Anyone know how to stop firefox from crashing every 3 min?

Ever since upgrading to Firefox 3.6.x, it has been crashing seemingly at random. Firefox would just disappear in the middle me doing something. I nailed down one behavior that Firefox didn’t like and found a replacement solution that has worked 100% so far!

(UPDATE: Uninstall any Beta Flash plugins and install the current player (Mac). It seems that two actions will cause Firefox, at some random point in time, to just disappear or hang for a few seconds and disappear, or just hang permanently. When I browse, I’m using shortcut keys or moving so fast that often I’m not sure exactly what the last action I did was the point of a crash.

Firefox has been crashing so much, and I have found so little help, that I had to learn to slow down and see what it was I was doing that was causing the crashes. Yesterday, I browsed really slow all day. Normally this would drive me nuts, but it was an experiment.

I finally nailed the crash culprit down to one specific action: when I click in the Firefox search box and hit the first letter…BOOM! No more Firefox. I tried it again.

After a few tries, I realized it was simply typing that first letter that would just BOOM Firefox into the application black hole of non-existence. Yes, I was really sick of the “Oops, we are so embarrassed” message. That message page was practically my surrogate starting page, I’ve seen it so much.