This problem has been occurring rather frequently and is now driving me nuts. Every now and then, and when I have about 5/6 tabs open in IE 7 (7.0.5730.11), IE either crashes or simply hangs.... Is there anything that I can do to permanently fix this problem. I have windows XP SP2 with all the latest updates till now.

Will be very very thankful if you can help me get out of this misery.

P.S.

Don't really want to, but should I dump IE and permanently shift to FireFox? I have hear that it is much better than IE:confused: Can someone, share the URL from where I can download the latest version of FireFox (just in case, I do get fed-up with IE and can not get this problem solved)

Maybe the flash player is the cause. Try to update it.