Myopia runs rampant through his genes....;)

OK, had another BSOD, and using the WhoCrashed software Jim recommended it showed it being caused by my video drivers. So then I rolled back the drivers and installed the latest drivers from nVidia for my GTX560 cards, turned on SLI, and then re-enabled hardware acceleration in Firefox and IE since that evidently wasn't it. Now we shall wait and see ...

Except I only got them using Firefox watching live streaming video, and got several of them per day.

Watching the same video streaming (from the same streaming sites) on Chrome, I did not incur BSODs.

I also am using Pale Moon x64 . I have Google also but it runs much slower than Pale Moon. Google sometimes does not load web pages correctly, but that is on my system, not everyone has same problem , Firefox in the past crashed quite a few times than I found Pale Moon and it runs flawlessly on my PC , but like I said before not everyone will have the same result on there PC. If your running 64bit you could try these Waterfox, Cyberfox, or maybe Nightly. I have tried them all and they seem to work great with Windows 7 64bit O.S Hope you find the problem alot of times it is something simple at-least in my case .

The firefox media plugins could be making slightly different calls and hitting some bug in the hardware video acceleration. It's impossible to say without actually looking at the BSOD, but the fact remains that FF can't be causing it directly.

side question, help please.

my version of FF has flash disabled. I noticed that in a post above that frankell has flash updated and enabled. How do I update flash so that FF will recognize it. I can't find an update listed within the FF add-ons.

Well Flash is not an Addon but a Plugin

using Firefox you can activate Flash going here (copy and paste in your address bar)

about:addons

then on the left side click on Plugins

to update just click the following link

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

click on update and when in the Adobe page pay attention to uncheck the MCAfee optional offer

As  I did I suggest to create 2 Bookmarks pointing to the 2 links !

I can get that far. Sorry I used the incorrect terms.

In the add-on manager flash it is showing as disabled (ver. 11.5.502.110), clicking on the update button takes me to a notification page that states that flash for certain versions has been disabled and not available. It doesn't provide me with an updated version or link to one.

Maybe a link to the newer FF version?

One thing that has been causing a massive number of Blue screens in Firefox is the newer Nvidia drivers on the 4xx series of cards.

If you have an Nvidia card, reinstall driver ver 314.22. 

Nvidia drivers have been absolutely awful lately on their older cards.

I have the GTX560 cards, installed the latest drivers for them from nVidia and so far so good. (Crosses fingers).

here you go for the newer Firefox 24.0 (official stable version)

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

and the system req. for the last Flash Player 11.9.900.117 are :

Microsoft® Windows®

• Microsoft® Windows® XP (32-bit) Windows Server® 2003 (32-bit) Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) Windows Vista® (32-bit) Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel® Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks
• 128MB of RAM
• 128MB of graphics memory
• Internet Explorer 7.0 and above Mozilla Firefox 4.0 and above Google Chrome Safari 5.0 and above Opera 11

click here to check

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

"LIGHTSTAR" give Ice Dragon a try you,  have security of Comodo and flexibility of fire fox that's my default  browser .

Or pale moon both good browsers.

I now have a great new web browser. Based on Mozilla, faster than Firefox, PaleMoon or IE and can use all Mozilla addons, including ADBlock. You can even scan an entire website with it for malware links or anything else unsafe with Web Inspector (built-in), and it even uses its own secure DNS servers if you elect to use them. The standard interface will work with any WB skin as far as I can tell too. Thank you frankell!

maybe I'm a late ...

but just in case I was going to suggest to install the IceDragon portable version ( so you will never affect the Firefox resident\default )

Portable mode must be selected during the installation process

see here http://help.comodo.com/topic-169-1-413-4903-portable-version.html

If you're talking about IceDragon, it's based on Chrome, Tom...

Nah, I got rid of Firefox and made IceDragon the default, installed it as permanent. I appreciate the info frankell.

Doc, I don't know where you got your info from, but right on it's site it says "Comodo IceDragon is a fast and secure internet browser based on Mozilla Firefox". 

I'm glad you are good with IceDragon !

Does this browser import IE favorites?

definetly yes see >  http://help.comodo.com/topic-169-1-413-4483-Bookmarks---Importing,-Exporting-and-Backing-up.html#import_bookmarks

I'll second frankell said Dave, it does import IE favorites just fine.

Never had a bsod with firefox and it's my default browser now version 25 so as everyone's said run Memtest as i had bad ram and that was the thing that was bsod'ing my PC replaced brand new Corsair vengeance sticks with G-skill ram and all's been fine since!

It turned out to be the video drivers, I rolled them back for my nVidia cards and all has been well since. Going to stick with IceDragon though as there are a few other things I don't like in Firefox that IceDragon does not do.

Has anyone experienced this problem where the up down arrows, instead of scrolling, minimize and maximize a page? It doesn't happen with just Firefox, have this problem with Chrome too. I Googled it and the solution, among others, was to open the run dialogue and type in gpedit.msc...go to...User Configuration, Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Explorer. Find Turn off Windows + X hotkeys. Select edit from the action menu and Enable the feature. This is on Win8. How this happened I have no clue.

Er....it's Win 8 .....;p