Firefox 18.0 black screen only on secondary display / black box around mouse cursor, WinXP all updates
After automatic update to firefox 18.0 firefox has totally black screen ( inside border ) if window is on secondary display - normal if window on primary display. Also Mouse cursor (arrow) has black box around it when firefox on secondary display. Display is normal if frame partially overlaps primary display. Environment: Lenovo 9088CTO desktop, 3072 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory Windows XP PRO all updates. ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT [Display adapter] IBM L200P [Monitor] (20.2"vis, s/n 66-C5539, October 2003) IBM L200P [Monitor] (20.2"vis, s/n 66-G8505, April 2004)
Chosen solution
by cor-elTry to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.5
- VLC media player Web Plugin 2.0.2
- Foxit Reader Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.4
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- GEPlugin
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_29 for Mozilla browsers
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
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Chosen Solution
Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
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