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Fonts are pixalated. It's only in Firefox after I scrool down a page. I've used Clear Type, but it's only in Firefox 19

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Some of the letters are faded in every word. If I highlight the sentence, it comes back to normal. Or, if I scroll down and back, it's okay again. It's not on any word document or in IE browser.

Some of the letters are faded in every word. If I highlight the sentence, it comes back to normal. Or, if I scroll down and back, it's okay again. It's not on any word document or in IE browser.

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

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That took care of it. Thanks.

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I have had the same issue.

I determined it's due to KB2670838 update that made changes to the following files.

   D3D10SDKLayers.dll
   D3D11SDKLayers.dll
   D3D10ref.dll
   D2D1debug.dll


Platform Update for Windows 7 x64-Edition (KB2670838)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838

DO NOT INSTALL THIS UPDATE AT THIS TIME