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firefox blurry ui

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hi

windows xp and after update 51.0 any version will get a blurry user interface. see the attached screen shots

I have toyed around with all the gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params parameters to no avail.

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hi windows xp and after update 51.0 any version will get a blurry user interface. see the attached screen shots I have toyed around with all the gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params parameters to no avail. blurry firefox windows xp blurry firefox ui blurry firefox blurred firefox
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as i've said, can you please try with the most recent 52.2.0 which may contain a fix for this issue (bug 1345222).

in case it doesn't help try the following: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named gfx.content.azure.backends. adjust it by removing the skia bit from the pref.

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This looks like a video driver issue. Since xp is no longer supported for firefox you may want to try on at least Windows 7.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/53.0.3/system-requirements/

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You should also check out Firefox; Extended Support Release {web link} ESR Notes System Requirements

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Well that's odd. Weird there's no setting for whatever was introduced that blurs the whole user interface.

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can you please update to firefox 52.2.0 and then go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us more of a clue what is going on...

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thanks

51.0 (32-bit) raw https://pastebin.com/9Zw7HNX2 text https://pastebin.com/aaQYb8kq

52.0.1 (32-bit) raw https://pastebin.com/xZNpTs5C text https://pastebin.com/4MbQ5zVB

the actual reason I'm posting is that this affects the TorBrowser too.

Modified by NesteaZen

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as i've said, can you please try with the most recent 52.2.0 which may contain a fix for this issue (bug 1345222).

in case it doesn't help try the following: enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named gfx.content.azure.backends. adjust it by removing the skia bit from the pref.

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philipp said

as i've said, can you please try with the most recent 52.2.0 which may contain a fix for this issue (bug 1345222).

Oh I'm truly sorry for that.

But removing skia *did* help. Thank you very much for this. Should I still paste a Troubleshoot output?

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no, if you could solve it & are happy that way, that'll be a long-term fix :-)