Hello all,
Recently, my PM has started to display a little oddly, particularly with the UI elements rather than sites themselves. Fonts seem to be blurry and the task buttons (minimise, maximise and close) aren't rendering at all:
- Pale Moon at startup
- UI1.png (64.61 KiB) Viewed 2151 times
However, If I go into options and switch HWA off, it fixes itself:
- After Hardware accel is disabled
- UI2.png (56.57 KiB) Viewed 2151 times
Particularly note that the fonts and UI change quite a bit and look much cleaner (The greasemonkey and Android icons are really evident of this). The interesting thing, however, is that if I then ENable HWA again everything remains fixed until the next time I close and open PM. I got this issue on PM 12.1 and it persists after upgrading to 12.2. Furthermore, I have firefox installed side by side and it doesn't have the issue. I tested it on a brand new, empty profile and had the same thing.
One more thing, which might be of interest, is that the "blurry fonts" seem present even in the profile manager. Compare PM's and Firefox's:
- PM is "blurry" whereas Firefox isn't?
Now this all started happening after I upgraded my video card driver to Nvidia's 301.42 so I suspect it's somewhat related. I apologise that I haven't had the time to rollback the installation to confirm this, but for whatever reason PM and Firefox seem to be acting differently. I've checked my (Nvidia) control panel and there's no firefox or PM specific settings being applied or anything like that and that's as far as I've got.
EDIT: The cause is FXAA, a setting that can be disabled in the nvidia Control panel
