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firefox causes my mac to freeze and lock up forcing a hard shutdown

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Mac running 10.6.8 Firfox hangs and causes all other open programs to hang. Cursor disappears and requires a force shutdown of computer. On restart no crash report appears.

Mac running 10.6.8 Firfox hangs and causes all other open programs to hang. Cursor disappears and requires a force shutdown of computer. On restart no crash report appears.

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We're sorry to hear that your Firefox seems to be crashing. Please perform the following steps to give us a crash report ID that helps us find out more about the cause of the crash.

  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox location bar (that's where you enter your website names) and press Enter. You should now see a list of submitted crash reports.
  2. Copy the most recent 5 report IDs that you see in the crash report window and paste them into your forum response.

Thanks in advance for your help!

More information and further troubleshooting steps can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.

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BE3BBC15-CA64-4A36-B053-A568A067C6C86/9/127:01 AM0B5F33AC-488F-4FC3-84AF-684AEEC802E46/5/127:53 PMB5898BBE-BE89-43C2-8504-0CCA1EBAE6F95/18/128:41 PM6D3102EC-1208-4370-A46F-466A65E3AF285/18/128:41 PM3E938D62-672E-4500-994E-4F9232718D4A5/18/128:40 PM

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In order to be able to find the correct solution to your problem, we require some more non-personal information from you. Please do the following:

  • Click the Firefox button at the top left, then click the Help menu and select Troubleshooting information from the submenu. If you don't have a Firefox button, click the Help menu at the top and select Troubleshooting information from the menu.

Now, a new tab containing your troubleshooting information should open.

  • At the top of the page, you should see a button that says "Copy all to clipboard. Click it.
  • Now, go back to your forum post and click inside the reply box. Press Ctrl+V to paste all the information you copied into the forum post.

If you need further information about the Troubleshooting information page, please read the article Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Application Basics

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       0. Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
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       Expected minimum version
       Version in use
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