Firefox - Freezing My PC

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Been using Firefox for several years now, but the last month or so it has been locking my PC. No particular website causes it, can be anything, but when it freezes my only option is to do a hard reset. Not too fond of having to do this.

I've tried running it without any plugins, in safe mode, still no difference. I've tried a few other browsers but prefer Firefox, plus it is pi**ing me off now so would like to find the problem lol.

I have a feeling it might be conflicting with my graphics card. I'm running the latest driver, but did find this

Code: 
http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists
- but not too.

Graphics Card is a ATI Radeon HD 4670 (RV730)

If anyone has an idea would appreciate it. I'm not a gamer so don't need massive power on the card, but would be willing to try a new one if anyone got a recommendation of similar spec. Maybe not ATI?

Thanks for any help/advice over this.
 
Might be worth disabling hardware acceleration as I suspect it would be the only thing likely to lock up your PC (not sure how you do this as I haven't used FF for a few years).
 
ARD said:
but when it freezes my only option is to do a hard reset.
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Next time this happens, just try waiting for a few minutes and see what happens.

This happened to me a few times in the past and it would become responsive again after waiting a min.
 
Mine did this. I switched to Pale Moon and it's been fine ever since.
There's even a little tool for importing all your shortcuts/passwords etc.
 
Things which cause issues in FF are: java (it's honestly amazing how quickly ff will start having issues when websites start expecting a new version of java than the one you have installed - first thing to check), messed up profile (takes 30 sec to check this), flash - latest version (finally) auto updates - always worth checking but more often it comes down to a gpu accelerated issue than flash it's self, messed up cache - flush it.
 
Thanks for the replies, sorry should have said, tried a new profile, flushed cache, disable hard ware acceleration, everything up to date, just can't figure it out
 
As much as I like Firefox, I've given up on it for the time being and gone over to Chrome to see how that goes
 
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