Firefox is crashing when I use any type of seach box. And crashes unexpectantly at other times as well.

Question

<pre><nowiki>Add-ons: {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.5
BuildID: 20090624025744
CrashTime: 1284530542
InstallTime: 1284517316
ProductName: Firefox
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 193
StartupTime: 1284530372
Theme: classic/1.0
Throttleable: 1
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.5
This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed...</nowiki></pre>
this is the crash report i get everytime. And i've tried it in safe mode. No luck. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Do a malware check with a few malware scan programs.<br />
You need to use all programs because each detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database.
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
*http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and [[Searches are redirected to another site]]
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
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