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Whats making animated images flash green, then freeze and crash firefox?

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Sablemint
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So in the last couple days ive had this happen a few times. an animated image on a page, not a Flash one just a png or gif or something, would stop moving and the browser would become unresponsive. And then that image would start flashing green rapidly. after a while of this the entire browser would crash. The errors it gives me are the standard ones for generic "There was a problem" crashes. Also the plugin container would crash too.

The green color was interesting, because ive seen it before. Its the same green color that would show up if I combined multiple video files into one using DOS, for a brief moment between when one clip ended and the next began.

I did try to refresh firefox after this happened the first time. Refresh went through, but didnt solve the problem.

So in the last couple days ive had this happen a few times. an animated image on a page, not a Flash one just a png or gif or something, would stop moving and the browser would become unresponsive. And then that image would start flashing green rapidly. after a while of this the entire browser would crash. The errors it gives me are the standard ones for generic "There was a problem" crashes. Also the plugin container would crash too. The green color was interesting, because ive seen it before. Its the same green color that would show up if I combined multiple video files into one using DOS, for a brief moment between when one clip ended and the next began. I did try to refresh firefox after this happened the first time. Refresh went through, but didnt solve the problem.

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cor-el
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You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

  • Options/Preferences -> 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.