[SOLVED] I've got a black line in my Firefox address bar
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type about:config[Enter]
Promise to be careful
In the Search Bar type gfx.xrender.enabled
Right-click (F12) and Toggle to make it false
Exit Firefox. Open Firefox again.
Thanks Habitual. Your "promise to be careful" made me nervous. lol So I type "about:config" in the terminal? Then I am careful. Then in the search bar of Mozilla I type the gfx...thing. Then I right click (or hit F12) and Toggle to make it false. (What's "it"?)Then I exit Firefox and open it again and the black line is gone?
Oh great, this is working for everybody but me!
Last edited by Gregg Bell; 06-11-2014 at 12:12 AM.
Reason: to have some fun
Nope, not in the terminal. That's your problem. You type about:config in the navigation bar of your browser. Then brace yourself for a rather hefty list.
jdk
(What's "it"?)Then I exit Firefox and open it again and the black line is gone?
"it" specifically is the configuration element called "gfx.xrender.enabled"
Open a new tab in your browser and type "about:config" without the quotes.
Search for gfx.xrender.enabled
Right mouse click this value in your config editor and select Toggle.
This will turn the element's property value to false
Close the configuration editor tab.
Restart browser and you should be good to go.
a picture is worth a 1000 words
Here's what your may look like before changing this property's element value to false.
Nope, not in the terminal. That's your problem. You type about:config in the navigation bar of your browser. Then brace yourself for a rather hefty list.
jdk
Thanks LZM jdk. You saved me, and Uncle Bob, from untold misery.
"it" specifically is the configuration element called "gfx.xrender.enabled"
Open a new tab in your browser and type "about:config" without the quotes.
Search for gfx.xrender.enabled
Right mouse click this value in your config editor and select Toggle.
This will turn the element's property value to false
Close the configuration editor tab.
Restart browser and you should be good to go.
a picture is worth a 1000 words
Here's what your may look like before changing this property's element value to false.
Great stuff, Habitual! It worked perfectly. Before, I thought you were just telling me to be careful (in a general way) and so I got a little freaked. Now I can see what you were saying. Now I can start using Firefox (I'd been using Chrome because of the black line) again. Lots of people tried to solve this. You must be pretty good to be the one who did. Thanks tons!
Great stuff, Habitual! It worked perfectly. Before, I thought you were just telling me to be careful (in a general way) and so I got a little freaked. Now I can see what you were saying. Now I can start using Firefox (I'd been using Chrome because of the black line) again. Lots of people tried to solve this. You must be pretty good to be the one who did. Thanks tons!
type about:config[Enter]
Promise to be careful
In the Search Bar type gfx.xrender.enabled
Right-click (F12) and Toggle to make it false
Exit Firefox. Open Firefox again.
"it" specifically is the configuration element called "gfx.xrender.enabled"
Open a new tab in your browser and type "about:config" without the quotes.
Search for gfx.xrender.enabled
Right mouse click this value in your config editor and select Toggle.
This will turn the element's property value to false
Close the configuration editor tab.
Restart browser and you should be good to go.
a picture is worth a 1000 words
Here's what your may look like before changing this property's element value to false.
for my old intel gfx card I found a better way to work around this bug: switch from SNA to UXA acceleration. How to do this exactly differs in distributions, but usually you create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the content given here:
This way you may fix graphics bugs elsewhere (for me, video playback works better with uxa, too) and still have hardware acceleration in firefox (much smoother scrolling, for example).
type about:config[Enter]
Promise to be careful
In the Search Bar type gfx.xrender.enabled
Right-click (F12) and Toggle to make it false
Exit Firefox. Open Firefox again.
Just to thank Habitual, and let others know that this ^^^ worked for me.
It only happened after a routine update, so not sure what went wrong, but fine again now
When Firefox 40 came out this quit working for me and all my other clients. All I got was a blank firefox window. I had to go in and create a new profile and go back in and set enable. Then I went into themes and added FXChrome theme. Now it works again.
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Then in the search bar of Mozilla I type the gfx...thing. Then I right click (or hit F12) and Toggle to make it false. (What's "it"?)Then I exit Firefox and open it again and the black line is gone?
Better way
