Black screen, slow input

Firefox upgraded to v33.0. At that point, input from the keyboard became extraordinarily slow and the browser pane would go black (as others have reported) as well as dropdown menus.
I deactivated hardware acceleration, rebooted, and upgraded the Intel HD 3000 graphics drivers without improvement. I cannot reset as I use Session Manager and don't want to lose the library of saved sessions.
At this point, I cannot use Firefox. Is there a way to revert to an earlier version to get back up to speed?
I am using: WIndows 7 Pro SP1 64-bit, Dell Latitude E6420, i7-2769QM, NVIDIA NVS 4200M.
DV

Mozilla has released an updated Firefox version (33.0.1) that fixes the black screen problem.
If you are in Firefox and can see your menus, you can [[update Firefox to the latest version|update Firefox from the Help menu]]. Otherwise, you should go to https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/ using Internet Explorer or another browser and download the setup file for '''Firefox 33.0.1''' in your language.
See [[Firefox shows a black screen or blank screen after updating to 33]] for more information.
<sub> '''Note to CoryMH:''' I tried https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/ in SeaMonkey just now and it offered me the old version, Firefox Setup Stub 33.0.exe ! </sub>

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logix wrote:
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turned off my WiFi and issues still persisted.
This had previously been on forums last week in Mac Mini section with the help of 'BDAqua' however im out of options and need some more help. If anyone could be helpful enough to give some suggestions on why my screen is black upon waking up (exc. notifications. they appear) and most time i need to hard reboot (sometimes i can type in password and it unlocks).
I can not afford to start fresh, i have a 110GB iTunes Library with 210 iOS apps and photos too important to me to be forgotten.
PLEASE HELP ME

Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues. If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
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If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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Black screen on wake up - subsequent unwanted reboot

I have troubles to wake up my MacBook Pro. If it has been asleep and asked to wake up (by hitting a button or moving the mouse) it gives me a completely black screen (in 20% on the times). I am not an expert in power saving techniques so maybe 'sleeping' is the wrong expression. What I mean is the-state-where-the-screen-goes-black-after-a-few-minutes.
In this 'black' mode the mouse pointer can be seen and I can move it around. After that, nothing happens. If everything was in order, I would get (in the other 80% of times) the login window for my password.
By pressing <return> (the only key that triggers anything at all) the computer reboots without any further questions. I am then welcomed by the initial log in window - all work and unsaved documents gone ...
The problem seem to occure more often when the machine is working hard in the background. The programs I run are not exhausting the memory by far and I have run the hardware checking tool (boot with 'D') and the disk utility (boot with 'C').
Could this be a Intel specific problem ? On my PowerBook running the same OS version I have never seen this. By the way, my (subjectiv) impression is that the responses of Mac OS to 'user input' like wake-up is much slower on the new Intel machine than on my old G4 ...
I am using the machine to do long running calculations and this problem renders the Mac almost useless for my work, since I can not sit there and press a button every two or three minutes to avoid 'sleeping' (and setting the machine to never sleep is not really an option, is it ?). I would like to use the new machine (Dual Core Intel) exactly as my old G4 one ...
Any suggestion would be helpful. Thanks, and appologies if this question has already been answered.
Message was edited by: Fredrik Akesson

Hi! I was hoping you would get some good answers to this because my system does the same thing. I do have one answer for you. I downloaded a program called Caffeine which allows you to stop the sleep mode. when you open the program it puts 3 zz's on your top panel and you can click it to keep you PC from sleeping. Good luck! I will be watching for responses. Arias

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