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disappearing context menus and tooltips

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Hi. After updating to firefox 10 i got very annoying behavior where all context menu, selection lists and tooltips are appearing for very short moment and then disappear right away. When moving mouse over the invisible menu the menu is flickering, sometimes stays visible for a while.

Hi. After updating to firefox 10 i got very annoying behavior where all context menu, selection lists and tooltips are appearing for very short moment and then disappear right away. When moving mouse over the invisible menu the menu is flickering, sometimes stays visible for a while.

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

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.

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

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.

S.C.
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disabling the acceleration helped, thanks a lot, i will try later check update for the graphics driver