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Visual glitches in firefox?

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Ever since I installed windows 7 and firefox. I have been getting strange glitches on my screen. They randomly appear on my screen and on firefox only.

Here is a picture of it as I type right now.

http://i.imgur.com/afTlv6l.png

Ever since I installed windows 7 and firefox. I have been getting strange glitches on my screen. They randomly appear on my screen and on firefox only. Here is a picture of it as I type right now. http://i.imgur.com/afTlv6l.png

Modified by stevetwotheo

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Hello,

Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.

(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)

  • On Windows you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
  • On Mac you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the option key while starting Firefox.
  • On Linux you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by quitting Firefox and then going to your Terminal and running: firefox -safe-mode (you may need to specify the Firefox installation path e.g. /usr/lib/firefox)
  • Or open the Help menu and click on the Restart with Add-ons Disabled... menu item while Firefox is running.

FirefoxSafeMode

Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode" Safe Mode Fx 15 - Win

If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article for that.

To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.

When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.

Thank you.

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Also note that hardware acceleration is disabled in safe mode and is most likely the issue, other than a addon.

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I tried hardware acceleration before and it didn't work.

The only extenstion I have install is adblock.

I just removed adblock and I am still getting the visual glitches..

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Try a clean reinstall and delete the Firefox program folder before (re)installing a fresh copy of the current Firefox release.

Download a fresh Firefox copy and save the file to the desktop.

Uninstall your current Firefox version, if possible, to cleanup the Windows registry and settings in security software.

  • Do NOT remove personal data when you uninstall your current Firefox version, because all profile folders will be removed and you lose personal data like bookmarks and passwords from profiles of other Firefox versions.

Remove the Firefox program folder before installing that newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer.

  • (32 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\"
  • (64 bit Windows) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\"

Your bookmarks and other personal data are stored in the Firefox profile folder and won't be affected by an uninstall and (re)install, but make sure that "remove personal data" is NOT selected when you uninstall Firefox.

If you keep having problems then also create a new profile.


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I've tried doing all you said including deleting everything. But the problem is still here. And it only is doing this on the firefox browser.

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please try 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 firefox > options > advanced > general.

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Again I have tried the hardware acceleration and it doesn't work.

However I think it's got something to do with windows 7 aero themes. As I changed it to "windows 7 basic" in the personalization option and now I'm not getting the glitches.

I've switched it back to windows 7 aero theme and now I'm getting the problems again?

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i'm aware that you've mentioned having "tried hardware acceleration" before - however it was not clear to me what that meant (hwa enabled or disabled). please note that our recommendation for this problem was to switch off hardware acceleration...

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I have tried disabling it 3 times and it doesn't work.

Modified by stevetwotheo