How to Turn Off Advanced Graphics in Firefox

Mozilla Firefox introduced a hardware acceleration feature with Firefox 4. This advanced graphics feature uses your computer's graphics card to render Web pages faster. Firefox's hardware acceleration works fine on most computers, but it might cause problems with certain combinations of graphics cards, hardware drivers or operating systems. Disable this feature in Firefox's options dialog. Firefox won't use your graphics card to render websites and will use the same rendering method as Firefox 3.6 and older versions.

Instructions

1. Click the "Firefox" menu button at the top-left corner of the Mozilla Firefox window and select "Options" at the right side of the menu that appears.

2. Click the "Advanced" icon at the top of the options window.

3. Select the "General" tab under the Advanced icon.

4. Uncheck the "Use Hardware Acceleration Where Available" check box by clicking it.

5. Click "OK."

6. Close all open Firefox windows and re-open Firefox.

Tips & Warnings

• You can disable all images in Firefox by clicking the "Content" icon at the top of the options window and clearing the "Load Images Automatically" checkbox.

References

• Mozilla: How Do I Upgrade My Graphics Drivers?
• Indiana University: How Do I Disable Images in My Web Browser?