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Firefox crashes...

I'm not sure if I was the only one experiencing this but when I opened a google maps page my portableapps version of firefox crashes, is anyone else experiencing this?

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Setting or GPU

Working fine here both local and portable. Someone else had an issue with Firefox showing Google Maps upside down and created a new profile to fix it. Turns out it was something in about:config.

I'd suggest trying a fresh separate install and see if the crash happens. If it doesn't, it's something in your main profile, an extension or setting, and you can start eliminating things. If a clean install does crash, it's more than likely your graphics drivers. And Google Maps is the only thing you've done in Firefox that's really making use of hardware acceleration. Be sure to update your drivers. If it still fails, disable hardware acceleration in Firefox for now and report the issue. Your drivers may be buggy and Mozilla may have to add them to the driver blacklist where Firefox automatically disables hardware acceleration because they're too buggy to trust.

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I guess my situation is a bit

I guess my situation is a bit more odd. On the portable version from portableapps it just crashes when loading any map. On local it prompts there was an error and to reload the map but it doesn't crash, yet when using chrome I get no errors...

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Chrome Doesn't Matter

It doesn't matter whether it works on other browsers as they all use the GPU differently. For Firefox, it can easily crash on local but not portable or vice versa due to the extensions and settings in one versus the other.

Again, try a fresh portable install just to your local desktop to start with. That eliminates any settings or drive issues.

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It appears that disabling

It appears that disabling hardware acceleration fixed things up. Sad thing is when the browser would crash it wouldn't send the report so how do I go about reporting this issue? As the browser only crashed on the portable version and when "filling out what happened and on what site in the report box" it would say that the report didn't go through. When using a local version of firefox it just asked me to reload google maps and things were fine temporarily and there was no crash report generated.

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Just tried a fresh install of

Just tried a fresh install of Firefox on a test drive and it also crashed as well, went to check my drivers and based on the OEM they appear to be up-to-date, that is in their terms. I'm running an older model Toshiba laptop that uses a shared GPU sad to say. To be specific its called an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD driver version 8.15.10.1986. Which Toshiba hasn't offered updates to since 2010. I would try the generic Intel update but wouldn't know where to start as there are so many drivers listed an also the intel update utility prompts me to seek updated drivers through my OEM because they're a "special" edition of the driver.

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