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URL placeholder text dissapears with highlighted light blue color

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When I type over the URL place to do a search or type an actual URL, the text disappears under blocks of color. this also happens around the icons in the tool bar. this goes away when I restart in safe mode my mozilla. I unistalled all add ons from my computer. i use no theme. none of this has worked to have the URL placeholder corrected.

When I type over the URL place to do a search or type an actual URL, the text disappears under blocks of color. this also happens around the icons in the tool bar. this goes away when I restart in safe mode my mozilla. I unistalled all add ons from my computer. i use no theme. none of this has worked to have the URL placeholder corrected.

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thank you, please try the following: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named gfx.direct2d.use1_1, double-click it and change its value to false and restart firefox once for the setting to take effect...

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hi, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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Name: Firefox Version: 40.0.2 Build ID: 20150812163655 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/1 (default: false)

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Adapter Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics Adapter Drivers: igdumd64 igd10umd64 igdumdx32 igd10umd32 Adapter RAM: Unknown Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none ClearType Parameters: Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: R ClearType Level: 100 Enhanced Contrast: 400 Device ID: 0x0042 Direct2D Enabled: true DirectWrite Enabled: true (6.2.9200.17461) Driver Date: 8-25-2010 Driver Version: 8.15.10.2202 GPU #2 Active: false GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 Direct3D 11 (OMTC) Subsys ID: 04381028 Supports Hardware H264 Decoding: true Vendor ID: 0x8086 WebGL Renderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0) windowLayerManagerRemote: true AzureCanvasBackend: direct2d 1.1 AzureContentBackend: direct2d 1.1 AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0 (#0) Error: OpenSharedResource failed for format 65

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Incremental GC: true

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Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0

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NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.10.8 Version in use: 4.10.8

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.19.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.2 Basic ECC

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.19.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.2 Basic ECC

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.19.2 Basic ECC Version in use: 3.19.2 Basic ECC

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.19.2 Version in use: 3.19.2

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Chosen Solution

thank you, please try the following: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named gfx.direct2d.use1_1, double-click it and change its value to false and restart firefox once for the setting to take effect...

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it worked like a charm. muchas gracias!