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    Weird rendering in Firefox --- M17x R4

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Steel_Addiction, Apr 19, 2013.

  1. Steel_Addiction

    Steel_Addiction Newbie

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    I've had my m17x for about a month now and ever since I got it in firefox and IE there are some weird boxes/rendering that covers up part of the pages when scrolling down or up, and if I do scroll away from it and come back it's gone. Only sites with some kind of image will do it, or sites that have floating advertisements.

    I have the latest AMD Drivers (9.12.0.0) and am in Dedicated graphics mode
    I also have the latest java and flash installed

    Specs:

    M17x r4
    i7 3610
    Radeon 7970m
    12gb Ram
    240gb SSD
    Windows 7 ultimate 64bit

    I have attached a screenshot to show what I'm experiencing.

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    Steel_Addiction, Apr 19, 2013
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  2. Prolixious

    Prolixious Notebook Deity

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    I had (and still have) this issue: I think it has to do with Firefox's coding. It doesn't happen in Chrome.
     
    Prolixious, Apr 19, 2013
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  3. Lakart

    Lakart Notebook Consultant

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    I had a similar problem to this a while back and the way I disabled it was by going into the advanced options and disabling hardware acceleration...I think.
     
    Lakart, Apr 20, 2013
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  4. Steel_Addiction

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    Are you referring to flash? I just disabled hardware acc on flash, and so far I havn't seen this problem, knock on wood, but before it was kinda random, it didn't always happen with the same sites, so I will have to see how it goes.

    ***Edit***
    3 minutes later....

    It still happens with hardware acc disabled. Bummer


    ***Edit2***

    I just moved over to Chrome and I have to say that it seems faster and better scrolling, more fluid, and I went to the sites where the problems persisted and it hasn't showed up.

    I think i'll just have to chock it up to Firefox's problem.
     
    Steel_Addiction, Apr 20, 2013
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  5. shinob!

    shinob! Notebook Consultant

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    Definitely Firefox browser issue,it happened to me too.Using IE & Chrome the problem was absent.
     
    shinob!, Apr 22, 2013
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  6. Alienware-L_Porras

    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    I've seen this also, I moved to chrome and the issues were gone.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Apr 23, 2013
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