My firefox crashes every 2-5 minutes for unknown reasons. its getting really annoying and i really need help with this :( i cant seem to get an ID on the crash report, its giving a different reason everytime.. i think. please help !

i have many many crash reports and they all seem different. yet, whenever i search the support pages for help on those crash IDs it shows 0 results. alot of people are having the same problems, and i hope we ALL can get help on this. its getting really frustrating and annoying :(

i doubt it is from skype. i havent used skype in 2 days or so.
here are the crash reports IDs from JUST today..
bp-8c7fab55-79c8-4db1-9527-4ba072111013 10/13/2011 4:51 PM
bp-db6bf6c4-cf34-4eae-a742-105842111013 10/13/2011 4:51 PM
bp-f28611cf-3ff0-4658-a843-05da92111013 10/13/2011 4:32 PM
bp-03fa57ef-580d-4f1d-8fb4-52ac72111013 10/13/2011 4:21 PM
bp-d07e0d82-df2a-41c8-a19b-bb99e2111013 10/13/2011 4:19 PM
bp-fafbd8cf-6769-4b76-8153-c17242111013 10/13/2011 4:06 PM
bp-ee9694ab-585b-4963-8b94-e46432111013 10/13/2011 3:47 PM
bp-773242e1-a87d-4e19-90cb-ce4e52111013 10/13/2011 3:37 PM
bp-6bae0db3-895b-4239-8a71-758ce2111013 10/13/2011 3:36 PM
bp-6dfc1b57-5a8f-4244-baa1-8d0642111013 10/13/2011 3:36 PM
bp-9a6589cd-0e2f-4299-b517-a6c862111013 10/13/2011 3:31 PM

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