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Why does firefox 7 crashes the system if Quadro NVS 135M graphics driver is installed?

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MingTea
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Why does firefox 7 crashes the system with a Quadro NVS 135M graphics cards installed?

It happens immediately after opening Firefox on a two screen system. You get a message saying the Graphics Driver stopped responding, but that it managed to recover, but after a while the system freezes completely. You can't even CTRL+ALT+DEL.

Why does firefox 7 crashes the system with a Quadro NVS 135M graphics cards installed? It happens immediately after opening Firefox on a two screen system. You get a message saying the Graphics Driver stopped responding, but that it managed to recover, but after a while the system freezes completely. You can't even CTRL+ALT+DEL.

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the-edmeister
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Options > Advanced -> General - Browsing
Try disabling Use hardware acceleration when available
Restart Firefox.

KeithInMB
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I get this too on with my nVidia GTX460 card. In my case the screen goes black. It happens once every few days, and for a while I could not figure out why. I was forcing a shutdown to get the screen back.

But I put the computer to sleep and woke it up, since that restarts the video, and this let me see what was wrong. The only error message is it reports that Firefox hung. There is nothing else in the Event logs.

I'm running Windows 7 with all the updates from Windows Update, and my video driver is 285.62, but his also happened with the 260.26 driver.

I imagine this is happening a lot, but people aren't able to isolate the cause.

I'm looking for a fix, not a bypass.