Firefox is crashing when I try to download anything.

Whenever I try to download anything, the download window will open up, but then will freeze. This started as an intermittent error, but now appears to be happening every time.
I am running Toshiba T510i Win7 x64 with Sophos Anti-Virus. This same issue does not occur at home when I am using my AMD machine, with Kaspersky.
Both instances have the same addons and themes.
Is anyone else having this issue? When I searched for a resolution, I found a page detailing removal of the downloads.sqlite file. This has not resolved issue.

This appears to be known but resolved on a bug report found about it. I have post on the bug report. I will update here if I receive a response. Meanwhile you can try the following:
Hello,
Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration. Since this feature was added to Firefox, it has gradually improved, but there still are a few glitches.
You might need to restart Firefox in order for this to take effect, so save all work first (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.).
Then perform these steps:
*Click the orange Firefox button at the top left, then select the "Options" button, or, if there is no Firefox button at the top, go to Tools > Options.
*In the Firefox options window click the ''Advanced'' tab, then select "General".
*In the settings list, you should find the ''Use hardware acceleration when available'' checkbox. Uncheck this checkbox.
*Now, restart Firefox and see if the problems persist.
Additionally, please check for updates for your graphics driver by following the steps mentioned in the following Knowledge base articles:
[[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]]
[[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]
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