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When switching to fullscreen mode whole screen dissapears untill you exit fullscreen. ?

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Everything on the screen is replaced by a distorted erratic pattern like interference or swithcing the monitor to a strange other channel ?. Full screen works fine when not in browser ?

Everything on the screen is replaced by a distorted erratic pattern like interference or swithcing the monitor to a strange other channel ?. Full screen works fine when not in browser ?

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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.

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Thanks for that. Unfortunatley this hasn't worked but will try to up grade the drivers