Firefox keeps freezing, resulting in blue screen errors

Question

Whenever I use Firefox, it runs just fine for about 10 minutes, then it stops responding, and doesn't work for 30 seconds to a minute. Sometimes when it does this, I go into Task Manager to shut down Firefox, and when it shuts down, my computer screen glitches up, then it instantly blue screens.
This problem started happening to me right when I updated from version 3.6 to 5.0 a few months ago, and now it does this on every version of Firefox I try using. Infact, version 3.6 doesn't work at all now, that version freezes the moment the browser opens, and sometimes blue screens as well.
Does anyone know why Firefox continuously freezes and give blue screen errors?
Also, the only extension I have running is Adblock Plus. The browser still freezes when I have Adblock disabled.

Answer 1

Wait so you are saying that if you update the BIOS prior to imaging, then you do not get the error? As part of practice, I always update the BIOS on a new system before imaging.
For removing drivers, you can use DISM after mounting your image.
DISM /IMAGE:c:\folder\mount /GET-DRIVERS
This will show you a list of drivers. If you have more drivers than the CMD console can show, you may want to send the output to the text file. Information format will show the original INF name, the version and the "new" file name as it exists
in the image. When removing a driver you need to specify this "new" name, for example oem53.inf.
Dism /Image:C:\test\offline /Remove-Driver /Driver:OEM53.infThen unmount /commit changes.See here for documentation.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825070.aspx