Firefox 16 & 17 rendering problem

NewishMacGuy · Dec 22, 2012, 11:10 AM

Is anyone else experiencing this rendering problem (see attached photo)? It happens to me everyday on a variety of different websites with no common theme that I can tell. To correct it I have to restart the browser and after an indeterminate period of browsing it will happen again.

What you see in the photo tends to happen more on shopping websites (particularly Amazon.com), whereas on other websites buttons and dropdown menus will be empty or just not work.

This has been happening ever since I upgraded to Firefox 16, on multiple computers. I have tried (clean) re-installing and nothing seems to work. This doesn't happen with Safari or Opera on the same systems with the same plug-ins. The only thing I've changed in about:config is the tabs on top view, as I can't stand that view.

Any ideas at all?

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NewishMacGuy · Dec 23, 2012, 10:57 AM

OK, so I tried a cold reset via the Help Menu, but I can't see how this would differ from a clean install. Hopefully it'll work, but we'll see. Any other suggestions would be appreciated!

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wrldwzrd89 · Dec 23, 2012, 02:48 PM

I had this happen before. The cause may be any number of things: network timeouts, resource load failures, problems on the server, a custom stylesheet.

NewishMacGuy · Dec 23, 2012, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by wrldwzrd89

I had this happen before. The cause may be any number of things: network timeouts, resource load failures, problems on the server, a custom stylesheet.

Has it happened just once or twice? I get these and other errors all the time now, sometimes several times a day. And I get "could not load the page" errors a lot too. What's going on?

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wrldwzrd89 · Dec 23, 2012, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by NewishMacGuy

Has it happened just once or twice? I get these and other errors all the time now, sometimes several times a day. And I get "could not load the page" errors a lot too. What's going on?

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Yes, it was just once. The cause was a resource load failure - in this case, the style sheets used by the site were not loading properly.

bryan.cfii · Jan 9, 2013, 01:36 PM

Personally, I haven't had that problem ever. How solid is your nework?

wrldwzrd89 · Jan 9, 2013, 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bryan.cfii

Personally, I haven't had that problem ever. How solid is your nework?

Wireless is flaky. Wired is solid. Don't remember which I was using at the time.

Dec 22, 2012, 11:10 AM	#1
NewishMacGuy macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2007	Firefox 16 & 17 rendering problem Is anyone else experiencing this rendering problem (see attached photo)? It happens to me everyday on a variety of different websites with no common theme that I can tell. To correct it I have to restart the browser and after an indeterminate period of browsing it will happen again. What you see in the photo tends to happen more on shopping websites (particularly Amazon.com), whereas on other websites buttons and dropdown menus will be empty or just not work. This has been happening ever since I upgraded to Firefox 16, on multiple computers. I have tried (clean) re-installing and nothing seems to work. This doesn't happen with Safari or Opera on the same systems with the same plug-ins. The only thing I've changed in about:config is the tabs on top view, as I can't stand that view. Any ideas at all? __________________ 2009 C2D Alu iMac \| 2011 cMBP-15 \| 2011 cMBP-13 \| 2x iBookG4-12 \| iBookG4-14 \| 2x ATV 1G \| 2x iPhone 1G \| 2x iPhone 3GS \| 2x iPhone 4S \| 2x iPod 5.5G \| iPod Photo \| iPod Nano 1G \| iPod Nano 2G
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NewishMacGuy Thread Starter macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2007	OK, so I tried a cold reset via the Help Menu, but I can't see how this would differ from a clean install. Hopefully it'll work, but we'll see. Any other suggestions would be appreciated! --- __________________ 2009 C2D Alu iMac \| 2011 cMBP-15 \| 2011 cMBP-13 \| 2x iBookG4-12 \| iBookG4-14 \| 2x ATV 1G \| 2x iPhone 1G \| 2x iPhone 3GS \| 2x iPhone 4S \| 2x iPod 5.5G \| iPod Photo \| iPod Nano 1G \| iPod Nano 2G
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