Adobe Reader Crashes My Browser

Mozilla's Firefox Internet browser is one of the most popular browsers in the world, second only to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

As of April 2011, Firefox held a 21.63 percent share of the worldwide browser market. Unfortunately, problems with plug-ins, websites and general operating system incompatibility occasionally cause Firefox to become unstable and crash.

To prevent these crashes from occurring again, the cause of the crash needs to be identified so an effective fix can be implemented.

Take note of the action or circumstance that lead to the crash.
Pay particular attention to the timing of the crash and whether it occurred while launching Firefox, when trying to view a specific website, when attempting to download a file or at a seemingly random time.


Repeat the action that caused the crash to see whether it causes Firefox to crash again. Some crashes are caused by memory problems or other external factors and may be a one-time occurrence.

Repeating the action determines whether the crash was caused by errors within Firefox or if there were other factors involved.

Hold the "Shift" key down on your keyboard and relaunch Firefox.
This will launch the application in "Safe Mode," disabling all plug-ins and themes.

Repeat the action that caused the crash; if the problem was caused by a plug-in or theme then the crash will not occur this time.

Open a new Firefox tab and type "about:crashes" without the quotation marks into the navigation bar.
Press "Enter" to load the Firefox crash log listing.

Select the most recent entry and scroll through it to find the name of the plug-in, theme or other component that caused the crash.

Disable or update the component to remove the cause of the crash.
This information should be contained in the "Details>Signature" or "Details>Crash Reason" sections.

Open the Tools menu in Firefox and select "Add-ons" if you cannot resolve the crash problem by disabling or updating a plug in.
Scroll through the list of installed browser add ons, disabling add ons one at a time in an attempt to correct the error.

If the crash occurs when trying to view certain types of content, such as streaming video or other media files, focus in disabling add-ons that are related to that type of content.

Open the Help menu and select the "Troubleshooting Information" option if crashes occur only when attempting to download files.

Locate the "Application Basics" entry, then click the "Open Containing Folder" link to open the folder containing your Firefox profile.

Exit Firefox, then select the "downloads.sqlite" file in your profile folder and delete it.
This removes your download history, eliminating any problems with the file and allowing Firefox to create a new file when it launches again.

Update Firefox.
Some crashes are caused by problems within the Firefox program itself, such as problems with specific operating systems or crashes that occur only in new Firefox releases.

Updates may contain fixes to these Firefox crashes, eliminating the crash problem once the browser update is installed.

If you are using Firefox profiles to work with Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9 in the browser, you may encounter a browser crash. This can occur when you have a PDF open in one profile and a normal HTML page in another profile in Firefox, and then you close the Firefox window with the PDF, firefox crashes

This is a bug in Adobe Reader/Acrobat 9 and is fixed in version 9.3 onwards.
Check this link
Check this link

If the flash player has crashed once, then it may not be a problem but if this is occurring repeatedly, then try to upgrade your flash player. If your flash player is up-to-date, then it may be the incompatibility between the flash player and the web-browser. In that case, try to have both the most recent updated browsers, like Mozilla Firefox 4, Google Chrome 12 or IE 8 or IE 9 and corresponding updated flash player.

To download latest softwares, click on the links below:

1. Adobe Flash Player IE (for Internet Explorer, Avant,etc)
2. Adobe Flash Player Non-IE (for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, etc)
3. Mozilla Firefox 4 RC
   
4. Google Chrome 12 Beta
   

If you use Firefox or Chrome as browser, then Flash Player for Non-IE is sufficient, but still I recommend you to install both the IE and Non-IE flash players.

Hope this helps,
Regards,

Mrityunjay

Get the Fire fox update.

What's your processor running at?

try using flock, It is also powered by mozilla but faster than firefox. you can download it at www.flock.com
there are only few add ons/plug ins but it sure does work faster and less or no crashes at all.

some of your addons/plugins in your browser are not compatible with your browser version especially adobe flash player or shockwave flash.

Possible Solution:

Uninstall and Reinstall addons - Adobe flash player / shockwave flash.

Regards,
Baskaran

Try saving the file to disk and then running after downloading.

My first recomendation is to run a virus scan. Hopefully you have an up to date virus app installed.
If you are sure the problem is not a virus, my next recommendation is to uninstall adobe flash and then reinstall it. From the sound of what you are doing, I believe Flash may be corrupted.
Last option is to reinstall Firefox.

I too use Firefox and so far I have not had any problems with it. After you install FF, you should close it before installing Adobe Flash. After you have finished installing Flash Player, your FF should be working. BTW be sure to get the latest version of FF.