Firefox crashing with torrent sites

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Recently my firefox browser has been crashing when I goto torrent sites such as mininova, IE also crashes so does google chrome, I haven't tried opera or any others yet.

This is a fairly recent install of windows, I didn't have any issues until yesterday. Since then I've installed k lites codec pack, and adaware. I've tried uninstalling both but nothing seems to help. I can't even view the page it crashes the second I press enter. Any suggestions?

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Recently my firefox browser has been crashing when I goto torrent sites such as mininova, IE also crashes so does google chrome, I haven't tried opera or any others yet.

This is a fairly recent install of windows, I didn't have any issues until yesterday. Since then I've installed k lites codec pack, and adaware. I've tried uninstalling both but nothing seems to help. I can't even view the page it crashes the second I press enter. Any suggestions?

what does the event viewer say? it could be a faulty plugin.

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what does the event viewer say? it could be a faulty plugin.

There isn't an error when I goto tools>error console, I don't know of any other way to check, I disabled all the FF addons, which was only java quickstarter. Also, new issue, I can't even type the name of the sites into google search or it crashes the browser.

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There isn't an error when I goto tools>error console, I don't know of any other way to check, I disabled all the FF addons, which was only java quickstarter. Also, new issue, I can't even type the name of the sites into google search or it crashes the browser.

After searching the net for answers, I'm still stumped. I ran spybot and adaware, but it still didn't resolve the issue.

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probably has something to do with your addons

I have flash which I just downloaded, and java, nothing else installed that I'm aware of. Even if I type the name of the site into google search it crashes, it's like my browsers are blocking 2 sites, I've never run into a problem like this before. I'm just checking tools>addons in FF, is there something else I should be checking as well? I also tried FF in safe mode, it did the same thing. IE and google chrome do it as well.

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Have you tried a new Firefox profile?

I have, and it still does it, this is weeks later and I still haven't found a solution. It crashes with two popular sites on all of my browsers, I've tried IE, FF, chrome. I know this is an oldish post, but does anyone else have any ideas?

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what windows?

faulty ram?

try linux livecd

update network driver

reinstall windows

From what I've read on other forums it's something on the site, an ad I guess, that is being blocked, but I couldn't find any solution in any of those posts either.

I guess whatever blocks the ad, basically blacklists the known websites containing it. Annoying, but oh well, least I have an idea what is causing it. Thanks for the help.

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Did the Firefox crash reporter catch the problem? If so, type "about:crashes" in Firefox location bar, click on one of the crash reports generated, and post a link to the report here; the info contained in the report can offer a lot of insight into what happened (much more useful than something in the Windows event log).

If the Firefox crash reporter didn't catch the problem (no reports in about:crashes that correspond to your crashes), then the crash is probably caused by a plugin (e.g., Flash; note that extensions are not plugins, despite some people calling them that) because plugins usually do not play well with the crash reporter.

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