Actually, I've been thinking about it and the problems happened around the time I upgraded to Windows 7, at which point I installed Firefox to my (relatively ol

Actually, I've been thinking about it and the problems happened around the time I upgraded to Windows 7, at which point I installed Firefox to my (relatively old) SSD, which was problematic in the past for Firefox. I'm going to reinstall it to my HDD as I had it previously and see if that fixes the problem.