Why does Firefox freeze and/crash shortly after I install "updates"?

Recently, after I have installed a newer version of Firefox, or updates you have provided my system freezes, won't open sites I access. This also affects my e-mail accounts!
It's almost enough to make me reluctantly revert to Ineternet Explorer.'''bold text'''

Does it help if you disable the plugin-container process?
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

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