Photo Booth is killing my computer D:

Something very strange is happening with my Mac and I am very sad!! It started today, when I opened Photo Booth to take a picture. When I pressed the red camera button, the button disappeared and my cursor turned into the rainbow swirl. I tried force quitting Photo Booth, but it didn't work. So, I went to Firefox to wait for it to recover, but then the same thing happened to Firefox! The rainbow swirl appeared and wouldn't recover, and I couldn't force quit it. When I tried emptying the trash, the Finder "froze" in the same way. I had to manually shut down my computer. Now, every time I open Photo Booth and try to take a picture, the same thing happens and the only way to fix it is to manually shut down, because the computer "freezes" if I choose shut down from the menu. I can't use anything on my computer. I really like Photo Booth and don't want to have to stop using it. Please help me!

You might try deleting this file: com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist
It is in your Home folder/Library/Preferences

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