Firefox and Nvidea graphics drivers crash simultaneously.
This occurs rarely, usually on Facebook however I think this is just because it's a page I'm often on and that overall the site has no bearing on this.
Sometimes both my graphics drivers and Firefox will crash resulting in no input on my monitor for a few seconds and a Mozilla crash dialog and little task bar balloon telling me my drivers have crashed and recovered.
Whilst this doesn't happen often I'm still curious as to why Firefox crashes my graphics drivers sometimes yet I have played many strenuous games and never experienced a single crash.
Graphics card is an Nvidea GTX 460 and the drivers version in DXdiag is 8.17.12.8562 and in the popup bubble something along the lines of 285.2, I'm not really sure on the latter because it goes away quickly.
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Also occurs on my machine. Usually the crashes just cause my screens to flicker several times, but sometimes it forces me to hard reset my computer because it doesn't recover.
Using 2 GTX460 's SLI. Windows7 64Bit. Latest version of Firefox, and the crashes have been happening for months with several previous versions of firefox as well. Also, latest stable nividia drivers.
And come to think of it, I think the crashes started when I installed my second graphics card.
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Upgrade your browser to Firefox 9 and check
I'll upgrade but it's a hard thing to check, this doesn't really happen often. once every day or so.
Upgraded to 9 just after the reply there, I just now had a display driver crash whilst typing something into the Youtube search.
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Also occurs on my machine. Usually the crashes just cause my screens to flicker several times, but sometimes it forces me to hard reset my computer because it doesn't recover.
Using 2 GTX460 's SLI. Windows7 64Bit. Latest version of Firefox, and the crashes have been happening for months with several previous versions of firefox as well. Also, latest stable nividia drivers.
And come to think of it, I think the crashes started when I installed my second graphics card.
You can also check the Graphics section on the Help > Troubleshooting Information
In Firefox 4 and later Safe mode disables extensions and disables hardware acceleration.
Try to disable hardware acceleration.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.