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Firefox randomly crashes NVIDIA 230M driver

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I am truly exasperated with these crashes, which now happen twice or three times per session (I am using a Vaio laptop with the latest NVIDIA driver for my 230M chipset).

This is how I have proceeded, so far with no effect.

1) I altered the Nvidia Power Management setting to 'Prefer Maximum Performance', as advised on other threads. No change. 2) I deleted my entire profile (including settings) and reinstalled FF14. No change. 3) I deleted FF14 and re-installed FF13. No change. 4) My next step will be to repeat step 2 for FF13.

This is even worse than the video problems with Flash a month or two ago. I am seriously considering junking Firefox after many years of happy travelling. The thought of going over to Chrome fills me with horror, but it may be the only solution.

[Reposted here at the suggestion of john99 in response to my comment at http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/931921

I am truly exasperated with these crashes, which now happen twice or three times per session (I am using a Vaio laptop with the latest NVIDIA driver for my 230M chipset). This is how I have proceeded, so far with no effect. 1) I altered the Nvidia Power Management setting to 'Prefer Maximum Performance', as advised on other threads. No change. 2) I deleted my entire profile (including settings) and reinstalled FF14. No change. 3) I deleted FF14 and re-installed FF13. No change. 4) My next step will be to repeat step 2 for FF13. This is even worse than the video problems with Flash a month or two ago. I am seriously considering junking Firefox after many years of happy travelling. The thought of going over to Chrome fills me with horror, but it may be the only solution. [Reposted here at the suggestion of john99 in response to my comment at http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/931921

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cor-el
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Does it help if you disable disable hardware acceleration in Firefox?

alexwent
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Certainly that helped when I was running FF13 and had Flash problems a month ago. I would imagine it might help here too. Everything seems incredibly laggy right now. I will take up your suggestion and if there are any further driver crashes I will send in the report.