What is happening to my screen?

By Tigurinn
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Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

But I'm a novice in pretty much all things digital - so, therefore I couldn't possibly describe it in words, so a screenshot does the job for me.

When you spot it, I would be highly grateful if you would tell me why it's happening and what could possibly be wrong.

By the way, I'm running Windows 7 (with no prior problems)

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It looks like hardware acceleration problems... had those the very first days that I was testing windows 8 and firefox still didn't supported it at all, it's not your monitor, rather it seems that your browser is having problems with the hardware acceleration (if enabled as most of the browsers do by default nowadays).

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Thanks you guys.

I haven't had any problems before, so I don't quite understand it - especially since the laptop is just the way when it was bought new (no hardware upgrades, and no os upgrades). And the browser is Firefox 19 - with a some addons, which couldn't possibly be causing this (I think) and my preferred browser, so I really want to stick to it

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