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FireFox 4 Causing Desktop Windows Manager to crash

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On two separate computers with multiple monitors it seems that when I open an second browsing Window on one of the other monitors I will get a warning under Windows 7 saying that video memory is low and color scheme will be reverted to Windows Basic.

This is under Windows 7 on both computers and both have fairly powerful video cards with one being a Radeon 4550HD and the othre being a Radeon 5770HD. I have the latest driver package running and this type of crash does not happen with Internet Explorer 8 or 9 or any other application on the computer.

The only common item both these computers have installed besides the Windows version and browser options is I have a desktop manager application called UltraMon installed and I am wondering if it is related to that. I am looking into a way to test this with UltraMon disabled to see if that is the common factor. Still doesn't change the fact that it only happens with Firefox.

On two separate computers with multiple monitors it seems that when I open an second browsing Window on one of the other monitors I will get a warning under Windows 7 saying that video memory is low and color scheme will be reverted to Windows Basic. This is under Windows 7 on both computers and both have fairly powerful video cards with one being a Radeon 4550HD and the othre being a Radeon 5770HD. I have the latest driver package running and this type of crash does not happen with Internet Explorer 8 or 9 or any other application on the computer. The only common item both these computers have installed besides the Windows version and browser options is I have a desktop manager application called UltraMon installed and I am wondering if it is related to that. I am looking into a way to test this with UltraMon disabled to see if that is the common factor. Still doesn't change the fact that it only happens with Firefox.

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I just received this problem with windows 7 x64 sp1+updates with no 3rd party desktop manager - just the windows 7 standard aero interface.