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why firefox black out its screen and stop working, need to shut it down and restart it again.

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i am working on 10 tabs of firefox, suddenly all tabs get blacks out and crashed the session, firefox shuts down.

need to restart it again then it restore all recent tabs. but its very frustrating every time, please help me with that

thank you

i am working on 10 tabs of firefox, suddenly all tabs get blacks out and crashed the session, firefox shuts down. need to restart it again then it restore all recent tabs. but its very frustrating every time, please help me with that thank you

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hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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thanks, have you disabled hardware acceleration in the firefox menu ≡ > options > advanced > general panel on purpose? and could you also enter about:crashes into the address bar and copy/paste the last few crash reports starting with bp- here into a reply in the forum?

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Yes, i have already disabled hardware acceleration in firefox. find attached snapshot of about crashes in mozilla