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    Firefox HWA alt/title text issue on M11x r3?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by CZroe, Mar 11, 2012.

  1. CZroe

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    Am I the only R3 owner having trouble with pop-up tooltip text in Firefox? For example: Go to the listing of threads on this forum and hover your mouse pointer over a thread. A preview of the thread's original post should pop up next to the mouse pointer.

    I'm using the latest drivers from Dell's site. It does this in FF9, 10, and 11 beta. Turning off hardware acceleration in FF's options restores the pop-up text immediately, but turning it back on and restarting causes it to quit working again.

    This feels like Flash HWA corrupting certain Flash videos on my R1 when OC was enabled and I was the only one complaining despite it affecting many (all?) R1 users. It seems like a glitch related to Optimus, so it might apply to the R2 as well.

    I don't know about you, but I'd like to use whatever HWA Firefox supports. My theory: It is likely trying to use the nVidia chip for acceleration when only the Intel graphics are active.
     
    CZroe, Mar 11, 2012
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