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Firefox 4 RC2 seems to have a problem correctly displaying. Small to large black boxes appear all over it, and change places when I move my mouse. Sometimes the whole screen goes black. Never had that problem before.

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moembn
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When I uploaded it, it said it had a problem with the detection of my logitech update program for my mouse. My computer info: Operating System MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU Intel Core i7 720QM @ 1.60GHz 43 °C Clarksfield 45nm Technology RAM 4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20) Motherboard Alienware (CPU 1) Graphics Generic PnP Monitor (1440x900@60Hz) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Hard Drives 244GB Seagate ST9250410AS (SATA) 34 °C Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GA31N Audio ATI High Definition Audio Device

I reinstalled the version 3.6.15 so that I could use firefox again. Never has been a problem with this like that.

When I uploaded it, it said it had a problem with the detection of my logitech update program for my mouse. My computer info: Operating System MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU Intel Core i7 720QM @ 1.60GHz 43 °C Clarksfield 45nm Technology RAM 4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20) Motherboard Alienware (CPU 1) Graphics Generic PnP Monitor (1440x900@60Hz) ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Hard Drives 244GB Seagate ST9250410AS (SATA) 34 °C Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GA31N Audio ATI High Definition Audio Device I reinstalled the version 3.6.15 so that I could use firefox again. Never has been a problem with this like that.

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You can try disables hardware acceleration.
If that works then check if you can find an update of your graphics display card driver.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
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cor-el
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You can try disables hardware acceleration.
If that works then check if you can find an update of your graphics display card driver.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
moembn
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It worked! I had previously installed the latest updates for my graphics card driver, and followed your instructions to disable hardware acceleration for firefox and now no more blackness of firefox. Thanks

monkeypigs
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It does work, and fixes other weirdness like issues on facebook. However you need to restart Firefox for it to take effect as simply reloading a page after changing the setting made no effect.

tunkul
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I definitely have a problem with popup menus and firefox 4. Eg, the menu that pops up is blank, or flickers in and out as i navigate the entries.

BUT, this only happens on my 2nd monitor; on the 1st monitor it's fine. I noticed this on 2 different computers. When i revert to firefox 3, everything is fine.

This is on windows 7, 64-bit.