Problems on Firefox for Windows 10
Computer details: Windows 10 Technical Previewer Build 10074 GPU drivers: latest AMD official 14.12 drivers (NOT WINDOWS BETA DRIVERS) Firefox version: 38.0.1 Build ID: 20150513174244
The problem is the one that can be seen in the screenshot attached. I pointed every place in the Bookmarks toolbar and above where the icons randomly disappear. This is also true for most icons/images in the page. It mostly happens when CTRL+TAB/ALT+TAB into Facebook, but it has also happened in some other websites.
This was happening in same Windows build with previous (I think 38.0.0) Firefox version. Windows was reinstalled and it kept happening. Tried disabling all add-ins and tried launching Firefox on secure mode, nothing has helped at all. Attached troubleshooting information in case this helps.
At this moment, Firefox is UNUSABLE due to constant crashes and visualization glitches, all part of the same issue.
Réiteach roghnaithe
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration
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Réiteach Roghnaithe
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
cor-el said
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
At the very least, that diminished the problem substantially. Any idea why hardware acceleration might be working this bad? I have a new AMD R9 270 that is working flawlessly... Anyway, thank you very very much :D
Immediately after upgrading to Windows 10, I started Firefox and it crashed to the point I had to kill windows.
Funny thou, before it crashed, it displayed screen "Windows 10 + Firefox = Perfection" or something similar. I tried again several times and each time Firefox stopped responding after few clicks, but I haven't experienced the display problems shown above. I even can't check which version of Firefox I run, before it crashes, but I believe it must be one of the most recent ones, as I installed Firefox a week ago, on Windows 8.1, where it worked perfectly well.
Now, I am going to uninstall Firefox and use Microsoft Internet Explorer instead, which is very sad, but necessary, I'm afraid.