Actually... NoScript and AdBlock will keep your FF (and your computer) from getting in harm's way instead of throwing them into the fray and patching them up later on.
It is much, much more effective and much, much safer that way.
BTW, you can never be sure that it is not some kind of malware which is causing your problem if you are part of the vast majority of the web population who visit Facebook daily and don't block the ads. In the short year I've been on Facebook regularly, I must have heard a dozain different ad strikes which really pissed off a lot of users and damaged their software in some way or another (the usual is to have your browser randomly redirect you to publicity sites).
The only real protection you can have against that is not to visit the site in question or load the publicity altogether. This is why browsers now have the "untrusted sites" option now, which ask you if you really want to go visit really untrusted sites... Which basically do the same thing than AdBlock and NoScript: prevent what you don't want to run in your computer to get there in the first place.
Note for AdBlock: you will probably need to block everything manually at first. But as you block more and more ad sites directly at the source, there will come a time when you will barely see them at all anymore. There even come times when I get surprised to see a big chunk of stupid publicity appear in front of me when I visit new sites... I always think that the site looks so much better when they are gone.
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