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"the firefox application is not allowed to access the graphics hardware"

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liska59
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I would like to ask for help the following phenomenon:

"the firefox application is not allowed to access the graphics hardware"

This error message appears, at times, and then restart the browser once in a while it's all good.Do not use any accessory.Operating system: Win 8.1 64 bit Oh, even so much that the virus and malware search engine does not find anything.

Any idea?Thank you very much.

I would like to ask for help the following phenomenon: "the firefox application is not allowed to access the graphics hardware" This error message appears, at times, and then restart the browser once in a while it's all good.Do not use any accessory.Operating system: Win 8.1 64 bit Oh, even so much that the virus and malware search engine does not find anything. Any idea?Thank you very much.

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guigs
guigs
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Strange, I mostly found this error happening for game software: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1877769/error-program-blocked-accessing-graphics-hardware-update.html


In 8.1 there is a way to block applications from using the graphics hardware acceleration. Opening up the device manager http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows.../device-manager-windows-8.htm