Why does the GUI crash after extended use?
I recently upgraded to a new PC and I'm running version 43.0.4 and since upgrading have had a lot of issues with the firefox's gui kinda crashing on me. I say kinda because it's still there and functional (if I can guess where to click) but objects including the any webpage content, tabs, url bar, bookmarks, etc will start to go nuts. I've attached a picture of the most recent incident. As it happens this is the cleanest occurence because everuthing has gone blank where as usually it will start to act out by button (eg. bookmarks) dissapearing as I hover over them. The are two things that seem to be related to these symptoms. 1) everytime it has happened I have had around 10 or slightly more tabs open. 2) firefox hasn't been closed fully since before atleast one instance of putting the PC to sleep rather than shutting down.
Chosen solution
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver and check for hardware acceleration related issues.
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Chosen Solution
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver and check for hardware acceleration related issues.
Will try disabling hardware acceleration and report back in a couple of days.
Seems to work fine without hardware acceleration. Surprised that it is an issue given my pc specs. unless the way FF uses hardware acceleration is a bit on the iffy side.