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Right mouse menu flickers and is mostly unreadable ever since upgrade to Firefox 17.0.1

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It seems like maybe 3 months now since Firefox did the auto download/install of a new version, and ever since the right mouse menu just momentarily flashes on, then disappears. To read the right mouse menu I have to repeatedly run the mouse cursor over the menu until it flickers enough times to read the text, then I have to guess that I have the mouse cursor on top of the correct menu item from where it was flickering before I click it. This problem never occurred in the earlier versions of firefox

It seems like maybe 3 months now since Firefox did the auto download/install of a new version, and ever since the right mouse menu just momentarily flashes on, then disappears. To read the right mouse menu I have to repeatedly run the mouse cursor over the menu until it flickers enough times to read the text, then I have to guess that I have the mouse cursor on top of the correct menu item from where it was flickering before I click it. This problem never occurred in the earlier versions of firefox

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

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Please update to Firefox 19 Update Firefox to the latest release then try to Reset Firefox Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings

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Chosen Solution

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.