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Black sections in bookmarks list when moving cursor over list.

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When I click to open the bookmarks list and then move the cursor over the list I have sections of the list blacked out although the cursor position is not blacked out thankfully.

I have tried uninstalling and reloading firefox, restarting Firefox, but nothing seems to help. Help please.

When I click to open the bookmarks list and then move the cursor over the list I have sections of the list blacked out although the cursor position is not blacked out thankfully. I have tried uninstalling and reloading firefox, restarting Firefox, but nothing seems to help. Help please.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

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Super advice as it cleared the problem. Hardware accelerator was the cause of the problem. Thank you.