Firefox won't always load pages

For the last week or so, I will be browsing just fine like I always have. But then, when I try to go to a different page, sometimes the page won't load in and Firefox says something like it can't find the page. I'll click both Reload and Try Again several times and after a while, the page will come in normally. I don't know what's causing this but it's really annoying. It's not really one specific site. It was happening so I updated Firefox. But it still happened. So, I got the newest version of Firefox and it still happens.

Make sure that ZoneAlarm isn't blocking Firefox from closing properly.
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs and [[Firefox hangs]] (Hang at exit)

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