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Does Windows 8 cause a few random characters, slow pages & webpages incorrectly formatted?

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I get a few random characters on a few webpages, slow webpage downloads and a few webpages incorrectly formatted.

I get a few random characters on a few webpages, slow webpage downloads and a few webpages incorrectly formatted.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

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Here are some examples of my problem.

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error uploading stuff too.

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very slow to upload

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it's not uploading properly - another problem with Firefox. upload limit is 1Mb.

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A few random characters.

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Hello Jumboshares, keep in mind, that windows 8 is not yet listed as a supported OS in 16.x version on firefox see: Firefox 16 System Requirements, it is in the next 17.0 version see: Firefox 17 System Requirements, 17.0 coming in 2012-11-20 .


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Such random characters can be added by your security software (firewall) as a record count of each section.

A possible cause is security software (firewall,anti-virus) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.

Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.

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I have this issue as well. It's surprising to me that it's taking this long to get out Firefox when Windows 8 has been around in beta for a long time. Even Opera has released their Windows 8 browser, now that's bad.

Slow web page loading, some web pages won't load all their graphics, random characters or crazy formatting at times.

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Oh I forgot to mention terrible multi touch control of Firefox in Win8, no tap to zoom, extremely slow pinch to zoom in / out, cannot scroll left right, only up down works and it's very ratchety.