Beta repeatedly crashing Nvidia display driver; no other app does. What's up?

Toshiba Qosmio with lots of memory.
Beta crashes the display driver, which self reboots, principally when I try to use the Back button.
The computer is rock solid in other apps.

The latest drivers do not fix this very common problem that people are widely posting about on the web. In fact the problem is the latest, and not so latest drivers. The current bypass for this long standing bug in nVidia`s software, quality control, training and HR practices is to install the old 275.33 drivers.
If you can 100% fix the problem with a software change it is a software problem not a hardware problem, and that is the case with the Firefox crashes.
If you have other problems, not just Firefox, then you have some other problem -- so start your own topic.
nVidia GTX460, never over-clocked, and it crashes Firefox with any version of the nVidia WHQL drivers later than version 275.33.
Anyone wanting proof that this problem is caused by nVidia is invited to install the 275.33 drivers and see that this particular problem goes away.
I'm shocked. I pointedly advise everyone to stay away from nVidia because nVidia has been so incredibly intransigent in its refusal to admit the problem is its drivers.
I've done clean installs, even installs with DriverSweeper, all the WHQL versions since 275.33, as clean as is possible without re-formatting and re-installing Windows, and it just does not help.
But you know, if a clean install did fix it, it would still be a bug in nVidia's code because requirements for clean installs are due to bugs in install scripts.
Anyway, clean installs don't fix it. You can only fix it by going back to an earlier nVidia driver, (one that doesn't have the optimization for SkyRim, the game I'm waiting to play).
nVidia's corporate attitude on this is a disgrace. The immediate solution they should provide are fixed drivers and install scripts, but this problem has gone on for so long now that a software fix is just a bypass. The real bug is poor management attitude.

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