Firefox has encountered a problem!

[Ivy]

Hi,

My Firefox and even IE keep encountering problems and have to be closed, I don't know whats causing this!! It keeps closing!!

Any help would be very nice, thankyou

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

What do you do on Firefox? Do you frequently go to Youtube (or similar sites) or play online games?

Are you doing anything specific when firefox reports the warning?
(doesn't have to be in Firefox, could be other programs loaded too)

[Ivy]

Yes it happened on youtube many times aslo on myspace and other sites but never on CH, I don't play games (unless its ch games lol)

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Computer specs please.

Hard Drive Capacity
Hard Drive Free Space
RAM
Processor Speed

[Ivy]

Using windows XP Pro

Free Space 16.8GB
Total Space 19.5GB

My RAM -512 MB

Processor speed 2.40GHz

[Ivy]

Any more Information Carbon, like my phone number or somethin 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Any more Information Carbon, like my phone number or somethin 

That's ok......for now....

Anyways, I suspect your computer is trying to cope with a number of resource-intensive programs, cause firefox to crash (because can get pretty resource intensive).

My suggestion would be to start here:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,62253.0.html

[Ivy]

even IE keep encountering problems

Internet explorer has the same problem for me!

[ChrisXPPro]

Just joining in briefly.

512 RAM is IMO very borderline indeed ...... even if your paging file is generous.

YouTube and myspace type sites seem to be very heavy coding and are typical of examples I have noticed can bog me down too, on IE and FF.  That said my RAM is quite generous but even so - I reckon the problems may only be greater if memory is not adequate and increase the chances of this happening.

Forum sites do overall seem very undemanding on resources.

Just noticed - Carbon has a point there re other resource-intensive progs.

[Ivy]

So do I go for the steps given in the link?
Are all steps important?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Not all of them are important, but recommended.

They are pretty straight forward, and will definitely improve your computers performance if you have never done them before.

[patio]

Is this on the new re-install Ivy ? ?
Were all drivers re-installed afterwards ?

[Ivy]

Will Ccleaner delete my restore points?, it does that sometimes.

What does Erunt do?

Will Disk Defregmentar make any changes to my current computer settings etc?

just being careful (you already know what a terrible problem I've had with this comp)

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Will Ccleaner delete my restore points?, it does that sometimes.

No, but make sure you configure it the way I said in the guide.

What does Erunt do?

Creates a Registry Backup. Perfectly harmless.

Will Disk Defregmentar make any changes to my current computer settings etc?

Nope, perfectly safe. In fact, it is recommended you do this at least once a week.

[Ivy]

Is this on the new re-install Ivy ? ?

Yes It is.

Were all drivers re-installed afterwards ?

I don't know that, I just followed the steps you gave me.
I formatted my C and D drives(did a quick format for the D drive before installing windows)