Firefox crashes and freeze then quickly spread to the rest of the computer, forcing a cold reboot.

The problem started a few weeks back. I would be browsing the web with several tabs open, when suddenly the browser would freeze, get stuck on the spinning wheel.
As a first step, it would be that the Firefox that froze, but in the space of a few minutes the laptop would have stopped responding. Also, I was unable to force Firefox altogether.
The two Web sites that seem to be more likely to cause the crash were culture11 and YouTube. I noted that it would take 20-30 minutes (sometimes more) to the problem to appear.

Your computer runs out of memory when this happens.

Try to keep an eye on the current memory usage to see what is happening.

You can check for problems with the latest version of the Flash plugin and try these:

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox (you will need to close and restart Firefox).

  • Firefox > Preferences > advanced > General > Browsing: "use hardware acceleration when available.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/tools > Modules > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is the cause of the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/tools > Modules > appearance).

  • Do NOT click on the reset button on the startup window Mode without failure.

Create a new profile as a test to see if your profile is the source of the problems.

See "create a profile":

If the new profile works then you can transfer files from a profile in the new profile, but be careful not to copy files corrupted to avoid transporting on the problem.

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