Enabled hardware acceleration in version 33+ causing everything to render in solid black on Intel HD3000 (on both 2 years old and latest drivers).

Question

Hello,
I'm experiencing troubles with Firefox versions 33+. Enabling hardware acceleration makes everything render in solid black, even on clean profile, even the "Choose profile" and "Firefox already running" dialogs.
Problem started when developers started to work on MSE.
Also the font rendering is doing wild things - some characters like 'l' (small L), 'i' and '-' at certain font sizes are not rendered at all and some characters like '=' are rendered partially like '-'. Of course with hardware acceleration disabled.
This is pretty annoying, because it appears in places I use a lot like address bar and youtube HTML5 player, leading to those render failures:
'Exit full screen' renders as 'Ex t fu screen'
or
'https://www.google.com/search?q=mozilla+firefox&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-nightly&channel=fflb' renders as 'https://www.google.com/search?q-mozilla+firefox&ie-utf 8&oe=utf 8&aq-t&rls-org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client-firefox nightly&channel-fflb'
Is there anything I can do about it?
I've tried to update graphic drivers through my laptop manufacturer official sources and through intel's website, but neither did help.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I had the same thing with a nvidia gpu (660GTX) and ff nightly 33 .... every thing had big black pulsing borders like the css animations code had gone mental and the whole screen was flickery .. and all the text was clipping when scrolling creating trails .. I went into the gpu settings disabled acceleration and it worked perfectly after that so I can confirm that 3D accellerations has issue in 33.