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Ghost images show up on Firefox browser but stay after window closes. Is that a way to stop this?

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When I open a firefox session it creates two square ghost images on the screen. The images are sections of the previous view. They show up when I scroll up the page. The images stay on the screen after you close the window. I have tried graphics drivers and I change resolution up and down to get them to go away. This works until I open firefox again. IE does not create these problems.

When I open a firefox session it creates two square ghost images on the screen. The images are sections of the previous view. They show up when I scroll up the page. The images stay on the screen after you close the window. I have tried graphics drivers and I change resolution up and down to get them to go away. This works until I open firefox again. IE does not create these problems.

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You might need to disable Firefox's use of your graphics card, as there have been some glitches since the release of this feature.

orange Firefox button or Tools menu > Options > Advanced

On the "General" mini-tab, uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Does that fix it?

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You might need to disable Firefox's use of your graphics card, as there have been some glitches since the release of this feature.

orange Firefox button or Tools menu > Options > Advanced

On the "General" mini-tab, uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available"

Does that fix it?

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That seemed to fix it. I will let you know if we have any trouble. Thanks.