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Err, I seem to have a slight problem with Firefox:

Every now and then, when I try to open a site instead of opening it, a download pop-up appears and it downloads the site instead of opening it. Any clues on what could be wrong?

And another one: Sometimes when opening a page with images, it crashes completely (eg. when I search google for sisters of mercy when I'm too lazy to remember the URL)

Perhaps I just have a faulty edition of the browser, or? (though it appears to be the latest one)

Obviousman wrote:Err, I seem to have a slight problem with Firefox:

Every now and then, when I try to open a site instead of opening it, a download pop-up appears and it downloads the site instead of opening it. Any clues on what could be wrong?

That usually happens when a web server has been incorrectly configured, and the server is setting the wrong Response Headers / content type for a particluar file suffix.

(it's not a Firefox problem)

Obviousman wrote:And another one: Sometimes when opening a page with images, it crashes completely (eg. when I search google for sisters of mercy when I'm too lazy to remember the URL)

Perhaps I just have a faulty edition of the browser, or? (though it appears to be the latest one)

Sounds like too little RAM - how much have you got in your PC?

FF 1.5 is the latest version

Thanks Never had the not-FF problem with MSIE or Opera though, but if you say so it must be right

Got 512RAM, used to be my pride back when I got it (at the place where I bought it they told me I was crazy to put so much in)

There I was thinking you had a techy "friendly fire" problem. Shows how many FPSes I play.

Obviousman wrote:Thanks Never had the not-FF problem with MSIE or Opera though, but if you say so it must be right

Got 512RAM, used to be my pride back when I got it (at the place where I bought it they told me I was crazy to put so much in)

512MB RAM should be plenty

It may be that there's a slight corruption in your installation of FF - maybe reinstalling it will fix that.