Version 5 of firefox causes my drive to grind and the program won't close without force quitting

I reinstalled program but problem still occurs. When I start Firefox my disk drive continues to work very hard and doesn't slow down. When I try to quit Firefox it won't and I have to use force quit

I found out what was wrong. It's an ad-on. SoThink Web Video Downloader Not that it is faulty or not compatible, it just keeps a cache of EVERYTHING you visit that is flash. Not just the flash that you download, but any flash on any site you visit. Mine was huge, I emptied it, and the problem stopped.

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