firefox keeps crashing

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I was running Foxfire on a version that was several months old (without Vista) and getting crashing on some Google stuff. I installed version 2.0.0.2 and it looks like they fixed the crasherator. (Famous last words possibly).

Installing 2.x(forget what its at) of .Net (had 1.1) solved all my firefox issues.

I have firefox 2.0.0.2 on Windows XP and it runs very slow and eventually become unresponsive and I have to close the session. This happens no matter what site I go to or what I do. Several of my other friends have had similar problems with the latest edition of firefox. Something is not right.

Do a [ctrl]/[alt]/[del] ... Once. A window will come up showing everything that is running.

My bet is that you have countless instances of "svchost" running, each taking a piece of the action. There is a trojan that uses svchost once it gets in. A year ago I had this problem. I searched for directions to stop the thing that was causing svchost to spawn uncontrollably. It's really sneaky. I finally reinstalled XP from backup to get rid of the thing.

In the meantime, You can stop all instances of svchost one at a time, to speed things up. A crude way of dealing with it, but it works.

Firefox has been 'crashy' ever since it was Netscape.