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Tooltips (html title attribute) work in safe mode but not in a clean profile

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When viewing a site that is using html title attribute such as http://xkcd.com (hover with mouse over the comic strip) the tooltips are not shown. In safe-mode they work.

Letting the safe mode start window reset everything does not help. Neither does completely removing the profile (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox) and letting Firefox to recreate it.

When viewing a site that is using html title attribute such as http://xkcd.com (hover with mouse over the comic strip) the tooltips are not shown. In safe-mode they work. Letting the safe mode start window reset everything does not help. Neither does completely removing the profile (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox) and letting Firefox to recreate it.

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In Firefox 4 and later Safe mode disables extensions and disables 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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In Firefox 4 and later Safe mode disables extensions and disables 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, disabling hw acceleration indeed works!

Well, this is a company notebook with some fancy dual graphics, so while I have current drivers released by the OEM, I am not going to experiment with stock NVIDIAs current driver (which is indeed more recent).

For the records, this is a Dell Latitude E6520 with NVIDIA Quadro 4200.