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Why does Firefox crash every time I try to open a second tab in WIndows 10 and how do I fix this?

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Bought new HP laptop running Windows 8.1 - able to use FIrefox just fine as my default browser. Upgraded to WIndows 10 - I have installed/uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox several times, but it continues to crash every time I try to open a second tab.

Bought new HP laptop running Windows 8.1 - able to use FIrefox just fine as my default browser. Upgraded to WIndows 10 - I have installed/uninstalled/reinstalled Firefox several times, but it continues to crash every time I try to open a second tab.

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hello, could you provide your latest few submitted crash reports? please enter about:crashes into the location bar, copy the latest few report ids from there starting with bp- & paste them here into a forum reply. this will give us a better understanding what may be triggering those crashes.