What do I do if Firefox crashes a few secs after trying to load any animated material, be it ads at the side of Cheezburger websites, YouTube videos, or Hulu?

I just bought a new HP Pavilion 23 inch All-In-One desktop, the one without a modem on the side because everything stands straight up. I'm usually technically literate and can figure most things out easily. This, however, dumbfounds me because I have to think and know exactly how something does what, and I cannot come up with an answer at all. Anyway I downloaded Flash a couple more times to try to fix this problem, but it hasn't gone away. What it does, is, whenever I want to watch [or don't want to watch, in some side-of-website-video-ads] the Firefox tab with the animation will be very sensitive, and the slightest click to any website, such as the next Cheezburger Website page, or just the fact that a video is loading on YouTube or on Hulu will cause Adobe Flash Player to crash within a few milliseconds. It does let you hear the first 5 seconds or so of the video before it stops [a few seconds after Adobe's unresponsiveness, I might add] due to Adobe not responding and therefore crashing. In most cases where the video does make it crash, the majority of the time either the video's picture won't load before it crashes, or, even if a picture does attempt to load, it's just a dark forest green color instead of the video's picture on YouTube. If I'm just looking at non-moving pictures and small GIFs, such as the funnies at Cheezburger websites or the funnies at Explosm.net, it doesn't crash on me. The majority of the videos I watch are Anime related. I don't want to have to use Google Chrome, since I trust Firefox to catch ads from popping up, which is very nice, but I might have to if this is not resolved.

Is anyone here to help?

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