philipp said

hi St.FoxsFire, thanks for reporting this - could you provide more information about your configuration? please go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them into https://pastebin.mozilla.org and then send the page and provide the link here in the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

@philipp Here's that data, sorry for the delay.

Raw Data: https://pastebin.mozilla.org/9080085

Text: https://pastebin.mozilla.org/9080086

Links are good for a month, enjoy. :)

many thanks. in the meantime another affected user found out that it may be related to having cleartype font rendering turned off on the system. so the workaround for the moment would be to either switch on cleartype or disable hardware acceleration in firefox: Firefox's performance settings

Same error for me, at least when trying to open a new tab from an already loaded website.

Looked into the cleartype thing, enabled it, and Firefox 59 is back in business.

The question remains, why now, when cleartype has never affected FF before?

St.FoxsFire said

IT WORKED BEFORE! lol. Ever since I upgraded to firefox 59, everything is broken. Even the new tab page won't load graphics. I can sometimes get them to appear on mouse over. Sometimes pages load semi-normally, then I restart browser and they bork again. Even google.com won't load, same with google search results. Facebook is a mess. Everything is a mess. Help. :(

I am having the very same issues as everybody else in this thread...problems began immediately after upgrading to Version 59.0.1. Very frustrating. Problems go away in safe mode. I have disabled all plugins and extensions, but problems return when not in safe mode.

philipp said

many thanks. in the meantime another affected user found out that it may be related to having cleartype font rendering turned off on the system. so the workaround for the moment would be to either switch on cleartype or disable hardware acceleration in firefox: Firefox's performance settings

Update... i disabled hardware acceleration... and it seems to be working so far. Thank you!! (and yes, i am running with cleartype fonts disabled, as i use pixelated fonts system wide).

Update. Installed 59.0.1. Same issues with pages loading all garbled/broken graphics. Turned on cleartype text work around, fixed the issue. Things look a lil blurry now but i'll fudge with the cleartype. Argh.

EDIT*: I disabled cleartype workaround as it bothered my eyes.

I then disabled hardware accel in firefox settings. Seems to have solved the issue as well.

Observation: Does disabling hardware accel seem to make pages load faster? lol. mkay. :)

St.FoxsFire schrieb

Update. Installed 59.0.1. Same issues with pages loading all garbled/broken graphics. Turned on cleartype text work around, fixed the issue. Things look a lil blurry now but i'll fudge with the cleartype. Argh. EDIT*: I disabled cleartype workaround as it bothered my eyes. I then disabled hardware accel in firefox settings. Seems to have solved the issue as well. Observation: Does disabling hardware accel seem to make pages load faster? lol. mkay. :)

I have the exact same problem. Disabling hardware accel solves the issue because i also have turned off cleartype years ago in my Windows 7.

And yes, without hardware accel Firefox is much faster and responsive.

Another big negative point of Firefox is that some videos stutter all the time, it doesn't matter if hardware accel is turned on or off.

For that case i'm using the open source browser chromium which plays videos etc. without problems, no stutters at all.

It's a shame that FF sucks at online videos because the normal browsing is way much better than chromium.

I have a Dell Laptop from 2009, Win 7 x64, Ati Mobility Radeon HD 3450. ALL drivers and the system are up to date. The only extension i'm using is uBlock Origin, turned on or off doesn't make any difference to solve the issues.

Edit:

Here are 3 examples where videos stutter. Chromium plays them without problems:

1. https://www.arcor.de/article/TV---Video-Best-of-Web--Der-Hype-um-den-Hai--Doch-nicht-so-gefaehrlich-/hub01-home-tv_video-best_of_web/6968065

2. https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Kaum-zu-glauben-XXL,kaumzuglauben352.html

3. At the very beginning (the commercial). https://www.twitch.tv/tcec_chess_tv

Same problem including that entering the password for this site was not possible (blank field, no dots displayed and wrong password) with hardware accelaration enabled, but only for some time.

http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread.php?96566-Kasa-Sunrise-Sunset-Need-Offset-Time-capability#post228875

was distorted, but now OK with and without hardware acceleration. Same problem with an in-house page, no consequent repeatability.

Symptoms were graphical elements (tabs, buttons) not displayed until clicked or mouse hovering over them.

http://www.shuttle.eu/ also exhibits problems

I am using Opera instead !

joergent said

Same problem including that entering the password for this site was not possible (blank field, no dots displayed and wrong password) with hardware accelaration enabled, but only for some time. http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread.php?96566-Kasa-Sunrise-Sunset-Need-Offset-Time-capability#post228875 was distorted, but now OK with and without hardware acceleration. Same problem with an in-house page, no consequent repeatability. Symptoms were graphical elements (tabs, buttons) not displayed until clicked or mouse hovering over them. http://www.shuttle.eu/ also exhibits problems I am using Opera instead !

I had all those same problems, including the messed up password issue. Same fix solved it for me, too.

I have the same issue since Firefox 59.0 (an upgrade to 59.0.1 didn´t solved the issue). Google and multiple other sites aren´t looking how they should be... However disabling hardware acceleration also fixed the issue for me. I´m not using any Firefox plugins. Flash is also not installed on that PC. Reinstallation also do not fixed the issue.

I´m using a Laptop (Windows 7) with an NVIDIA NVS 5100M Graphic card. All the drivers are up to date. So I think this isn´t a Graphic Card Vendor or driver issue we see here.

Note: I have the issue also on my Work Notebook I just recognized after it updated to 59.0.1 disabling hardware acceleration here fixed the issue as well.

BTW:

since years and till today, Firefox has still a huge memory leak. It consumes more and more ram over time even though i'm closing tabs or surf on different sites. It doesn't free the ram. In that matter Chromium is light years ahead.

And it looks like they will never fix that.

That's another big negative point about Firefox and a reason more why i'm using more and more the open source browser Chromium: http://chromium.woolyss.com/

ALSO: Firefox can't play every HTML5 audio/video where Chromium can play everything. Here you can test for yourself: https://tools.woolyss.com/html5-audio-video-tester/

BEFORE YOU DO ALL THE COMPLEX SUGGESTIONS, try this simple fix which worked for me. If you have a custom windows theme (desktop background), it may be conflicting with the browsers. Re-set your theme to Windows Default and see if it fixes the problem.

I found something strange in the processes... There seems to be an issue with a process pointing to "-greomni" and "-appomni". (see "details" in task manager) killing this one process, which may pop up a second time, seems to restore everything to proper working order.

EDIT: this process is involved with "Hardware acceleration". No matter where i set the process limit, i still get problems. Only completely disabling "hardware acceleration" worked for me. Strangely, While all the other sites were having issues, for some reason, youtube worked perfectly.

Hey man, I had the same issues. Just try to dissable hardware acceleration in Options. I hope it helps.

Regards

Turning off Hardware Acceleration solved the the slow and incomplete page displays for me. Windows 7 64 bit.

Turn off Hardware Acceleration in Options, General Setup, Unclick "Use Recommended performance settings", Unclick "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Just saw the issue reported here was move moved to the BugTracker here and this bug was solved in Firefox 59.0.2. Did anybody performed the update and re-enabled the hardware acceleration and checked if the issue is still existing? It looks like its working for me again a website which was broken in the past is working again after the fix.

Update: So I personally would say that the update to 59.0.2 fixed the issue and its safe to disable the workaround(s) we outlined here.

I agree; 59.0.2 seems to have solved the problem. Thanks to everyone who bothered to help out.