When I use Firefox, it makes the whites on my computer screen turn to yellow.
I'm running Firefox 10.0.2 on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. Either yesterday (or perhaps the evening before) the whites on my screen suddenly started turning yellow. I thought it was my video card, so I updated the driver. It fixed it for a moment, but then the whites went yellow again. So today I started over with a clean install on my video driver - I thought everything was fixed. Then I started opening programs one by one. First I opened IE and used it for about half an hour - the whites stayed white. Then I opened Thunderbird - the same. And then I opened Firefox - as soon as I did the whites turned yellow. I started opening up other applications and their whites were yellow as well. In addition, I will see random yellow bars on the screen - sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical.
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Try to disable hardware acceleration.
- Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
If disabling hardware acceleration works then check if there is an update available for your graphics display driver.
Try to set the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management.
You need to close and restart Firefox to make the change effective.
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I thought turning off hardware acceleration fixed it. But after about 15 minutes, the problem came back. I'll try the about:config thing.
Modified by danatbird
Are you overclocking any hardware (graphics display) on your computer?
No - I didn't even know what that was until I looked it up. I thought this was a video card problem until I realized that it's only Firefox that causes it. Now I'm not sure. From the video side of things, I've tried various drivers (even worked with Nvidia on it). I can go into the control panel, slightly lower the brightness setting, and the yellow goes away for a few minutes. Or I've discovered I can either lower the resolution substantially or just reduce the color depth to 16-bit and the colors stay white indefinitely, if not permanently - but either reduces the quality. At any rate it's only Firefox that gets the problem started. I did try the about:config thing - that worked for a while - I thought it had solved the problem. But then I left the PC for a couple of hours and when I came back everything was yellow again.
I'm going to try shutting down Firefox and then open IE and leave it up for a couple of hours to see if the same thing happens. Perhaps this is going to have something to do with system resources and the fact that it keeps happening in Firefox is just coincidental (since I use Firefox almost exclusively)
After extensive testing, I don't believe it's going to be a Firefox problem - it look like it's a Thunderbird problem. As long as I don't bring up Thunderbird and start using it, the screen stays white. As soon as I bring up Thunderbird, everything goes yellow again.