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My tabs are repeatedly crashing and I'm not sure why. I am able to watch videos, such as on Youtube and Mubi, but any other web pages I click into crash immediately. In the recent past, I have had the occasional tab crash, but no problems reloading. This evening the reload merely yields another immediate crash. Many thanks for any help you can give me.

My tabs are repeatedly crashing and I'm not sure why. I am able to watch videos, such as on Youtube and Mubi, but any other web pages I click into crash immediately. In the recent past, I have had the occasional tab crash, but no problems reloading. This evening the reload merely yields another immediate crash. Many thanks for any help you can give me.

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Hello,

Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration in Firefox. Since this feature was added to Firefox it has gradually improved but there are still a few glitches.

You will need to restart Firefox for this to take effect so save all work first (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.,) and then perform these steps:

In Firefox 54 and below:

  1. Click the menu button New Fx Menu and select Options (Windows) or Preferences (Mac, Linux).
  2. Select the Advanced panel and the General tab.
  3. Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available.
  4. Close Firefox completely and then restart Firefox to see if the problem persists.

In Firefox 55 and above:

  1. Click the menu button New Fx Menu and select Options (Windows) or Preferences (Mac, Linux).
  2. Select the General panel.
  3. Under Performance, uncheck Use recommended performance settings. Additional settings will be displayed.
    Fx55Performance-disableHWA
  4. Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available.
  5. Close Firefox completely and then restart Firefox to see if the problem persists.

Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!

If the problem is resolved, you should check for updates for your graphics driver by following the steps mentioned in these Knowledge base articles:

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Thankyou for your advice, but I'm afraid this did not help. I'm using Firefox 62.02. I feel that removing the latest update might be the key, but I'm not sure how to do that...

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In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>. Note: If any reports do not have BP- in front of the numbers/letters, click it to submit them.

The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.

Using your mouse, mark the most recent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box and paste them in.

aboutcrashesFx57

For more help on crash reports, see; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-asking-support

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Thankyou. Crash reports as follows:

bp-a769b73a-b6f9-405a-8003-2c9350180929 29/09/2018 22:03 bp-cb33682d-0a1d-40b5-9a10-271f60180929 29/09/2018 22:02 bp-50b8565e-1012-41c0-a118-ee4760180929 29/09/2018 22:02 bp-a653305a-b10b-4d22-8ffc-3b7a50180929 29/09/2018 22:02 bp-73d06ef3-8ae2-4988-92c3-ffd270180929 29/09/2018 22:02 bp-0704b4bc-709d-43b1-b689-fd3400180929 29/09/2018 22:01 bp-2b8b637d-31a7-4bb8-97f7-db6730180929 29/09/2018 22:01 bp-ab45c320-7bcc-4ca8-930b-652a40180929 29/09/2018 22:01 bp-41a98546-2414-4f60-be03-66fe90180929 29/09/2018 22:00 bp-be647437-e3b0-4afc-abac-854720180927 27/09/2018 22:48

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Let’s do a full clean re-install;

Download Firefox For All languages And Systems {web link}

Save the file. Then Close Firefox.

Using your file browser, open the Programs Folder on your computer.

Windows: C:\Program Files C:\Program Files (x86)

Mac: Open the "Applications" folder. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-download-and-install-firefox-mac

Linux: Check your user manual. If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it. See Install Firefox on Linux; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux

If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder Firefox in your home directory. http://www.mozilla.org/firefox#desktop ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Look for, and remove any Mozilla or Firefox program folders. Do not remove the Mozilla Thunderbird folder if there is one.

Do Not remove any profile folders.

After rebooting the computer, run a registry scanner if you have one. Then run the installer. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If there is a problem, start your Computer in safe mode and try again.

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Linux+Safe+Mode This shows how to Start all Computers in Safe Mode; Free Online Encyclopedia