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    FireFox on a x64 machine crashing video

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by PhillyPhoto, Aug 19, 2009.

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    PhillyPhoto Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am running FF on my laptop which has the 64 bit version of Vista with the ATI Radeon Mobility HD 3650 GPU, and sometimes when launching firefox the video driver will crash. Most of the time it will recover, sometimes not. This doesn't happen with every launch, and it's usually when I start it up or take it out of hibernation. Running games like Company of Heros of Men of War which are obviously graphics intensive have no problem.

    I posted a question on Mozilla's forum, but haven't got any response as of yet. So I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar to this. I don't think it's a graphics card problem, since it can handle more intense apps (games, aero, powerdvd etc) without a problem.
     
    PhillyPhoto, Aug 19, 2009
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