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On 04/28/2016 11:25 AM, Graham Allan wrote:
> After the excitement of seeing firefox 45.1 ESR released for SL, we're
> getting a handful of reports of frequent crashing.
>
> I've had people try the obvious things (disable plugins esp. flash,
> create a new firefox profile, reboot entire workstation) without any
> obvious improvement.
>
> Just wondering if anyone else has seen the same thing. Not seeing
> anything reported in bugzilla, but it's only been ~1 day.
>
> Graham

Hi Graham,

So far mine is well behaved.  But it is still early ...  :'(

Try this:

--> Edit
    --> Preferences
       --> Advanced
          --> General (tab)
             --> disable "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Fixes all kinds of stuff in 38.x.  I just leave it that way now.

-T

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