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Firefox freezes my system

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Aardaerimus
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Recently, Firefox 4 has begun to freeze my Toshiba laptop with a black screen, shortly after opening Firefox.

The only way that I can fix it is by completely removing and reinstalling Firefox. Then it works for a while and begins to crash my computer again, requiring my to hold my power button to kill it.

Thinking that perhaps it was my addons, I completely removed Firefox 4 again, and reinstalled with no addons. Still, after a week or so of use, it begins crashing the system again. After the initial system hang, FF4 consistently hangs the system mere seconds after opening.

It's a complete system freeze, with a black screen, and the only thing logged in the event viewer is that the previous shutdown was unexpected.

I am forced to downgrade to FireFox 3.6, which is sad, because I like FF4, but I simply can no longer use it on my laptop.

I'm on a Toshiba Qosmio, running Vista Ultimate 64bit with 4GB RAM. Video card is NVIDIA GefOrce 9700M GTS with Drive Version 8.17.12.6658.

My system is stable otherwise, and I have no problem with other applications or games that I play.

Recently, Firefox 4 has begun to freeze my Toshiba laptop with a black screen, shortly after opening Firefox. The only way that I can fix it is by completely removing and reinstalling Firefox. Then it works for a while and begins to crash my computer again, requiring my to hold my power button to kill it. Thinking that perhaps it was my addons, I completely removed Firefox 4 again, and reinstalled with no addons. Still, after a week or so of use, it begins crashing the system again. After the initial system hang, FF4 consistently hangs the system mere seconds after opening. It's a complete system freeze, with a black screen, and the only thing logged in the event viewer is that the previous shutdown was unexpected. I am forced to downgrade to FireFox 3.6, which is sad, because I like FF4, but I simply can no longer use it on my laptop. I'm on a Toshiba Qosmio, running Vista Ultimate 64bit with 4GB RAM. Video card is NVIDIA GefOrce 9700M GTS with Drive Version 8.17.12.6658. My system is stable otherwise, and I have no problem with other applications or games that I play.

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frankie81
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i seem to have the same problem, On my Win 7 64bit Ultimate, I ve downgraded to ver 3.6, which seem to work fine.

I ve assembled this computer myself, Intel Motherboard, I3 processor, Nvidia gt240 graphic card, 4 gb ddr3 ram, I tb HDD.

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