See:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.

See Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile:

• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.

If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)

See:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox

Here's another: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-1ac81dff-186c-4ebc-9580-4f0ca2110912 4.5 days since version was first installed.

 Application Basics

Name
Firefox

Version
6.0.2

User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2

Profile Directory

  Open Containing Folder

Enabled Plugins

  about:plugins

Build Configuration

  about:buildconfig

 Extensions

Name

Version

Enabled

ID

20-20 3D Viewer
4.5.2.0
true
2020Player@2020Technologies.com

Better Facebook!
5.911
true
betterfacebook@mattkruse.com

Personas
1.6.2
true
personas@christopher.beard

PriceBlink
2.1
true
info@priceblink.com

Yahoo! Toolbar
2.3.8.20110620112826
true
{635abd67-4fe9-1b23-4f01-e679fa7484c1}

HP Smart Web Printing
4.0
false
smartwebprinting@hp.com

Java Console
6.0.14
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0014-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.15
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0015-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.16
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0016-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.17
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0017-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.19
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0019-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.20
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0020-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.21
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0021-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.22
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0022-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.23
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0023-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.24
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0024-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Java Console
6.0.26
false
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0026-ABCDEFFEDCBA}

Kaspersky URL Advisor
9.0.0.736
false
linkfilter@kaspersky.ru

Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant
1.2.1
false
{20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}

 Modified Preferences

     Name

     Value

accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
0

browser.history_expire_days.mirror
180

browser.places.importBookmarksHTML
false

browser.places.importDefaults
false

browser.places.leftPaneFolderId
-1

browser.places.migratePostDataAnnotations
false

browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2

browser.places.updateRecentTagsUri
false

browser.startup.homepage
http://www.geocaching.com/Default.aspx|http://bl126w.blu126.mail.live.com/default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0&rru=inbox|http://ww…

browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
20110902133214

browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:6.0.2

browser.tabs.loadInBackground
false

browser.tabs.warnOnClose
false

extensions.lastAppVersion
6.0.2

general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet
( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)

keyword.URL
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?FORM=IEFM1&q=

network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true

places.database.lastMaintenance
1315688814

places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
126655

places.last_vacuum
1305848783

< removed print prefs -c >

Had to cut it short because of the limit on the number of characters allowed. Hope what I removed wasn't critical to figuring out the problem.

I'm not sure what a good a new profile will do me because the things I want to use are in my profile. This sounds like an extremely time-consuming "solution." I have bookmarks I use daily, that's how I view my bills, access my accounts, etc. If I want to waste my time, I'll just use IE. Seems to me with the number of people experiencing problems, there is a problem which didn't exist under earlier versions. Instead of many people trying a lot of different things in an attempt to "fix" the problem, I think it would make more sense to actually fix the issue with an update so everyone experiencing the problem can have it fixed.

What specifically in my profile do you think is the problem? Let's narrow it down a bit.

I especially like how all the instructions say I must close Firefox. When I close Firefox, the instructions I am reading by using Firefox are also closed.