From the sound of the add-ons it appears that you have IETab installed
to access Windows Update via FF, is that correct ?

Suggest you first open FF in Safe Mode via the Start Menu [ Mozilla
Firefox (Safe Mode) ] to see if an add-on is causing the issue. In SM
all add-ons are disabled. This has nothing to do with Windows XP Safe
Mode, it just opens FF with no add-ons.

Do you have a bunch of sites that provide RSS feeds, Richard ?
I found that FF would freeze when first opening if there is 10 or more
RSS feeds bookmarked. Since the FF 'community' didn't believe me, I
deleted the RSS feeds and the issue went away. They still don't believe
me <w>

MowGreen
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Richard Fangnail wrote:

> On Jul 9, 2:30 pm, Craig Coope <coope1...********.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:22:40 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fangnail
>>
>>
>>
>><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
>>
>>>><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??
>>
>>>>>The FF Crash Reports usually say Exception Violation which means
>>>>>something wrote to the memory where it shouldn't have.
>>
>>>>>I have no firewall either. I tried reinstalling FF and Flash too.
>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Do you have any 3rd party addons to FF? It could be something badly
>>written that has a memory leak.
>>
>>--
>>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.