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(In reply to Cristian Silaghi from comment #15)
> Can you also create a custom preference for all Firefox editions that will allow hardware acceleration with mismatched DLL and registry versions?
Consider that if we added a pref, now unless we uplifted it, that pref would only exist in Nightly until it became Beta and then became Release. In other words, any user who wants to try Firefox without this feature active would need to run Nightly anyway. I'll file a follow-up to review the prevalence of this issue appearing in crash reports, and we'll remove this check entirely if the data supports it. If not, then we'll probably add a pref so users can opt-out, as you suggest.

(In reply to Cristian Silaghi from comment #15)
> Can you also create a custom preference for all Firefox editions that will allow hardware acceleration with mismatched DLL and registry versions?

Consider that if we added a pref, now unless we uplifted it, that pref would only exist in Nightly until it became Beta and then became Release. In other words, any user who wants to try Firefox without this feature active would need to run Nightly anyway. I'll file a follow-up to review the prevalence of this issue appearing in crash reports, and we'll remove this check entirely if the data supports it. If not, then we'll probably add a pref so users can opt-out, as you suggest.