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Firefox crashes when viewing a video on the youtube website

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I have tried refreshing my browser, uninstalling my add-ons, making sure all plugins are reinstalled and updated, refreshed firefox (as in the browser, not just refreshing the page lol), disabled hardware acceleration, but nothing works and my problem only happens in firefox.

This started when I upgraded to windows 10 almost a week ago and there's something weird about the problem. It only crashes my browser if i am viewing the video on the youtube site itself. I can watch a youtube video just fine when it is embedded on any other site. this is super annoying and i'd like to stay on firefox instead of migrating all my stuff over to another browser. any ideas??

I have tried refreshing my browser, uninstalling my add-ons, making sure all plugins are reinstalled and updated, refreshed firefox (as in the browser, not just refreshing the page lol), disabled hardware acceleration, but nothing works and my problem only happens in firefox. This started when I upgraded to windows 10 almost a week ago and there's something weird about the problem. It only crashes my browser if i am viewing the video on the youtube site itself. I can watch a youtube video just fine when it is embedded on any other site. this is super annoying and i'd like to stay on firefox instead of migrating all my stuff over to another browser. any ideas??

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hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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Application Basics


Name: Firefox Version: 40.0.3 Build ID: 20150826023504 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (default: false)

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Name: Adblock Plus Version: 2.6.10 Enabled: true ID: {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}

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Adapter Description: AMD Radeon HD 7560D Adapter Drivers: aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 amdxc64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 amdxc32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64 Adapter RAM: 768 Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none Device ID: 0x9904 Direct2D Enabled: true DirectWrite Enabled: true (10.0.10240.16430) Driver Date: 7-15-2015 Driver Version: 15.200.1060.0 GPU #2 Active: false GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 Direct3D 11 (OMTC) Subsys ID: 2ae0103c Supports Hardware H264 Decoding: true Vendor ID: 0x1002 WebGL Renderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (AMD Radeon HD 7560D Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0) windowLayerManagerRemote: true AzureCanvasBackend: direct2d 1.1 AzureContentBackend: direct2d 1.1 AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0

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Incremental GC: true

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Activated: true Prevent Accessibility: 0

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NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.8 Version in use: 4.10.8

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can you please try it with the amd 15.8 catalyst driver - it also contains some crash fixes for firefox on windows 10: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

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I correctly removed the driver and then installed the one you provided but i still seem to have the problem

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still unsolved