PDFs occassionaly become garbled and restarting firefox temporarily fixes it

I view a lot of PDFs for electronics design. And after some time with the browser running it starts to garble PDFs. I have not found a trigger. Sometimes it opens fine in… (read more)

I view a lot of PDFs for electronics design. And after some time with the browser running it starts to garble PDFs. I have not found a trigger. Sometimes it opens fine in a new container tab or private browsing, other times nothing will open it. Very occasionally refreshing a few times makes it load correctly. The error doesn't manifest for all PDFs at the same time. Open ones will remain viewable, and once the error occurs some new PDFs still open while others fail consistently. Sometimes opening the same PDF as a file from my local drive makes it render.

The rendering error is a bit unlike anything I've ever seen. There is a lot of X and Y spearing like it tried to render the same text and images in slightly different spots over and over again. When I switch virtual workspaces and come back some parts of the rendered page retain the contents of the previous workspace and others do not. Scrolling produces jitter and additional smearing.

One somewhat reliable way to trigger the error is to put the laptop to sleep and wake it up. That always causes PDFs to exibit this error but often refreshing the PDF will work to restore it. Not reliably though.

I've attached an image of the error captured with my phone because neither screenshots nor OBS can actually "see" the garbage on screen. Apologies that this error is so full of inconsistent behavior. I've lived with this for some time now in the hopes that it was a temporary problem and tried to work out what causes it but I can't find anything other than putting the laptop to sleep being a cause, and even then it is not the sole cause.

Asked by Colette 🌩️💝 Kerr 3 days ago

the amout of search result of "Bing" in same keywords in firefox browser is less than another browser(chrome).Why?

Lately, I used "Bing" in Firefox browser,but it often show no result and give one message about “Missing children". I think this is very strange, so I try to search in … (read more)

Lately, I used "Bing" in Firefox browser,but it often show no result and give one message about “Missing children". I think this is very strange, so I try to search in the "Bing" in different browser(Firefox and Chrome),and the test is confused. when I used this string "益云公益寻儿童" as the keyword for searching, there is only one result in Firefox browser but there are many results in Chrome browser.please see below images ( image 1 and image 2). At the same time ,there are also many results in "Baidu" in Firefox(image 3). Next I changed another keywords"天气预报",but there is still the big difference between them. when I Searching ,I closed all the plugins. So I think this is strongly related to Firefox browser. This phenomena makes "Bing search" very unpredictable so that I often got no result. please help me! thanks.

Asked by vitaecheng 3 days ago

"Intelligent Work" graphic keeps popping up on my screen

When I have the Firefox browser open, every time I click away from it to another open window I get this stupid graphic that pops up near the bottom right corner of my scr… (read more)

When I have the Firefox browser open, every time I click away from it to another open window I get this stupid graphic that pops up near the bottom right corner of my screen that says "Intelligent Work" and rotates through three different images. It is really irritating and I can't figure out how to make it go away. This is a new computer and I only installed the Firefox browser this week. It only happens when I click off of the browser to any other window.

Asked by davebrown1040 1 month ago

import data from my old pc to my new pc

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Asked by jkhcast 1 month ago

Last reply by cor-el 1 month ago

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For some time now TB has been opening with a blank screen. I've located web advice which reads in part "Usually if you go to "Tools - Account Settings etc, TB will start… (read more)

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Asked by tomav 3 days ago

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Asked by jimerie1 4 days ago

Last reply by Wayne Mery 3 days ago

Recent and unexplained problem sending an email

When I'm writing a new email, I receive several copies of it in my inbox without explanation. It's a recent situation and I can't find a solution. Can you help? Thank you… (read more)

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Asked by freiroma 1 month ago

I am waiting for a mail to be downloaded from the server. How can I get Thunderbird to instantly download any new mails?

How can I get Thunderbird to instantly download all new mails from the server - instead of waiting for the standard mechanism of Thunderbird to download new mails? … (read more)

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Asked by ivanouw 4 days ago

Last reply by david 3 days ago

Getting application errors on some sites – same site works in other browsers

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Asked by thomasderrett 5 days ago

Last reply by cor-el 4 days ago

Get Messages breaks Newsgroup messages

I have an issue with using newgroups via NNTP server in Thunderbird. News only load during startup of the program. Whenever the option Get Messages is chosen later, or wh… (read more)

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Asked by Gottfried Neuner 1 month ago

How does Edison Mail + fit with Thunderbird for Android?

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Asked by M. Richardson 4 days ago

Last reply by Matt 4 days ago

Firefox updated last night while my headphones were plugged in. Now I cannot get sound through my headphones from websites in Firefox. None of the solutions from help forums have worked. Audio settings seem fine and headphones work on other browsers.

Firefox updated last night while my headphones were plugged in. Now I cannot get website audio through the headphones in Firefox. None of the solutions from help forums… (read more)

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Asked by Cathy Rose 4 days ago

Write always gives me a From address that is not the one from the account set as default

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Asked by Tombarkas 4 days ago

Last reply by david 4 days ago

Cannot connect to www.wix.com because authenticity cannot be verified

Our web page uses wix.com When I enter https://wix.com I get the error below. How can this be fixed because I need to update the web page. The web page is for the Adams… (read more)

Our web page uses wix.com When I enter https://wix.com I get the error below. How can this be fixed because I need to update the web page. The web page is for the Adams County Museum in Brighton Colorado Thank you If possible, pls email a fix to adamscountymuseum@gmail.com

An error occurred during a connection to www.wix.com. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

Error code: PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

   The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
   Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Asked by adamscountymuseum 4 days ago

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Video is stuttering with latest update. This just started today, Ma7 17, 2024. I went to a different browser to confirm that it is firefox. This confirmed the issue. … (read more)

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Asked by flyers66 4 days ago