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Screen turns black then crash

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Occasionally when I go to webpages the entire page will turn black. This most often occurs when scrolling, but can also happen when loading a page or even randomly. Usually, but not always, more scrolling fixes it. shortly after getting these problems Firefox will often crash.

Occasionally when I go to webpages the entire page will turn black. This most often occurs when scrolling, but can also happen when loading a page or even randomly. Usually, but not always, more scrolling fixes it. shortly after getting these problems Firefox will often crash.

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Your crash reports all have different signatures but the System Memory Use Percentage in the crash reports is rather high, so this could be out-of-memory crashes.

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You said that Firefox is crashing. Please follow the steps below to provide us crash IDs to help us learn more about your crash.

  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A Submitted Crash Reports list will appear, similar to the one shown below.
  2. Copy the 5 most recent Report IDs that start with bp- and then go back to your forum question and paste that into the "Post a Reply" box.

SubmittedCrashReports-Win7

Thank you 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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This may also be caused by add block plus. After you paste the crash reports we can take a look further as well. Thank you.

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Having this issue too. Most recently I was reading wikipedia and I thought that page caused the issue but when I switchd tabs it was happening there too. I dont crash though. The issue disappaered after a few minutes but it happens several times a day

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bp-6001f599-8eaf-43c2-a959-5e7962140515 5/14/2014 7:34 PM
bp-d0a915ff-2151-4f05-b6d7-1ae792140514 5/13/2014 9:28 PM
bp-4bc5588c-1d4e-4a63-a088-9bc4c2140513 5/12/2014 7:50 PM
bp-afac4dbf-5928-459b-abbb-265462140511 5/11/2014 11:38 AM
bp-f5c726b3-0988-4026-881b-848122140507 5/6/2014 8:48 PM

Modified by cor-el

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Your crash reports all have different signatures but the System Memory Use Percentage in the crash reports is rather high, so this could be out-of-memory crashes.

See also:

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That would probably because I have a bad habit of not closing tabs... I have maybe 600 open right now, although tabs don't load until they are selected Firefox is currently using 2.5GB of RAM. I should get to closing them...

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quadrplax

Oh, man...:P Did it help when you closed down some of those tabs, maybe 300? Geez, how do you get that high number of tabs? I can barely do 10

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I was going to submit a crash report but the latest ones showing up are from April despite it actually crashing like 4 times this month