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Crashing on youtube after update

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  • آخر ردّ كتبه Kiwi81

After updating to 56.0, firefox is often crashing when watching videos on youtube (might not be website related- crashed on other sites when watching videos as well)

After updating to 56.0, firefox is often crashing when watching videos on youtube (might not be website related- crashed on other sites when watching videos as well)

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if the affected device is a notebook, could you look on the manufacturer's homepage if they offer e newer graphics driver for that model?

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hello, could you provide your latest few submitted crash reports? please enter about:crashes into the location bar, copy the latest few submitted report ids from there starting with bp-, paste them here into a forum reply. this will give us a better understanding what may be triggering those crashes.

thanks, can you always reproduce this while you're on youtube or does it happen intermittently?

i would say intermittently, usually when i watch longer videos- just now it crashed at 7-8th minute of a video, but afterwards i watched a 2-3min video and it didnt crash. but it did crash on 2 out of 3 videos today.

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if the affected device is a notebook, could you look on the manufacturer's homepage if they offer e newer graphics driver for that model?

No, it happens on my laptop, and only after the latest firefox update. Didnt have any problems before *shrugs*

ok, if there is no graphics driver update available then it should be possible to workaround the crash by disabling hardware acceleration in firefox: Firefox's performance settings

we're looking into the problem in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405110

You can also try to set this pref to false on the about:config page.

  • media.windows-media-foundation.allow-d3d11-dxva

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

im updating my graphics driver, if that does not solve the problem i will try the other suggestions. will let you guys know if it solves the problem or not!

If toggling media.windows-media-foundation.allow-d3d11-dxva then try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.

ah, i think the graphic driver update fixed the crashing problem; thank you very much for your help!

Hi there, I'm having what seems to be the same problem, but I'm not sure how to look for/check the graphic driver which seemed to fix murksiuke's problem. Essentially any time I play a youtube video (on youtube site or a video within another site) the system crashes... The laptop is a Dell Inspiron windows 7 Intel Pentium. Please help? Thanks!