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    DELL XPS L702x, nVidia drivers and Firefox Toolbar

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by allidea, Apr 29, 2012.

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    allidea Notebook Enthusiast

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    There was/is an issue that was quite irritating to me and I did a lot of googling to find a solution. After a lot of time spent on-line I've managed to find only one post on this topic, but unfortunately I never managed to find it again. The main point of mentioning this is that I'm not the first nor the only one with this issue which includes L702x, nVidia drivers and Firefox Toolbar. I remember poster got an answer from nVidia's tech support saying its not their drivers fault, but I can only confirm the same thing as poster that they are the reason for this issue to occur.

    Well, what's the point you might ask?

    First of all I'm quite sure this issue is Dell L702x related (or might occur on some other models, I don't know), but since it never occurred on my other laptop Asus N53J with same Firefox configuration and nVidia drivers, I can only conclude it is L702x related. This might just as well be nVidia's GT555M as well, but I haven't gone that far to completely check it out nor I'll do that since I've found a source of this problem.

    The issue is manifested in not being able to use any of pop-up windows like clicking on bookmarks star in URL location bar, or accessing bookmarks. At first I thought this had something to do with Firefox, but accidentally after upgrading to new version of nVidia's drivers I found out that this was not happening anymore. But, be aware this has happened to me periodically which means new version of drivers can bring back this issue. If this happens, my advice to you is just to revert to previous version which caused no problems.

    Anyway I can confirm that current nVidia's drivers version 296.10 is working fine, while previous official version wasn't good for me.

    I hope this will help someone.
     
    allidea, Apr 29, 2012
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