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The characters of many words lose definition on sights I look at so can you help me?

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I'm on a desktop PC with Windows 7. The fonts on many website pages I have been looking at for the last few days seem to fade out unevenly across the screen as I begin to scroll my mouse. Not all sites have this problem. If I click on a link the sight fonts come back into focus.

I'm on a desktop PC with Windows 7. The fonts on many website pages I have been looking at for the last few days seem to fade out unevenly across the screen as I begin to scroll my mouse. Not all sites have this problem. If I click on a link the sight fonts come back into focus.

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No. It is just that Firefox has problems with some graphic display card drivers, but didn't detect this and disable hardware acceleration by itself. In such a case you need to do this yourself.

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The Reset Firefox feature can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information. Note: This will cause you to lose any Extensions, Open websites, and some Preferences.

To Reset Firefox do the following:

  1. Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
  2. Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
  3. Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish.
  4. Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied.


Further information can be found in the Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings article.

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Had no impact, other than freaking me out when the whole format of Firefox went by the wayside. I think I have everything back now. There's this one Java Platform plugin shaded in a light red. Should I disable this plugin?

Any other thoughts out there? I don't use or do anything weird from an application standpoint on my machine - I'm no techie!

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from ConiferDavid:

Looking at other notes of people having my same issue I went used MS Internet Explorer and had no problem at any of the sites I viewed.

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.


If there is a problem with scrolling on web pages then try to disable smooth scrolling.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General: Browsing: "Use smooth scrolling"
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disabling the h/w accelerator worked! Thank you so much!

So, does this mean my monitor can't cope with my Asus 3.2Mz processor?

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No. It is just that Firefox has problems with some graphic display card drivers, but didn't detect this and disable hardware acceleration by itself. In such a case you need to do this yourself.