New install of ff15 always crashes in less than a minute

After way too much pestering, I upgraded from a product that worked, ff3.6, to one that doesn't, ff15. It upgraded 3 plugins.
Now when I open ff, it doesn't matter if I try to actually use it or just sit and look at a blank page, it crashes in 30 seconds or so.
Try going through that more than 20 times on a fresh install!
Using XP. But that gave me the excuse to try Chrome, and I've found that it's very stable and much, much faster. And of course, I'm using Chrome now to send this message.

*ahem*
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I believe this constitutes a valid example of an infuriating problem?
edit: if it helps, I spent most of that time TRYING to browse Planetside 2 beta forums. But it is still crashing peridically and I no longer have any of the same tabs open.

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