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How can I go back to firefox 22?

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LeSkid
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Firefox updated itself to 23 a week ago and I can't take it anymore. Crashing, BSODs, only when I'm browsing and only in FF - IE is fine but I hate IE.

I've read some in the support forums and I don't want to deactivate flash, hw acceleration... I shouldn't have to alter my default HW settings to make it so a browser doesn't crash my PC

It always ran fine on 22. So how can I just go back to 22 and NOT have firefox update itself without asking me?

heh... it's happened so often that now, when my screen starts flashing on & off (the sign of an impending BSOD), I ctrl+alt+del to start task manager as fast as I can and kill firefox. Only way to prevent a BSOD.

Firefox updated itself to 23 a week ago and I can't take it anymore. Crashing, BSODs, only when I'm browsing and only in FF - IE is fine but I hate IE. I've read some in the support forums and I don't want to deactivate flash, hw acceleration... I shouldn't have to alter my default HW settings to make it so a browser doesn't crash my PC It always ran fine on 22. So how can I just go back to 22 and NOT have firefox update itself without asking me? heh... it's happened so often that now, when my screen starts flashing on & off (the sign of an impending BSOD), I ctrl+alt+del to start task manager as fast as I can and kill firefox. Only way to prevent a BSOD.

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kobe
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For now you can revert back to fx 22, but also consider that firefox is updating to firefox 23.0.1 that fixes many crashes.

see: Install an older version of Firefox

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Disabling Firefox's use of hardware acceleration doesn't affect any other applications. It may be needed in Firefox 22 as well, if an update to your graphics card drivers exposed a preexisting incompatibility in Firefox...

In case you need this:

orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Options > Advanced

On the "General" mini-tab, uncheck the box for "Use hardware acceleration when available"

It will take effect after you restart Firefox.

LeSkid
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Thank you both for your replies.

This PITA prompted me to finally throw in a SSD and start anew with a fresh install of win7x64, all windows and driver updates completed.

I just reinstalled FF23 and have disabled the HW acceleration as per your suggestion. I've been online for a 1/2hr now without issue so I'm optimistic.

Thanks again!

Andre in Montréal