On Jul 9, 2:30*pm, Craig Coope <coope1...********.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fangnail
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> <richardfangn...@excite.com> wrote:
> >On Jul 9, 2:13*pm, Craig Coope <coope1...********.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:09:04 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fangnail
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> >> <richardfangn...@excite.com> wrote:
> >> >I have XP and something has been crashing my Firefox. *I've tried
> >> >everything I can think of, I even ran it with no antivirus. *Something
> >> >is STILL driving CPU Usage up to 100% for no apparent reason, cuasing
> >> >FF to crash. *Any idea what it might be??
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> >> >The FF Crash Reports usually say Exception Violation which means
> >> >something wrote to the memory where it shouldn't have.
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> >> >I have no firewall either. *I tried reinstalling FF and Flash too.
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> >> Ctrl Alt Del and have a look to see what is using the CPU in the
> >> Process tab. Usually System Idle Process will be using most if your
> >> system is idle. Do this when Firefox is running and when it's not.
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> >I've done this and it usually looks normal. It's too bad you can't
> >"record" and see later what drove it up so high.
> >I even tried the Event Manager but it had nothing.
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> Do you have any 3rd party addons to FF? It could be something badly
> written that has a memory leak.
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> --
> The Zero ST

I just discovered two Microsoft DRM plugins and disabled them. could
those be causing FF crashes?
ALso how can I totally remove them instead of just disabling them in
FF?
I also disabled Genuine Advantage and some other plugins I never
wanted.