Firefox freezes and a blank drop down box shows up, then I have to force quit the program

Firefox will randomly freeze and a white blank box will drop down. I have to force quit firefox and restart it, then it usually works fine without errors for a while. This seems to happen mostly when I am on facebook.
== This happened ==
Just once or twice

Disabled flash player plugin and it doesn't freeze anymore. Plan on reinstalling flash now and hopefully freezing stops.

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