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Mozilla some pixels turn grey on refresh

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Installed mozilla firefox on my new HP laptop. Whenever i refresh any website, some of the pixels on the browser gets greyed out. Several refreshes or clicking on each grey pixel makes the browser appear normal again!!!

Installed mozilla firefox on my new HP laptop. Whenever i refresh any website, some of the pixels on the browser gets greyed out. Several refreshes or clicking on each grey pixel makes the browser appear normal again!!!

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ok, then i suppose you are using a notebook and it's manufacturer has disabled the option to install generic intel drivers. so your remaining options would be to disable hardware acceleration in the firefox menu ≡ > options > advanced > general (that setting will take a restart of the browser to take effect).

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hello, could you 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 a clue what is going on...

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Application Basics


Name: Firefox Version: 49.0.1 Build ID: 20160922113459 Update Channel: release User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 OS: Windows_NT 10.0 Multiprocess Windows: 0/2 (Disabled by add-ons) Safe Mode: false

Crash Reports for the Last 3 Days


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Extensions


Name: Adobe Acrobat DC - Create PDF Version: 15 Enabled: true ID: [email protected]

Name: Multi-process staged rollout Version: 1.3 Enabled: true ID: [email protected]

Name: Pocket Version: 1.0.4 Enabled: true ID: [email protected]

Name: Web Compat Version: 1.0 Enabled: true ID: [email protected]

Name: Web Developer Version: 1.2.11 Enabled: true ID: {c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12}

Graphics


Features Compositing: Direct3D 11 Asynchronous Pan/Zoom: none WebGL Renderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0) Hardware H264 Decoding: No; D3D11 blacklisted with DLL igd10iumd32.dll (20.19.15.4390); DXVA2D3D9 crashes detected in the past Direct2D: true DirectWrite: true (10.0.14393.206) GPU #1 Active: Yes Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 Vendor ID: 0x8086 Device ID: 0x1916 Driver Version: 20.19.15.4390 Driver Date: 2-18-2016 Drivers: igdumdim64 igd10iumd64 igd10iumd64 igd12umd64 igdumdim32 igd10iumd32 igd10iumd32 igd12umd32 Subsys ID: 00000000 RAM: Unknown

Diagnostics AzureCanvasAccelerated: 0 AzureCanvasBackend: direct2d 1.1 AzureContentBackend: direct2d 1.1 AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo failures: [GFX1-]: DXVA2D3D9 video decoding is disabled due to a previous crash.

Crash Guard Disabled Features D3D9 Video Decoder: Reset on Next Restart

Failure Log (#0) Error: DXVA2D3D9 video decoding is disabled due to a previous crash. (#1) Error: DXVA2D3D9 video decoding is disabled due to a previous crash. (#2) Error: DXVA2D3D9 video decoding is disabled due to a previous crash. (#3) Error: DXVA2D3D9 video decoding is disabled due to a previous crash. (#4) Error: DXVA2D3D9 video decoding is disabled due to a previous crash.

Important Modified Preferences


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print.printer_Samsung_CLX-3170_Series_Class_Driver.print_unwriteable_margin_top: 0 security.ssl.errorReporting.automatic: true services.sync.declinedEngines: storage.vacuum.last.index: 1 storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite: 1475382300 ui.osk.debug.keyboardDisplayReason: IKPOS: Touch screen not found.

Important Locked Preferences


Places Database


JavaScript


Incremental GC: true

Accessibility


Activated: false Prevent Accessibility: 0

Library Versions


NSPR Expected minimum version: 4.12 Version in use: 4.12

NSS Expected minimum version: 3.25 Version in use: 3.25

NSSSMIME Expected minimum version: 3.25 Version in use: 3.25

NSSSSL Expected minimum version: 3.25 Version in use: 3.25

NSSUTIL Expected minimum version: 3.25 Version in use: 3.25

Experimental Features


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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options)
key, and then starting Firefox. A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).

Is the problem still there?


See if there are updates for your graphics drivers https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

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Starting in Safe Mode works great!

With Graphics Driver, it says it has the latest version!

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hi, here should be a driver update for your graphics hardware: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26228/Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-10-and-Windows-7-8-1-15-40- (using windows update to search for newer drivers won't work in most cases).

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win32 Got error: This installation package is not supported by this processor type.

Tried win64 Got error: The driver being installed is not validated for this computer. Please obtain the appropriate driver from the computer manufacturer!

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ok, then i suppose you are using a notebook and it's manufacturer has disabled the option to install generic intel drivers. so your remaining options would be to disable hardware acceleration in the firefox menu ≡ > options > advanced > general (that setting will take a restart of the browser to take effect).

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Nope. Resizing the window also shows the problem.

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after a restart as well?

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worked!

so sorry. i closed one window. there were some others open! :(

thank you so much really appreciate it.