Firefox crashes with a big noise

I recently bought a Mac with a 3.6 GHz Intel Core i5 processor. It has happened to me, when working with Firefox, that suddenly I hear a big scratching noise coming from the speakers, the cursor freezes, and the computer stops responding. When I get back to Firefox and open it again (after shutting down the computer) sometimes a message appears asking me to choose witch tabs should be closed since it was one of them the cause for the sudden shutting down. This happened a few times and I can't find any pattern except for the fact that there was always some kind of file transfer process. For example, in two of the times I was listening to online radio stations. Two other times I was uploading files through a file delivery site.
What may the problem be?
Thank you!
Joao

I think I fixed it! run command prompt as administrator and put in these two commands, then restart.
netsh i i r r
netsh winsock reset catalog
this will clear any old data in the system. I did it and have been running good so far for two days.

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