• FF 52.8 v 52.9 /hardware acceleration OFF

    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Ed Vance on Wed Apr 22 22:26:50 2020
    On 4/21/2020 4:34 PM, between "Ed Vance : August Abolins":

    I got ESR 52.9.0 after I clicked the Help tab and then click
    the About Firefox option and clicked the Button to check for
    Updates a VERY LONG time ago.

    I'll stick with 52.8. There was probably a good reason why I still have 52.8


    Firefox often Crashes on me and what I was doing vanishes
    from the screen and the Mozilla Crash Reporter window comes
    on the screen. I just click to tell it to Restart Firefox
    again.

    For me, that happens more often on my Win7 pc and the newest FF. I don't remember the last time FF 52.8 on XP crashed on me.


    Many Times - Because I have Many Tabs opened - Firefox will
    be real slow loading pages.

    How many is many? It may be prudent to keep that number lower.


    Lately I have been clicking the Crash Reporter button to see
    the Details of the Crash and then I Click in that area and
    press Alt - A and then Alt - C to Copy what's in there.

    I have looked at those text files some but haven't been able
    to learn what caused the Crash from reading what I saved.

    I don't bother going that far. So far, most sites are cooperating well.


    I'm a Man not a Cat, so curiosity can't kill me from trying
    to understand what's what in this here computer.

    One thing I learned that would cause a problem was allowing FF to use hardware acceleration.

    Since turning it off, FF 52.8 has been a fine performer.

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