Programs shutting down at random!

My imac has become increasingly slower over the past several months. It now will shut down programs at seemingly random times with no warning (Firefox, Safari, Excel, Word, etc.).
Has anyone had problems like this and is there anything I can try to remedy this problem??

Hello asilverness
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Two things pop into my mind,
first is to Repair Disk Permissions as described in the following article:
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810#permission
second is a question, how much ram do you have in your iMac?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342?viewlocale=en_US
Dennis

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