Firefox: Attack of the Black Boxes

Tyler · 11-17-2014

So... Lately I've been getting these black boxes appearing on my Firefox browser. Below are a couple examples of times it has occurred. I feel that the problem is connected with Adblock. A couple times the text "Block..." has appeared during the black boxes. I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how to fix this issue? Thanks.

MattKan · 11-17-2014

Erm have you tried re-installing Adblock?

Tyler · 11-17-2014

Posted by MattKan

Erm have you tried re-installing Adblock?

I think I was wrong actually. I just removed Adblock and went back to the Yahoo homepage and a black box appeared. I did exit out of my browser after uninstalling it too. I really don't have that many addons. Unless a plugin is causing this? I do not fully understand what plugins are or how they activate. Right now the only active addon is Classic Toolbar buttons.

5hift · 11-18-2014

More like Attack on Black Box. (Well placed Colossal Titan)

Huehehehue.

OT: What browser plugins/extensions are you using?

Tyler · 11-18-2014

Posted by 5hift

More like Attack on Black Box. (Well placed Colossal Titan)

Huehehehue.

OT: What browser plugins/extensions are you using?

Spoiler

5hift · 11-18-2014

Mmmmk, I see Adblock isn't on there...

Are you seeing these boxes on any other applications?

Did you try toying around with your pop-up blocker?

If not I'm not entirely sure what the deal is here...

Tyler · 11-18-2014

Posted by 5hift

Mmmmk, I see Adblock isn't on there...

Are you seeing these boxes on any other applications?

Did you try toying around with your pop-up blocker?

If not I'm not entirely sure what the deal is here...

Oh yeah. I forgot to add the extensions. Sorry, my reading/grammar have been terrible lately.

My active extensions are Adblock Plus 2.6.6 and Classic Toolbar Buttons 1.4.3. I don't think the Adblock is the problem anymore though since there was a black box without it on my homepage. I'm trying to stay awake as I type this.

Distorted · 11-18-2014

ROFL THOSE DARN BOXES!

Ash Ketchum · 11-20-2014

Ya uninstall firefox or try their Beta/nightly versions of Firefox

Honestly its probably that skin thats making those boxes

Emera · 11-20-2014

Do the following:

Disable all of your extensions
Revert back to the default skin

If it's still doing it after this, then you can deduce that it's not the fault of an extension or a skin. It could be Firefox playing up when it comes to rendering things with hardware acceleration enabled, so try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox and see if that makes a difference.

As mentioned above, uninstall Firefox all together if you have to.

Also, have you tried doing a quick Google? Take a read of these.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1022912
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1022116 (See bottom solution)

Tyler · 12-09-2014

Well... The black boxes are fixed I think, but now my Firefox tab freezes on the Destiny website whenever it attempts to load a character model.

Ghettoicedtea · 12-09-2014

thats probably an issue with the website devs. Not the browser.

Emera · 12-10-2014

Posted by Tyler

Well... The black boxes are fixed I think, but now my Firefox tab freezes on the Destiny website whenever it attempts to load a character model.

Is the site trying to render 3D models?

Tyler · 12-10-2014

Posted by Emera

Is the site trying to render 3D models?

Correctamundo. It attempts to load the 3D model of the users' Destiny character, but the page freezes up. Before this happened, I had launched Firefox in safe mode and the boxes appeared to be gone. Then, it prompted up a message saying I was using an older version of Firefox so I updated and now this happened.

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Tyler Dark Desert Fox Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: United States, Ohio Posts: 5,720	Firefox: Attack of the Black Boxes So... Lately I've been getting these black boxes appearing on my Firefox browser. Below are a couple examples of times it has occurred. I feel that the problem is connected with Adblock. A couple times the text "Block..." has appeared during the black boxes. I was wondering if anyone has any knowledge of how to fix this issue? Thanks.

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MattKan the KattMan Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: United States Posts: 4,204	Erm have you tried re-installing Adblock?

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5hift ✔️TURBO✔️VERIFIED✔️ Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Larunda Relay Posts: 6,481	More like Attack on Black Box. (Well placed Colossal Titan) Huehehehue. OT: What browser plugins/extensions are you using?

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Distorted Banned Join Date: May 2014 Location: The Grotto Posts: 1,345	ROFL THOSE DARN BOXES!

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Ash Ketchum Veritired ✔️ Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4,441	Ya uninstall firefox or try their Beta/nightly versions of Firefox Honestly its probably that skin thats making those boxes

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Emera Nerd Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,825	Do the following: Disable all of your extensions Revert back to the default skin If it's still doing it after this, then you can deduce that it's not the fault of an extension or a skin. It could be Firefox playing up when it comes to rendering things with hardware acceleration enabled, so try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox and see if that makes a difference. As mentioned above, uninstall Firefox all together if you have to. Also, have you tried doing a quick Google? Take a read of these. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1022912 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1022116 (See bottom solution)

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Tyler Dark Desert Fox Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: United States, Ohio Posts: 5,720	Well... The black boxes are fixed I think, but now my Firefox tab freezes on the Destiny website whenever it attempts to load a character model.

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Ghettoicedtea (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ dank meme ☚(ﾟヮﾟ☚) Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Utah Posts: 5,261	thats probably an issue with the website devs. Not the browser.