3 Problems with Firefox: PDFs, Downloads, and Drop Menus

Three problems.
1) When I open a PDF in Firefox, where ever the cursor is becomes a kind of anchor from which the PDF file is highlighted. There is no way to deselect this (its like when you click-hold to select text), and it also renders all interface options with Firefox ineffective, requiring a CTRL-ALT-DEL to close Firefox and regain functionality.
2) When downloading a file, the sub widow asking if you wish to save file or cancel appears, clicking save file greys out that option, and the sub window freezes on top of all other windows. Firefox, however, remains operational. The download never actually starts.
3) Once a drop down menu has been opened, one can usually find the option they desire and click on it. But I cant, when I try to click on an option in a drop menu, it closes the menu and clicks whatever was behind the menu at the point where I clicked.
More Info: I am running Firefox 8 (I had this problem with 7 as well) on two different laptops. One laptop encounters NONE of these problems, the other does. The one that does have these problems is an ASUS U56E-BBL6 running Windows 7, my other is a Sony VAIO also running 7. Additionally, my roommate also has a ASUS, and he uses Firefox just fine.
Since encountering this problem on the ASUS, I have used IE (which I hate), Chrome and Opera. All three other browsers work perfectly and encounter none of these issues, but I miss the customization of Firefox.
Please help.

I can't help you much with BlackBerry link, but if you want to get your files on device memory right now then you can either copy to SD card and move them with file manager. Or..... enable wifi access on the phone if you have wireless, that way you can access both device and SD Memory as shared folders on the network.

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