(the live CD on the website)
The contents of Firefox's URL bar, instead of showing the text of the URL, shows a black and/or gray bar where the text should be. The text is still there -- it can be selected and copied -- it just can't be seen. This happens both when running from the live CD, and after installation. Everything else (having to do with the display, and otherwise) works fine and is perfectly normal. The problem doesn't occur when running from the Xubuntu 14.04 live CD. Is there a way to fix it?
Thanks.
On 01/01/2015 03:19 PM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
The contents of Firefox's URL bar, instead of showing the text of the URL, shows a black and/or gray bar where the text should be. The text is still there -- it can be selected and copied -- it just can't be seen. This happens both when running from the live CD, and after installation. Everything else (having to do with the display, and otherwise) works fine and is perfectly normal. The problem doesn't occur when running from the Xubuntu 14.04 live CD. Is there a way to fix it?
A little more info:
I installed XFCE to see if it happens there as well; it does.
I uninstalled Firefox and installed the Firefox from Ubuntuzilla; it still happens.
It doesn't happen in Chromium. (Unfortunately, the user wants to use Firefox.)
Any ideas?
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On 01/02/2015 09:09 AM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 01/01/2015 03:19 PM, Dan Youngquist wrote:
The contents of Firefox's URL bar, instead of showing the text of the URL, shows a black and/or gray bar where the text should be. The text is still there -- it can be selected and copied -- it just can't be seen. This happens both when running from the live CD, and after installation. Everything else (having to do with the display, and otherwise) works fine and is perfectly normal. The problem doesn't occur when running from the Xubuntu 14.04 live CD. Is there a way to fix it?
A little more info:
I installed XFCE to see if it happens there as well; it does.
I uninstalled Firefox and installed the Firefox from Ubuntuzilla; it still happens.
It doesn't happen in Chromium. (Unfortunately, the user wants to use Firefox.)
Any ideas?
Not sure what the problem is and honestly haven't spent time on it, but just googling for "firefox url black bar" brings up several posts you can look into. Hope this helps :-)
Cheers Michele
On 01/01/2015 07:46 PM, Michele Calgaro wrote:
Not sure what the problem is and honestly haven't spent time on it, but just googling for "firefox url black bar" brings up several posts you can look into. Hope this helps :-)
Thanks, it did help. I had googled it before without finding a solution, but found it when trying again.
The solution is very simple: In about:config, set gfx.xrender.enabled to false.
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