Firefox mostly does not respond

I bought and ran Registry Booster cause i had lots of errors and I was always getting the message below in troubleshooting info. (IT JUST POPPED UP AS I WAS TYPING THIS!).
My computer ran like a charm for 1 day. Since then it became unstable and crashed. Mozilla is back to mostly non-responding or suddenly closing. Is Registry Booster legit? My computer download speed is now 0.8. It is advertisd by Verizon as 3.0 mg. Help!?!?!?!?

yes. in SAfe Mode it does. i have even tried resetting everything in safe mode but the problem persists when firefox4 is running in normal mode.

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(2) Disable the Flash player plugin from using hardware acceleration
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