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[PTS]

I'm a Microsoft fan but Firefox is head and shoulders ahead of everyone else including IE.

[DrFishfinder]

Run Malwarebytes AntiMalware first. It is free. (It will say 30 day free trial, but it will continue to work as a manual scanner/manual update after that period.) Then run SuperAntiSpyware, the free version is fine. Remove whatever these two programs find.

 

Install WOT on all of your browsers.

http://www.mywot.com/

 

While nothing can keep you completely safe, WOT would likely have stopped you before you visited a bad website where it looks like you picked up a minor cootie.

 

Finally, run HijackThis and check your results by uploading a log of the results to this page:

http://www.hijackthis.de/

 

Fix whatever the log analyzer suggests is nasty/bad/etc. But be very careful with this. If you have any doubts, don't bother with the HijackThis part, or have someone who knows the program do it for you.

I did the Malwarebytes already. I'll run the other stuff as well.

 

Many obligatoids, Dean

[bbb]

While FF addons are updated automatically, plugins are not. Check out this page and see if you need to update something (you will need to allow javascript on this page):

 

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

 

If you still crash, start disabling your addons and plugins to see if one of those is at fault.

 

 

Thanks - I have a lot of out of date ones it seems, but there is a ton listed. Which plugs-ins do I need, and which do I not want....My shockwave flash is out of date, and I suspect that is the biggest problem

[Pete]

I have a Mac and am not a big fan of Safari. It tends to freeze my computer up and frequently becomes unresponsive. So I installed Chrome. It is ok- but there are a couple things I do not like. For one, it is not obvious when a page is loading. I don't see a refresh button. And most of all- I miss my Google toolbar! There must be a way to have a google toolbar in chrome, right?

[Joe Miner]

I love Firefox and use it at work on my machine running XP.

 

I got a new laptop at the end of last year, and was running it on Windows 7 and every time I closed it, I had to go to the task manager and end the process before I could start it back up. That got annoying, so I switched to Chrome. I'd like to go back to Firefox, but haven't seen or heard of this being a problem with anyone else.

 

Any thoughts?