Firefox is hanging and must be shut down very frequently. Over the last hour, it happened 15 times at a wide variety of sites (gmail, wikipedia...)

Firefox is hanging up very frequently (15 times in the last hour). When it hangs, the page stops loading (spinning icon on tab stops) and all windows of Firefox are non-responsive.
It seems to be random sites from gmail to wikipedia to some forums. I have tried everything mentioned on the "Firefox Hangs" page. I am sure that more information will be required. Can Firefox do a memory dump when it hangs?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== only a couple time last week, today it it much more frequent

hi again, thanks for the further reply. i have had a look at the website you suggested and the repairs look okay to do. just one more development/question
the day after my original post, the problems seemed to have gone away. but yesterday it started again.
the new thing even with the adapter plugged in, the battery says 0% and shuts down soon as i unplug the adapter.
so looking at the computer info, it says:
AC Charger (Watts): 0
Connected: Yes
Charging: No
and above that:
Battery Information:
Battery Installed: Yes
First low level warning: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 4310
Remaining Capacity (mAh): 8
Amperage (mA): 0
Voltage (mV): 10932
Cycle C*ount: 7*
*AC adapter cannot charge battery: Yes*
do you know why it wont charge the battery? is this linked to the same solutions you suggested?
thanks again for your help! I really appreciate it
Ashleigh

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