Why does Firefox 35 keep going black?

For some odd reason, Firefox 35 will suddenly display a black screen. I tend to open two browsers and within those browsers open up two or three tabs. I often minimize one browser to use another and then minimize the current browser to maximize the previously minimized one so that I can use it. This has worked fine with other versions but for version 35 it causes problems. Black screens display almost daily and it's becoming a big hassle. I've had to use IE much more than I like (IE has a lot of problems with viruses and trojans) but the problems with Firefox leave me little choice.
What is causing this problem? I also get messages saying that I'm using a lot of memory on Firefox - even after I've only been using th browser for a few short minutes. I do have a lot of websites bookmarked but these have been accumulating through various versions of Firefox so I don't know if that's the problem.
What can be done to fix this problem?

hello, maybe that's an issue with hardware acceleration - please try [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL|updating your graphics driver]], 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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