Screen Display Issues - hardware? software? appl. software?
 

Firefox is messed up pretty bad (shown on the RH side below) - note lack of all the gray boxes. Other sites are even worse.

Yet, Chrome (on the left) seems to work fine.

Yet again, MS Outlook seems messed up a little bit (as tho it is running in some sort of reduced resolution or low color bit mode).

other apps seem ok - Word, Excel, iTunes...


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1305679368.gif

I can't seem to find anything in the Firefox Options that is wrong (and the secret squirrel, hidden options on a web page looking thingie are beyond my ability to decipher).

LOL not again! go find an 8 yo and have him fix this thing once and for all!

which version of firefox?

Pages not loading correctly in Firefox - Geeks to Go Forums

see post 4.

bollocks, double post.

4.0.1

I am looking at your profile link now...

Thanks

nope - not a profile issue

You seem to have ad-block installed and active on the forums. It looks like the client-side javascript/CSS files (that do a lot of the layout work) are not being loaded properly.

I'd disable adblock for the site and try again.

If that doesn't work, try a force-reload (ctrl-shift-R) to see if that fixes it, or clear your cache and reload.

$0.02

will try - it used to work fine until...

wouldn't starting mozilla in safe mode disable the ad-block?? it looked just the same when I did that

perhaps the java settings in the options\content are disabled. its not a hardware issue. perhaps java needs to be reinstalled.

until?

until it all started -- a few hours ago or maybe it was yesterday


will try to re-install java

Ctl-shift-R while viewing this thread did not change anything

Java has NOTHING to do with it... Java isn't being used at all.

Javascript is NOT Java.

fine. but there is a javascript enable box where i said to look. hang on, i'll disable it and see what things look like.

javascript disabled
block pop ups disabled

I'll restart Firefox to see if it needs that...

Did you clear your cache?

nope; no change

javascript disabled changed nothing. interesting.

I went to the Add-Ons menu to see if there was a popup blocker installed - did not see one, tho I know I used to have one; maybe it did not survive the new computer or upgrad to Ffox 4

BUT... I did note that the buttons on the plugins "page" or menu are messed up - they have two line drawings or outlines around them, and are not colored.

that seems not to be on the internet but inside Firefox...???

See if you can manually download this file: http://forums.pelicanparts.com/clientscript/vbulletin_important.css?v=387

That is the main file that determines the layout of the site. Odds are it's been corrupted in some manner, and is cached in your system.

And I run with JS disabled on here, and it works fine.

oh yeh - the cache - will look for how to do that

is that - clear recent history on the Tools menu?

maybe your firefox install is waxed.

i chose not to install the latest firefox because a couple of the add-ons i use all the time are not supported.

If stuff in FF is messed up, you might want to try and just download and reinstall FF from scratch.

Yes... in there should be "cache".

I can click on it and see the text; Right click does not offer a download option

how would I manually download it? and what folder would I put it in?

tools\options\advanced\network\clear now i #think#.

clearing history does not wipe the cache.

The latest FF has a clear history and opens up a new window where you can select what specific history you want cleared. One of the options is "cache".

Done & rebooted FF - no change

should I have rebooted the computer at any time after making the changes above? (i did not)

rebooting shouldn't matter.

I cleared all the history for Today - can do it all totally.

did not see the cache option there - will look again

hey - this is a good way to get people to move to chrome

ah, cool.

ok, that was under Details - I left my cookies and cleared "everything" cache & active xxx (forgot what the xxx was)

i'd try uninstalling firefox, reboot the machine and reinstall it.

no change - did not reboot FireFox tho


BTW - this is NOT the only site affected

i see an option for site preferences, too.

I uninstalled firefox, downloaded a new copy & and reinstalled it earilier today

did not reboot the machine in between tho...

should I do it again with a reboot?

BTW - troubleshooting information shows:

Direct2D EnabledBlocked on your graphics driver. Try updating your graphics driver to version 10.6 or newer.

mean anything? ring any bells?

suggests just a speed increase possibility to me

this sounds more like a .dll issue.

where did you get the troubleshooting information? perhaps some .dll in your graphics driver software is causing problems. sounds far fetched, but i've seen much much worse.