Tigurinn Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovell Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 font/shadow problems? Try run - fonts - cleartype or changing the font options in performance settings, I also had something similar it was a problem with ATI can't remember what it was but it was in catalyst control center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceles Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 It's not a screen problem if you can capture it in a screen shot Try a different browser paul0544 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigurinn Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLegendOfMart Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 If you have an AMD card its almost certainly the drivers, I had no end of troubles with hardware acceleration, glitches, freezing, BSOD, etc.. just disable hardware acceleration in the settings of Firefox. Marshall 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNWDweller Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Doubt it is your browser unless this appears only in your browser. Then, if this is the case, disable all extensions and enable them one by one to see if it is an extension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigurinn Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 just disable hardware acceleration in the settings of Firefox. Holy moly, this seems to have done the trick. Thank you and thank you all guys :) No wonder I tend to check out Neowin pretty regularly :) paul0544 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yowanvista Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Few were reporting the same problem with Firefox when having IE10 installed, it apparently broke something with DirectWrite. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812695 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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