Why does firefox "lockup" while I'm on yahoo gaming site?

When I am on the yahoo gaming site playing euchre, I lockup sometimes and it's awfully hard to get out of yahoo when this happens. Just awhile ago, I was away from my computer while I was in the Advanced Euchre room in yahoo and when I returned, I was locked up. I couldn't do anything hardly at all. I tried to leave the site,,but it would not respond. Well, I finally was able to re-boot the computer and THAT enabled me to close out the gaming site and restart the computer. It's happened to me several times before. I don't know if it's yahoo or Mozilla Firefox? Anyway, I would appreciate any info you can provide for me to avoid future encounters with Mr. Lockup.

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