Ever since I upgraded to the 4b6 of Firefox, my screen occasionally goes blank for a few seconds and then I get a message telling me that my display driver had stopped working. It ultimately led me to revert back to Firefox 3. An updated beta, the 4b7, was released yesterday and I was optimistic that the problem might have been solved. However to my dismay, the issue remains.
A quick search threw up results of forums where people have complained about the nVidia driver crashing because of Firefox 4. Some suspect it may be because of the Direct2D feature newly implemented in the upcoming Firefox. There were suggestions to update the nVidia graphics driver to solve the problem. But unfortunately, even that does not help.
I think I’ll keep using the beta so long as the crashes are infrequent and Firefox is able to recover from them. Otherwise I will be forced to use the Firefox 3 until a more stable beta has been released.
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