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Text overlapping in drop down menus and input boxes

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alertjean
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Firefox doesn't move the cursor when I type text into text boxes for certain characters in some webpages. I am seeing similar discrepancy in drop down menus too. See this image: http://imgur.com/xvqmjA6 Original Link: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/d/digital-media-keyboard

Firefox doesn't move the cursor when I type text into text boxes for certain characters in some webpages. I am seeing similar discrepancy in drop down menus too. See this image: http://imgur.com/xvqmjA6 Original Link: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/d/digital-media-keyboard

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cor-el
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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

alertjean
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Thanks! It worked magically. Is this a known issue ? Why could hardware acceleration create problems like these ?

cor-el
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You're welcome.

A lot (most) of such issues with displaying text are caused by problems with hardware acceleration in Firefox.
Not all display drivers are fully compatible with the current Firefox release.

See also: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration