Hello,

Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration. Since this feature was added to Firefox, it has gradually improved, but there still are a few glitches.

You might need to restart Firefox in order for this to take effect, so save all work first (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.).

Then perform these steps:

1. Open Firefox Options window (Preferences on Mac or Linux) as follows:
   • In Firefox 29.0 and above, click the menu button and select Options for Windows or Preferences on Mac or Linux.
   • In Firefox 28.0 and previous versions, click the orange Firefox button at the top left, then select the "Options" button, or, if there is no Firefox button at the top, go to Tools > Options.
2. In the Firefox Options (or Preferences) window, click the Advanced tab, then select General.
3. In the settings list, you should find the Use hardware acceleration when available checkbox. Uncheck this checkbox.
4. Now, restart Firefox and see if the problems persist.

Additionally, please check for updates for your graphics driver by following the steps mentioned in the following Knowledge base articles:

• Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems

• Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL

Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!

Thank you.

I Note Bug filed by deb.bhattacharya6, and dealt with by bsmedberg

• Bug 1010493 - Startup crash in dgapi.dll (Digital Guardian)
• bp-814ff36a-6efb-471a-91af-4c2ba2140514
  Crash Signature: dgapi.dll@0x92d5d

hello deborah, the crash in the report id that you've provided is apparently caused by a software named "Digital Guardian" by Verdasys which is interfering with firefox.

No, that did not fix the problem as the problem is that I cannot even get Firefox to launch so how could I possibly get to the options menu within?

If there is another way to perform this then please share.

This is what happens when I try to open FF: AdapterDeviceID: 0x0102 AdapterVendorID: 0x8086 Add-ons: %7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D:29.0.1,%7Bfa95f577-07cb-4470-ac90-e843f5f83c52%7D:9.5.5 AvailablePageFile: 11075878912 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 3056111616 AvailableVirtualMemory: 3920785408 BIOS_Manufacturer: Dell Inc. BlockedDllList: BreakpadReserveAddress: 77725696 BreakpadReserveSize: 37748736 BuildID: 20140506152807 CrashTime: 1400097553 EMCheckCompatibility: true FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000 FramePoisonSize: 65536 InstallTime: 1399980294 Notes: AdapterVendorID: 0x8086, AdapterDeviceID: 0x0102, AdapterSubsysID: 04ad1028, AdapterDriverVersion: 9.17.10.3040 Has dual GPUs. GPU #2: AdapterVendorID2: 0x1002, AdapterDeviceID2: 0x95c5, AdapterSubsysID2: 03421028, AdapterDriverVersion2: 8.863.3.0D2D? D2D+ DWrite? DWrite+ ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: release SecondsSinceLastCrash: 12752 StartupTime: 1400097550 SystemMemoryUsePercentage: 63 Theme: classic/1.0 Throttleable: 1 TotalVirtualMemory: 4294836224 URL: User32BeforeBlocklist: 1 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 29.0.1 Winsock_LSP: MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP] : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll

MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP] : 2 : 2 :  
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IP] : 2 : 3 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll 
MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IPv6] : 2 : 1 :  
MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IPv6] : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll 
MSAFD Tcpip [RAW/IPv6] : 2 : 3 :  
RSVP TCPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 1 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll 
RSVP TCP Service Provider : 2 : 1 :  
RSVP UDPv6 Service Provider : 2 : 2 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll 
RSVP UDP Service Provider : 2 : 2 :  
MSAFD Pgm (RDM) : 2 : 4 : %SystemRoot%\system32\mswsock.dll 
MSAFD Pgm (Stream) : 2 : 1 : 

useragent_locale: en-US

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

The second reply was more informative. I wonder if anyone has a work around besides uninstalling as this is a company pc and that software is apparantly required. Any suggestions that do not require actually opening the program to fix it will be greatly appreciated as I cannot get it to open - not even in Safe Mode

Digital Guardian is enterprise software that is only tested and compatible with Firefox ESR releases. Future versions of Digital Guardian will have a better error message about this incompatibility, instead of crashing. But since your computer requires this software, you will have to install the Firefox ESR version, or get it from your system administrator.