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Scrolling pages turns text & pics into long unreadable lines on all sites, including in this question as I typed it

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It happens vertically & horizontally; in passive viewing & active use (such as while typing). Text & pictures devolve into long lines (think paint dripping down a wall in streams). I took a few screen shots to illustrate. Just started doing this after an update 2 days ago. After trying unsuccessfully trying to solve the problem I removed Firefox from my computer & reinstalled it, but the same thing continues to happen. I tried opening the same sites & email messages & doing all the same activities in another browser to double check & found none of the same problems. I tried out many programs on my own computer to determine if it was a problem specific to my computer & found none of those problems (in Word, in Adobe, using various image & text programs). It seems to be specific to Mozilla Firefox -- & seems to have to do with an upgrade of some kind on Sept 22nd, 2016.

It happens vertically & horizontally; in passive viewing & active use (such as while typing). Text & pictures devolve into long lines (think paint dripping down a wall in streams). I took a few screen shots to illustrate. Just started doing this after an update 2 days ago. After trying unsuccessfully trying to solve the problem I removed Firefox from my computer & reinstalled it, but the same thing continues to happen. I tried opening the same sites & email messages & doing all the same activities in another browser to double check & found none of the same problems. I tried out many programs on my own computer to determine if it was a problem specific to my computer & found none of those problems (in Word, in Adobe, using various image & text programs). It seems to be specific to Mozilla Firefox -- & seems to have to do with an upgrade of some kind on Sept 22nd, 2016.

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That was very good work. Well done. Please flag your last post as Solved Problem so others will know.

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I tried to include a screenshot with my issue but it didn't post. I'll try to post another screenshot.

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I found a solution to this problem in another user's post, for anyone else dealing with this issue:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1117546#answer-864339

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That was very good work. Well done. Please flag your last post as Solved Problem so others will know.