Firefox 33.0.1 - Text rendering issues with hardware acceleration on OR off.
Hello, I am having issues with Firefox rendering text badly and other graphical issues regardless of hardware acceleration.
With hardware acceleration turned ON, I have issues with "ghost text cursors" appearing in various parts of the interface, most notably in the tabs next to the X button on each tab, but also other sections of the interface as well. Text is rendered at correct thickness, but in some cases blinks back and forth from correct to too-thin (see below/off) in sync with the blinking speed of text cursors.
With hardware acceleration turned OFF, I have issues where text in menus and webpages are rendered too thin, making it extremely hard to see. The blinking issues and artifacts are gone, however.
I am using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti with the latest driver version (344.48).
This only started happening around version 33.0, possibly one version older (not 100% sure). I really don't want to pick and choose between which crappy experience I'd rather have. I just want text to render how it used to, nice and clean and legible. What can I try to remedy this?
Ausgewählte Lösung
Try to disable OMTC and leave hardware acceleration in Firefox enabled.
- layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = false
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
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Hi wyrenth, Thank you for your question, I understand that you would like text to render normally, not the bad experience that currently is happening. And even though hardware acceleration is turned off it still happens.
Can you please try to see if this is happening in Safe Mode to see if its an issue with an add on. In order to make sure its not a plugin, disabling them one by one is necessary. Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode
The text continues to render poorly in Safe Mode with Hardware Acceleration disabled.
Hardware acceleration cannot be enabled in Safe Mode, or the option is ignored -- the text rendered as though Hardware Acceleration was turned off when the option was enabled.
The issue is not due to a plugin.
So, is there no way to adjust the rendering engine (if there's more than one, or if there are options to do so) via about:config or similar? No way to troubleshoot this?
Ausgewählte Lösung
Try to disable OMTC and leave hardware acceleration in Firefox enabled.
- layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = false
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
That may have done trick! I'm not noticing the text blinking issue, and so far no artifacts. If the situation changes, I'll check again and post an update, but so far so good. Thanks!
Firefox 36.0.4 nvidia driver 347.25 Patch for MS15-010 (involves TrueType fonts) installed.
This reply is a sort of footnote, as I started to get issues with font rendering poorly again (specifically blinking) when using the selected-fix settings. Font rendering issues became a general Windows issue after the security patch above was installed; everything was fine with the selected-fix settings until then.
For now, the solution to my problem has changed to: - Disable Hardware Acceleration - Disable OMTC (see above)
Will update again if something else breaks it...
There have been issues reported on Windows Vista with the kb3013455 update from Microsoft. Microsoft has released an update to address these issues. MS15-010: Description of the security update for Windows kernel mode driver: February 10, 2015:
Fix for text quality degradation after security update 3013455 (MS15-010) is installed: