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Printing gets scrambled from top of screen down as i watch a selected site????

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Printing on the screen gets progressively scrambled for the top down when watching/reading text on a website. It is not related to the website as this happens on all sites. Seemed to appear after the latest upgrade. Cure???

Printing on the screen gets progressively scrambled for the top down when watching/reading text on a website. It is not related to the website as this happens on all sites. Seemed to appear after the latest upgrade. Cure???

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox (you need to close and restart Firefox).

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox (you need to close and restart Firefox).

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
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Went into tools, options,advanced, general and unchecked "use hardware accelleration when available" option. Seems to be better, will know as soon as i start a session. I will report later.