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Firefox address bar is blank apart from when being typed into

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DevilishDB replied
DevilishDB
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I know this has been asked before about v15, but none of the answers have helped. It's not reletaed to my profile or extensions, since I've tried it with a blank profile. The address bar in Firefox remains blank, as in this screenshot: http://imgur.com/Z6vH6fw I can still select text and when I type into the address bar from a new tab the text is displayed but when it's not empty you can't see it. I don't mind if I have to write a user stylesheet, I've already tried `#urlbar { color: #000 !important; }` in Stylish but that doesn't work.

I know this has been asked before about v15, but none of the answers have helped. It's not reletaed to my profile or extensions, since I've tried it with a blank profile. The address bar in Firefox remains blank, as in this screenshot: http://imgur.com/Z6vH6fw I can still select text and when I type into the address bar from a new tab the text is displayed but when it's not empty you can't see it. I don't mind if I have to write a user stylesheet, I've already tried `#urlbar { color: #000 !important; }` in Stylish but that doesn't work.

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NoahSUMO
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What distro of Linux are you on? Ubuntu?

I'm hearing about this problem affecting some themes across different Linux distros.

  • Type about:config in the address bar and press enter
  • Click the 'I promise to be careful' button
  • In the Search Bar, type gfx.xrender.enabled

Double-click that preference to set it to false. Close Firefox and reopen it. Hopefully that did the trick. Let me know if it did.

From Comment #11 in this Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1316250

Thanks to yanlau852 who reported this workaround.

Modified by NoahSUMO

DevilishDB
DevilishDB Question owner

You are a genius! And I'm using Antergos (which is based on Arch) with Xfce desktop. Thanks for the help