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Graphical Glitches even with Hardware Acceleration off

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After a decent while("a decent while" becoming lesser and lesser an amount of time each time), my firefox client will start graphically glitching out(see attached image). Certain parts of the page would partially load, mousing over page elements MIGHT cause them to load, graphical elements don't scroll with the scrollbar(assuming the scrollbar itself got the memo to load), and switching tabs would cause the page itself to white out. Only restarting the client solves the problem until it happens again. After experimentation, I have noticed that this graphical malfunction only affects Firefox when it's in full screen - however, returning to full screen without restarting the client reveals that nothing has really been fixed. Additionally, using print screen on the Firefox window in this state doesn't capture anything.

I had a similar problem with Hardware Acceleration on, which would very frequently cause the client to be littered with black checkered marks. Disabling it fixed that problem, but in its place this problem emerged, and I've been putting up with it over the last 40 versions of firefox over the last 3 years across the last 2 laptops. Enough is enough.


(P.S. In a cruel but unsurprising-at-this-point twist of fate, my browser crashed while submitting the image for this problem.)

After a decent while("a decent while" becoming lesser and lesser an amount of time each time), my firefox client will start graphically glitching out(see attached image). Certain parts of the page would partially load, mousing over page elements MIGHT cause them to load, graphical elements don't scroll with the scrollbar(assuming the scrollbar itself got the memo to load), and switching tabs would cause the page itself to white out. Only restarting the client solves the problem until it happens again. After experimentation, I have noticed that this graphical malfunction only affects Firefox when it's in full screen - however, returning to full screen without restarting the client reveals that nothing has really been fixed. Additionally, using print screen on the Firefox window in this state doesn't capture anything. I had a similar problem with Hardware Acceleration on, which would very frequently cause the client to be littered with black checkered marks. Disabling it fixed that problem, but in its place this problem emerged, and I've been putting up with it over the last 40 versions of firefox over the last 3 years across the last 2 laptops. Enough is enough. (P.S. In a cruel but unsurprising-at-this-point twist of fate, my browser crashed while submitting the image for this problem.)
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Could you try disabling OMTC? This feature was added in Firefox 33, but seems to be acting up with Nvidia cards in Firefox 48 for some users.

(0) Select and copy the following new preference name:

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.force-disabled

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste layers.off and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Right-click a blank area of the page, click New, then Boolean

(4) Paste the preference name, then click OK

(5) Select true, then click OK

The preference should appear in the list, bolded, and user set to true. If you need to remove this later, right-click > Reset it

I think you probably need to restart Firefox before that takes effect.

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Chosen Solution

Could you try disabling OMTC? This feature was added in Firefox 33, but seems to be acting up with Nvidia cards in Firefox 48 for some users.

(0) Select and copy the following new preference name:

layers.offmainthreadcomposition.force-disabled

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste layers.off and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Right-click a blank area of the page, click New, then Boolean

(4) Paste the preference name, then click OK

(5) Select true, then click OK

The preference should appear in the list, bolded, and user set to true. If you need to remove this later, right-click > Reset it

I think you probably need to restart Firefox before that takes effect.

Alright, done. Will continue to monitor the situation. Should this problem persist I'll know about it very soon.

It appears to have worked. Thanks!~