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Black and white blocks covering browser during download

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I am getting black and white "blocks covering my entire or parts of my whole browser when I am either loading a page, typing, or clicking a button while I am downloading a file. This happens every time.

I am getting black and white "blocks covering my entire or parts of my whole browser when I am either loading a page, typing, or clicking a button while I am downloading a file. This happens every time.

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).


Try to disable hardware acceleration.

If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.