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After upgrade to 38.1.0 Thunderbird will not start - Instacrash. nvwgf2um.dll

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Started Thunderbird, Said restart was needed for new version, let it do that, instacrash. On Starting Thunderbird, Window will mail appears for split-second, then crash.

Things I have tried: Uninstalled and installed to previous released. Instacrash. Uninstall and Installed 40.0b1. Instacrash Backed-up and removed Profile and entire appdata folder structure. Instacrash. Removed Mozilla Framework plugins. ( AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\plugins ) Instacrash

Some Crash ID's:

Crash ID: bp-32e7a426-112d-4888-8348-ef5192150729 Crash ID: bp-84c66649-47fe-4524-953b-cec2d2150729 Crash ID: bp-ac9f8902-0f10-495a-be76-4ecc82150729 Crash ID: bp-ba1ad999-c471-4d7f-b59f-d5d0c2150729 Crash ID: bp-e3a34f7a-2af8-493e-a0bf-a64f82150729

Started Thunderbird, Said restart was needed for new version, let it do that, instacrash. On Starting Thunderbird, Window will mail appears for split-second, then crash. Things I have tried: Uninstalled and installed to previous released. Instacrash. Uninstall and Installed 40.0b1. Instacrash Backed-up and removed Profile and entire appdata folder structure. Instacrash. Removed Mozilla Framework plugins. ( AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\plugins ) Instacrash Some Crash ID's: Crash ID: bp-32e7a426-112d-4888-8348-ef5192150729 Crash ID: bp-84c66649-47fe-4524-953b-cec2d2150729 Crash ID: bp-ac9f8902-0f10-495a-be76-4ecc82150729 Crash ID: bp-ba1ad999-c471-4d7f-b59f-d5d0c2150729 Crash ID: bp-e3a34f7a-2af8-493e-a0bf-a64f82150729

Modified by Wayne Mery

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Thanks for your diligent testing, and complete report.

This is a crash in the NVIDIA device driver. Does the crashing stop if you disable hardware acceleration at tools | options | advanced | general ??

Please post the contents of the graphics section of help | Troubleshooting. And, are you at the newest version of driver for your graphics card?

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I am not able to get into tools | options | advanced | general, because it Instacrashes the moment I try to start.

Is there an alternative way I can disable this setting?

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To my surprise, the issue resolved itself.

The only difference has been that I put the laptop into standby, traveled to a different location, and turned it back on again. Thunderbird just started without a problem, without even using safemode.

earlier, when i was troubleshooting the issue and installing/reinstalling, I also restarted the laptop several times, yet at the time, this made no difference to the crashing behavior.