Weird visual glitches

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questir
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Joined: March 25th, 2015, 4:49 am

Weird visual glitches

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Sometimes while browsing I get some weird visual issues where some letters disappear or I get random white boxes or some letters appear distorted snowy like. It started like 2 weeks ago and happens very rarely but annoying.

I have the lastest Nvidia driver version and I also tried a fresh install with Guru3d but hasnt got fixed.

Has anyone else had this problem?
kerft
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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One thing that may have changed is your graphics card being whitelisted for webrender or you being added to a webrender test group. See here for details https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/20/firef ... irefox-67/ or try going to about:config and set gfx.webrender.all to false.
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dickvl
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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Did you check for hardware acceleration issues and possibly disable hardware acceleration in Firefox ?
Options/Preferences -> General: Performance :
[ ] "Use recommended performance settings"
[ ] "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Close and restart Firefox after modifying this setting.

See also:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pe ... e-settings
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/up ... celeration
questir
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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kerft wrote:One thing that may have changed is your graphics card being whitelisted for webrender or you being added to a webrender test group. See here for details https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/20/firef ... irefox-67/ or try going to about:config and set gfx.webrender.all to false.
It was set on true but changed it to false. Does this mean I was choose to the test group or something?
questir
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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dickvl wrote:Did you check for hardware acceleration issues and possibly disable hardware acceleration in Firefox ?
Options/Preferences -> General: Performance :
[ ] "Use recommended performance settings"
[ ] "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Close and restart Firefox after modifying this setting.

See also:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pe ... e-settings
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/up ... celeration
Yeah already tried this but it didn't work
kerft
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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Not sure. Please let us know if disabling webrender (and restarting) made the glitches go away.
questir
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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I will keep this updated but like I said this doesnt happen too often. Gonna wait a few days to see if the glitch shows up again
questir
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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3 days after webrender disabled and the issue didn't show up so far. Gonna keep updating this in a few days and might call it fixed.
questir
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Re: Weird visual glitches

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Okay almost one week and I haven't had the problem. I guess is fixed, hopefully I didn't jinxed it
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