I've been following the forum threads about the site "upgrade" with some trepidation (I remember the fiasco of the last time) and it looks like something major finally bit me.

A few minutes ago, I was browsing the freestuff archive, spotted something I liked the look of, clicked the green Download button and --

Zap. Bye-bye browser, back to desktop. Lost all open tabs and windows.

Tried it again. Zap.

Tried it again, marking the download popup as "don't bother to restore"... it worked and stayed worked.

There's something in that popup window that's actively hostile. I'm not getting any error messages, just pause a second or two then "zap". I've never seen a browser failure like this before. It was all right earlier, I downloaded another freebie yesterday.

Using the current Firefox and Win7 64-bit. If it's any help, the popup that bit me was for the new Black Cat Earrings from Luxxeon.

Have you recently upgraded to Win10? Have you tried clearing your temp files? :)

No Win10 here, and I'm beginning to suspect it's going in a direction where I won't want to install it. And I've never needed to clear temp files before.

I would try to clear your temp files. Many times that will be the cause of an issue because we browse so much stuff and the browser can get kind of junked up. :)

Hmm... curiouser and curiouser. Turns out it wasn't just here, it was any site I tried to download from. And shutting everything down and rebooting cleared the problem. Must have been one of those Heisenbugs in Firefox; as soon as I investigated more closely, it vanished.

Problem not so much "resolved" as "softly and silently vanished away"...

Well I'm glad to hear the issue has been taken care of... its gremlins I tell you! :)