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Applications have been blocked from accessing graphics hardware

Ever since the last Firefox update, the app has been crashing and giving me this message: "Applications have been blocked from accessing graphics hardware". Anybody know what is causing this?

Ever since the last Firefox update, the app has been crashing and giving me this message: "Applications have been blocked from accessing graphics hardware". Anybody know what is causing this?
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Hi robadelman10, I've seen two other questions but haven't had a chance to follow through on them -

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1384998 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1384766