Firefox causing video driver to stop responding?

I have been using Firefox for over a year now (I know slow to advance), and really enjoy it over IE or Chrome. However, recently I have been getting a "your video driver has stopped responding and has recovered" error where my screen would go blank for a few seconds before the message.

It would only happen while on Windows desktop but never when the system was being taxed (like gaming or encoding).

I thought my video card was going bad, checked for solutions which involved registry changes, reinstalled drivers, etc.

Well for whatever reason I decided to stop using Firefox and see if it was causing issues, and sure enough, ever since I stopped using Firefox the issue stopped. If I use Firefox for any length of time, my system will exhibit the same issue.

Ideas? Thoughts? Anyone have this happen to them?

 

Maybe turn off hardware acceleration? That's the only thing I can think of that's causing your GPU to have issues.

 

Funnily enough (is that a word?), I found another solution to turn performance on maximum for Firefox. But I'll stick with Chrome for now. I kinda like it.

 

Found this but cannot attest to it myself. Good luck.

Nvidia Control Panel -> 3D Settings -> Set PhysX configuration -> Select a Physx processor -> choose your graphics card instead of leaving it on auto-select.

 

Hmm, interesting. Will see if it works.

 

PhysX is for games utilizing it. Firefox won't have any effect with PhysX.

 

I agree. Found something that I, without thinking, thought could help but they don't have anything to do with one another.

But I did have a scanning issue one time and a certain monitor calibration was the problem. Go figure.