddenly, without warning, reboot the computer. This happens only on certain web sites (some content pages on alternet.org is one of them that does it the most consistently). I am using 3.6.10 running on a Win2k platform. I recently upgraded from Service Pack 2 to Service Pack 4, and have encountered this problem only since the SP4 upgrade. I am running three plugins, flashblocker, Ghostery, and offline management disable. This does not generate a crash report. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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SirGnip
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I'm also seeing the same thing. Windows 2000 (5.00.2195), Service Pack 4. This is on a fresh Windows 2000 install. Firefox 5.0.1 was one of the first apps I installed. I haven't installed any add-ons, plugins, or extensions. I barely have anything else installed on this box. I haven't even installed Flash yet.

Firefox instantly reboots my box when I visit http://www.activestate.com, 100% of the time. Per the previous post, I tried surfing around alternet.org, but no reboots for me. It was generating 64K minidumps for me.