Mozilla Firefox having java trouble

Firefox slows, hangs and crashes after the slightest signs of java (which means no yahoo pool for me on firefox)
Firefox V0.8
Java: J2RE 1.4.2_01
Win Xp 5.1.2600

Java works well enough on IE and Yahoo Messenger. dunno wasssup.
additionally, all menus in windows environment start to flicker uncontrollably whenever Java's loaded in any form.

 

Have latest Java. Will get firefox. Anyone else reported this trouble??

 

Are you using any other extensions? Please list them. Adblock has being known to cause trouble for example.

 

Yes... alotta extensions incl.
AdBlock, Spoofstick, TinyURL (which I've never used), and some others that I seem to forget...
I think I'll disable AdBlock and see what happens.
Is their a way to see what extensions I'd installed (it was a mad frenzy... the more I saw the more I installed...I know its kinda stupid to install things without thinking... but I went crazy back then)

 

click tools then extensions and it should list the extensions you have downloaded.

 

Sorry.. extensions submenu's not there

Edit: found it in Options.
Here they are
MAF -----------> save web page to a single file
Adblock --------->identified above
Allow Right-Click 0.1
Bandwidth Tester 0.3
BugMeNot 0.3 -----------> hardly useful
User Agent Switcher 0.4
Jump Link v1.2
SpoofStick for Mozilla Firefox, v. 1.02
TinyUrl Creator 0.6 -------> i use bookmarks..don't know why I'd bothered
DownloadWith v0.0.7 ---->extremely useful

 

Mine were under tools extensions

 

Mybe Its difference in version (or Maybe its your amazing skinned interface!!! - is it Mac skin?)

 

it is the Noia Extreme skin. firefox ver. 1.0

 

Firefox v0.8 here
So, adblock should be killed then? It's really froody and I don't wanna lose it.

 

Have you confirmed that Adblock is the source of the problem? Disable it, restart firefox and see if you have the same problem.

If it is a adblock problem, you can try to update to a newer adblock version and more importantly check the version of your Java. I have read that some people have solved the problem by updating java.

 

Thanks a bunch...
But right now... it's kinda hard to update java (it costs 15Megs... and my current plan is charged by the MB)
So I'll do that later.