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tabs and tiles are blurry in firefox quantum

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I just got a new laptop, downloaded the most recent Firefox and all but my current tabs are blurry and all text on new tab page is blurry.

I just got a new laptop, downloaded the most recent Firefox and all but my current tabs are blurry and all text on new tab page is blurry.

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You may have accidentally zoomed web page(s). Reset the page zoom on pages that cause problems.

  • View -> Zoom -> Reset (Ctrl+0/Command+0 (zero))
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All tabs are fuzzy except the current one, including the menu bar. It seems to have nothing to do with whether the web page content is zoomed or at 100%. I do not have this problem in any other program.

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should have gone to specsavers

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Can you attach a screenshot?

This could be related with the recent switch in Firefox 52+ from Cairo to Skia for canvas/content rendering.

Firefox 52+ has changed from Cairo to Skia for canvas/content rendering.

You can modify these gfx.*.azure.backends prefs on the about:config page to revert to the old font rendering swap the skia,cairo order to cairo,skia or remove the skia and leave cairo.

  • gfx.canvas.azure.backends = direct2d1.1,cairo,skia
  • gfx.content.azure.backends = direct2d1.1,cairo,skia

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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Once I disable colorful tabs, all is good, screen shot attached - check out upper left hand corner - all is blurred except for current tab