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firefox crashes in safe mode

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Firefox updated to a new version (firefox.exe is 16.0.2, but dated 11/12/2012, today is 11/29/2012) and now crashes in normal,safe and -profile mode. I have many crash dump ID's, i've put the most recent two into the Troubleshooting information.

Firefox updated to a new version (firefox.exe is 16.0.2, but dated 11/12/2012, today is 11/29/2012) and now crashes in normal,safe and -profile mode. I have many crash dump ID's, i've put the most recent two into the Troubleshooting information.

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Update Firefox to 17.0.1 (releasing later today) Update Firefox to the latest release

Then try to retest.

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Chosen Solution

Update Firefox to 17.0.1 (releasing later today) Update Firefox to the latest release

Then try to retest.

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Disable hardware acceleration.... Intructions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forum-response-disable-hardware-acceleration

Bug info here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700840 <p> From that page: "The user disabled the Hardware Acceleration in Firefox and the issue seemed to be gone. His computer has Nvidia SLI technology (Q6600, Win 7 x64 and SLI of GTX460), surely the culprit..."

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That bug is totally different than the crash ID's the user gave. Disabling Hardware Acceleration may be useful, but that bug report is wrong.

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Ofcourse the crash ID is different What do you mean the bug report is wrong? Same crash reason, same operating system.

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Newest version fixed the issue. Thanks!