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Firefox crashed on vimeo.com

IgorBrn

ID: 130e46a3-ae94-4019-bac8-b81612140512 Firefox crashed allways on vimeo.com or when any site have a video from vimeo.com. Last update is in installed. What is the problem?

ID: 130e46a3-ae94-4019-bac8-b81612140512 Firefox crashed allways on vimeo.com or when any site have a video from vimeo.com. Last update is in installed. What is the problem?

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Crashes or other problems with certain multimedia content in Firefox (such as Youtube videos and Flash animations or games) can often be resolved by performing the steps in these Knowledge Base articles:

On Windows Vista and above, you can disable Flash protected mode by following the instructions on these pages:

(See this Adobe blog post for technical details about Flash protected mode.)

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Chosen Solution

You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox (you need to close and restart Firefox).

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

That has helped. Thank you!