In the info that came when you posted there was a crash report and it is showing EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT, this is usually associated to Video Card Drivers.

See if you can find updates for your IYour Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 as they are A VERY old : Driver Date: 3-19-2012 You can Google Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 and find the download page https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/81499/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000

Can also try : https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html it should find your Video Card and Your Sound Card and show you drivers for them.

I see a few errors in the drivers so this is possibly a reason your having issues with Firefox 57. Please stay up to date on the drivers after as old & or corrupt drivers can cause a wide range of issues, some hard to identify as the video card being the issue.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration TRY NO HARDWARE ACCELERATION

Your Sandbox is already set and running : Content Process Sandbox Level: 3 Effective Content Process Sandbox Level: 3

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

Hi Pkshadow Thank you so much for your help.

I have upgraded the HD Graphics 4000 drivers as you suggested.

Also i tried to turn off hardware acceleration through options but it would not open. so i use the about:config to set these to true: "gfx.direct2d.disabled" "layers.acceleration.disabled" "media.windows-media-foundation.allow-d3d11-dxva" "webgl.disabled"

However its still the same. when i enter a url into the address bar and press enter nothing happens. Same as when i tried to open a new tab also nothing happens.

Any advice would be much appreciated :)

Have attached latest troubleshooting report: Application Basics

Name: Firefox Version: 57.0 Build ID: 20171112125346 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 OS: Windows_NT 6.1 Multiprocess Windows: 1/1 (Enabled by default) Web Content Processes: 0/4 Stylo: true (enabled by default) Google Key: Found Mozilla Location Service Key: Found Safe Mode: false

Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days

Report ID: bp-babbd49d-6184-4b03-83da-0c7a10171117 Submitted: 32 minutes ago

Report ID: bp-cec279e2-449f-4d96-b6f9-533f31171116 Submitted: 1 day ago

All Crash Reports

Firefox Features

Name: Activity Stream Version: 2017.11.07.1100-7f4e3634 ID: activity-stream@mozilla.org

Name: Application Update Service Helper Version: 2.0 ID: aushelper@mozilla.org

Name: Firefox Screenshots Version: 19.2.0 ID: screenshots@mozilla.org

Name: Follow-on Search Telemetry Version: 0.9.6 ID: followonsearch@mozilla.com

Name: Form Autofill Version: 1.0 ID: formautofill@mozilla.org

Name: Multi-process staged rollout Version: 3.05 ID: e10srollout@mozilla.org

Name: Photon onboarding Version: 1.0 ID: onboarding@mozilla.org

Name: Pocket Version: 1.0.5 ID: firefox@getpocket.com

Name: Shield Recipe Client Version: 76.1 ID: shield-recipe-client@mozilla.org

Name: Web Compat Version: 1.1 ID: webcompat@mozilla.org

Extensions

Name: Ace Stream Web Extension Version: 1.0.2 Enabled: false ID: acewebextension_unlisted@acestream.org

Name: Shopping Assistant Version: 3.2.7 Enabled: false ID: shoppingassist@ookong.com

Graphics

Features Compositing: Basic Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: wheel input enabled; scrollbar drag enabled; keyboard enabled; autoscroll enabled WebGL 1 Driver WSI Info: - WebGL 1 Driver Renderer: WebGL is currently disabled. WebGL 1 Driver Version: - WebGL 1 Driver Extensions: - WebGL 1 Extensions: - WebGL 2 Driver WSI Info: - WebGL 2 Driver Renderer: WebGL is currently disabled. WebGL 2 Driver Version: - WebGL 2 Driver Extensions: - WebGL 2 Extensions: - DirectWrite: true (6.2.9200.22082) GPU #1 Active: Yes Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 Vendor ID: 0x8086 Device ID: 0x0166 Driver Version: 10.18.10.4425 Driver Date: 4-4-2016 Drivers: igdumdim64 igd10iumd64 igd10iumd64 igdumdim32 igd10iumd32 igd10iumd32 Subsys ID: 21fa17aa RAM: Unknown

Diagnostics AzureCanvasAccelerated: 0 AzureCanvasBackend (UI Process): skia AzureContentBackend (UI Process): skia AzureFallbackCanvasBackend (UI Process): cairo GPUProcessPid: 14984 Decision Log HW_COMPOSITING: disabled by user: Disabled by pref D3D11_COMPOSITING: unavailable by default: Hardware compositing is disabled DIRECT2D: unavailable by default: Direct2D requires Direct3D 11 compositing D3D11_HW_ANGLE: unavailable by default: D3D11 compositing is disabled disabled by env: D3D11 compositing is disabled WEBRENDER: opt-in by default: WebRender is an opt-in feature unavailable by runtime: ANGLE is disabled

Media

Audio Backend: wasapi Max Channels: 2 Preferred Channel Layout: stereo Preferred Sample Rate: 48000 Output Devices Name: Group Speakers (Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&06 Speakers (2- Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&02 Speaker/HP (Realtek High Definition Audio): HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0269&SUBSYS_17AA21FA&REV_1002\4&39269019&0&0001 Input Devices Name: Group MIDI (2- Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&02 SPDIF Interface (2- Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&02 SPDIF Interface (Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&06 Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio): HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0269&SUBSYS_17AA21FA&REV_1002\4&39269019&0&0001 MIDI (Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&06 MIDI (Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&06 MIDI (2- Intel WiDi Audio Device): {4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\*IntAudWaveEx\1&79f5d87&0&02

Important Modified Preferences

accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0 browser.cache.disk.capacity: 286720 browser.cache.disk.filesystem_reported: 1 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.frecency_experiment: 1 browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 8 browser.sessionstore.upgradeBackup.latestBuildID: 20171112125346 browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20171112125346 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 57.0 browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2: true browser.urlbar.lastSuggestionsPromptDate: 20171116 browser.urlbar.timesBeforeHidingSuggestionsHint: 0 dom.ipc.processCount.web: 4 extensions.lastAppVersion: 57.0 gfx.crash-guard.d3d11layers.appVersion: 57.0 gfx.crash-guard.d3d11layers.deviceID: 0x0166 gfx.crash-guard.d3d11layers.driverVersion: 8.15.10.2696 gfx.crash-guard.d3d11layers.feature-d2d: true gfx.crash-guard.d3d11layers.feature-d3d11: true gfx.crash-guard.status.d3d11layers: 2 gfx.direct2d.disabled: true layers.acceleration.disabled: true media.gmp-gmpopenh264.abi: x86_64-msvc-x64 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled: false media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastUpdate: 1510815648 media.gmp-gmpopenh264.version: 1.7.1 media.gmp-manager.buildID: 20171112125346 media.gmp-manager.lastCheck: 1510816008 media.gmp-widevinecdm.abi: x86_64-msvc-x64 media.gmp-widevinecdm.enabled: false media.gmp-widevinecdm.lastUpdate: 1510815648 media.gmp-widevinecdm.version: 1.4.8.1008 media.gmp.storage.version.observed: 1 media.hardware-video-decoding.failed: true media.windows-media-foundation.allow-d3d11-dxva: false network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true network.predictor.cleaned-up: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1510817078 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 65320 plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf plugin.state.flash: 0 security.sandbox.content.tempDirSuffix: {139dfb61-0952-46b3-858f-67afa4c3f8cf} services.sync.declinedEngines: storage.vacuum.last.index: 0 storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1510817078 webgl.disabled: true

Important Locked Preferences

Places Database

JavaScript

Incremental GC: true

Accessibility

Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0 Accessible Handler Used: true Accessibility Instantiator:

Library Versions

NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.17 Version in use: 4.17

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.33 Version in use: 3.33

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.33 Version in use: 3.33

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.33 Version in use: 3.33

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.33 Version in use: 3.33

Experimental Features

Sandbox

Content Process Sandbox Level: 3 Effective Content Process Sandbox Level: 3

thanks, one more thing that i have just noticed when looking at your system details - can you please test if the following steps can fix the performance issue you're seeing in firefox 57?: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named accessibility.force_disabled. double-click it, change its value to 1 and restart firefox once.

then please let us know how this goes?

Thanks philipp. i have just tried the accessibility.force_disabled to 1 as suggested. However its still the same.