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Thread: Grey icons and missing text

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    Grey icons and missing text

    I am finding that both Firefox and Thunderbird (on Ubuntu 9.04) are becoming increasingly difficult to work with. Please look at the screenshots that are attached. You will see that many of the icons on the menu bars are obscured by grey bars.
    Often lines of text are missing but re-appear if I scroll up and down. I have seen similar reports and have tried "zoom text only" and gone to Preferences, appearance, fonts, details, hinting full to no effect. It seems to be getting worse. Certainly during any session more grey bits appear and the text becomes more corrupt but also it seems to be worse day by day. I took Screenshot 1 about 10 minutes ago and screenshot 2 1 minute ago.
    Any help will greatly appreciated
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    Re: Grey icons and missing text

    Two possible solutions, though neither may work.
    1. If you are using compiz 3d desktop, disable that and try again.
    or
    2 Go to Firefox Preferences and in the Content page choose the Fonts and Colours section Advanced and deselect the box to let pages choose their own fonts.

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    Re: Grey icons and missing text

    Thanks for the suggestions. I am using the Gnome desktop and the desktop is affected too, but only after about an hour - see latest screenshot . I am using an IBM X30 with a dual boot - Windows is not affected.
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