620944 - Firefox 4 seems to have a conflict with my NVIDIA drivers on my HP Laptop. The screen will go black and then come back with an error message stating that an unexpected error in video driver.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Inman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
Build Identifier: Firefox 4 build 7

While browsing using Firefox 4 beta 7 The screen will go black and then come back with an error message stating that an unexpected error in video driver.   This only happens in this version of Firefox. The occurrence seems to be at random times in browsing.    

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Please test again with Beta 8 or a recent Nightly Build (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) and report back here with your Graphics Info from about:support if it's still an Issue.

Also update your Graphics Driver (via HP or NVidia).

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Richard...
> Please test again with Beta 8 or a recent Nightly Build
> (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) and report back here with your Graphics Info from
> about:support if it's still an Issue.
> 
> Also update your Graphics Driver (via HP or NVidia).

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

No response from Reporter.