Firefox Hangs Randomly When I Use Flash or Java

Most of the time when i open a flash or java feature in firefox it will hang, this is for all videos, flash games etc. even things like grooveshark fail to load and randomly freeze at no apparant point. i then have to task manager/end process, but when i go back firefox retrys loading the pages to freeze at EXACTLY the same point, then i repeat the process but this time firefox says the 'well this is embarrasing' tabs thing.
i have updated both flash and java, even tried an update just now, and still no fix...
not sure it is updating correctly as when i get the adobe download manager i do not see anything appear in the box where i used to see the progress for flash player downloading.

Hi, I'm going to develop a 2D web puzzle game
(similar to Bust-A-Move in concept) which I would
like to submit to Yahoo! for their game's section. I
am fluent in Java and C++. I am wondering if I should
use Java or Flash to make my game? I am looking for a
language that offers smooth performance, ease of use,
object-oriented syntax, and high-level 2D graphical
capabilites. A high-level 2D game library would be a
big plus.I never heard about such a thing like a "game library". If you know Java and don't know Flash, why bother with the latter?
Also, I heard Java now compiles it's code to machine
bytecode on program startup when deployed from a web
applet - is this true? Probably not. It's either machine code or bytecode, but not both. You're thinking about the JIT compiler, that processes the bytecode only when it's needed, optimizing it context-specifically in the process. Yes, it does that.
Also, do the JDK libraries
feature hardware acceleration in Windows, or do I
need a special add-on libray to get hardware
acceleration?You should be able to answer that yourself. The chances for a general-purpose library "just for Windows" from Sun are pretty low. That's not what you want to do anyway, what you want to have is access to OpenGL e.g. There are libraries available for that.

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#Enter ''about:crashes'' in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A Submitted Crash Reports list will appear, similar to the one shown below.
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[[Image:aboutcrashesFx29|width=520]]
 
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