Display issues caused by Pale Moon
Posted: 2016-09-28, 21:14
Hello,
Recently, my computer has suffered from a few brief "black outs". Specifically, the monitor would go black before reopening up. In the past, this hadn't been an issue as things resumed normally after. But recently, some odd things had been happening. I thought my integrated graphics card was going bad. I was able to determine that it only happened when trying to load large images. Like... 13,000x14,000 and such. These are the symptoms that occur after the screen's no longer black:
1. Some browsers, such as Chromium, glitch out in appearance. Flickering at the time constantly.
2. Some games suffer from flickering as well. Minetest is one such example. Opening it up and looking at the top left corner, I can see some text that keeps flickering in and out.
3. Some graphics programs, such as Krita, are smeared and are practically unusable. Although some, like Gimp, operate perfectly normal.
4. Some video programs, such as Kdenlive, operate mostly fine, except that the video preview is half black and video does not play.
5. There is absolutely no video playback except on Chromium. I can watch videos in there just fine, save for the flickering of the browser. However, on other browsers, no video. Sound yes, but not video. The same is true for videos on my computer as well.
I've recently determined that the ultimate cause of the issue was Pale Moon. How I found out was: I pretty much loaded the URL with the largescale image that caused an issue before onto other browsers that I have. Absolutely none of them give me the blackout issue. It's only Pale Moon. Also, the issues I describe persist even after closing and reopening the browser. The only thing that fixes it, as far as I was able to gather, is a reboot.
Is there any reason for this? A friend of mine suggested there's some kind of incapatibility somewhere.
Recently, my computer has suffered from a few brief "black outs". Specifically, the monitor would go black before reopening up. In the past, this hadn't been an issue as things resumed normally after. But recently, some odd things had been happening. I thought my integrated graphics card was going bad. I was able to determine that it only happened when trying to load large images. Like... 13,000x14,000 and such. These are the symptoms that occur after the screen's no longer black:
1. Some browsers, such as Chromium, glitch out in appearance. Flickering at the time constantly.
2. Some games suffer from flickering as well. Minetest is one such example. Opening it up and looking at the top left corner, I can see some text that keeps flickering in and out.
3. Some graphics programs, such as Krita, are smeared and are practically unusable. Although some, like Gimp, operate perfectly normal.
4. Some video programs, such as Kdenlive, operate mostly fine, except that the video preview is half black and video does not play.
5. There is absolutely no video playback except on Chromium. I can watch videos in there just fine, save for the flickering of the browser. However, on other browsers, no video. Sound yes, but not video. The same is true for videos on my computer as well.
I've recently determined that the ultimate cause of the issue was Pale Moon. How I found out was: I pretty much loaded the URL with the largescale image that caused an issue before onto other browsers that I have. Absolutely none of them give me the blackout issue. It's only Pale Moon. Also, the issues I describe persist even after closing and reopening the browser. The only thing that fixes it, as far as I was able to gather, is a reboot.
Is there any reason for this? A friend of mine suggested there's some kind of incapatibility somewhere.