Do I either have to choose between CSS-modified input forms having random artifacts or Google Maps being rendered as a mirror image?
The issue has to do with offmainthreadcomposition. In Issue 1039058 "firefox rounded buttons rendering issue" at:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1039058
The chosen solution, which came from moderator cor-el, involved going to about:config and setting OMTC to false. While this solution didn't help the poster of that thread, it did remove the random artifacts from input buttons on my computer that were modified by CSS (specifically, those modified by the Stylish extension) and made them render properly.
Unfortunately, Google has recently made changes to maps and apparently now requires this setting to be enabled in order for them to display properly. If OMTC is set to false, the maps will initially look correct, but after a few seconds, they will change to a mirror image, where even dragging the image by mouse works the opposite as expected! Strangely, pop up infoboxes still render correctly.
Since this completely breaks Google Maps, I am hoping there is another solution to CSS-modified input fields often looking wrong until I hover my mouse over them.
Chosen solution
I didn't try safe mode, but your link reminded me to also check
Options > Advanced > Use hardware acceleration when available
It was checked. So I unchecked it, restarted Firefox, reloaded the page and voila! The artifacts were gone!
That solves my problem, just as it did for the poster of issue 1039058. So to recap (for anyone else reading this having similar issues) the solution for me that worked was:
• layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = true
(i.e. OMTC; Disabling this fixed the artifacts but broke Google Maps)
• layers.d3d11.disable-warp = true
• layers.acceleration.disabled = true
(This is the same as unchecking Options>Advanced>Use hardware acceleration when available)
I suggest to others troubleshooting to first try disabling hardware acceleration from the menu first, restarting Firefox and then reloading the page with the artifacts. That may be enough to solve the problem. If it doesn't, then try changing layers.d3d11.disable-warp from about:config and see if that helps.
Thanks for your help, cor-el!
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hello, could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...
You can try to disable WARP and set this pref to true.
- layers.d3d11.disable-warp = true
Here is the troubleshooting info. To keep reply less than 10,000 chars, I got rid of the IDs for all disabled extensions.
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cor-el said
You can try to disable WARP and set this pref to true.
- layers.d3d11.disable-warp = true
As you can see in the previous reply, I tried this but it didn't help. Nor did disabling all extensions other than Stylish.
It could be a problem with the stylesheet itself, since I don't encounter this often on other websites, but pinpointing the exact selector(s) and rules that trigger the artifacts would be a daunting task (the stylesheet itself is around 43k in size).
Any other ideas? I had thought to write a simple Scriptish (i.e. GreaseMonkey) script to toggle OMTC on and off either manually or after checking the url domain, but a permanent fix would be better.
You do not need the print prefs, so you can leave out those as well.
Did you try Firefox Safe Mode?
please also try updating your nvidia graphics driver: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90031/en-us
Chosen Solution
I didn't try safe mode, but your link reminded me to also check
Options > Advanced > Use hardware acceleration when available
It was checked. So I unchecked it, restarted Firefox, reloaded the page and voila! The artifacts were gone!
That solves my problem, just as it did for the poster of issue 1039058. So to recap (for anyone else reading this having similar issues) the solution for me that worked was:
• layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = true
(i.e. OMTC; Disabling this fixed the artifacts but broke Google Maps)
• layers.d3d11.disable-warp = true
• layers.acceleration.disabled = true
(This is the same as unchecking Options>Advanced>Use hardware acceleration when available)
I suggest to others troubleshooting to first try disabling hardware acceleration from the menu first, restarting Firefox and then reloading the page with the artifacts. That may be enough to solve the problem. If it doesn't, then try changing layers.d3d11.disable-warp from about:config and see if that helps.
Thanks for your help, cor-el!