Frequent Firefox crashes, even after re-installation

I'm running the current version of firefox on windows 8, and the issues cropping up really have me stumped.
I've had occasional crashes in the past, but lately Firefox seems to be crashing much more frequently. I've installed new security software and run scans for malware, but they didn't detect much of anything. I've deleted firefox entirely and done a complete reinstallation of the latest version from scratch, but the crashes started again as soon as firefox was re-installed, before I could install any add-ons. I've had about 20 crashes in the last 24 hours.
If y'all have any further suggestions, i'd love to hear them; my patience is wearing thin.

great, thanks. all of those look like a crash triggered by your nvidia graphics driver in relation to hardware acceleration in firefox - please try [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL|updating the graphics driver]] for your model on the nvidia website, or in case this doesn't solve the issue or there is no new version available at the moment, disable hardware acceleration in the firefox ''menu ≡ > options > advanced > general'' (that setting will take a restart of the browser to take effect).

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I will flag this as escalate, as I do not understand the crash.
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* Crash Signature: StrChrIA
** 7 days https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?product=Firefox&signature=StrChrIA#tab-sigsummary
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bug 627238 RESOLVED WORKSFORME blocklist CbFsMntNtf3.dll 3.0.77.30 to stop crashes [@ StrChrIA] caused by eldos Callback File System
bug 547588 RESOLVED DUPLICATE crash in private mode [@ StrChrIA ]
bug 530074 <s>NEW </s>--- Crash [@ StrChrIA ] from winsock and shlwapi.dll (LSP, evil *x86.dll module)
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+crashes
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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You can also try to contact BD for support.
Quote: ''I ran the sessions in safe mode and it did not crash, so it is not my add-ons.''
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile
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If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
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* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes
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* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

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