Firefox has a messed-up, glitchy, jumbled display.

Within the last week or so, Firefox has been very chaotic and unpredictable. It will load pages that resemble the first couple times you try to boot-up an NES game. I'd attach a screenshot but I don't know how with this submission form so I'll just assume you know what I'm talking about here. This even happens to my toolbars; I have to mouse over something to clear it up, but then it goes right back to hell once I load another page.
Sometimes I'll load another page somehow and the one I was just looking at doesn't go away. I have to scroll or whatever to make it go away.
I'm also having issues, even as I type this, where Firefox has to stop for a few seconds, the little color wheel of death appears, THEN everything I just typed will appear. It did that just as I typed these last two sentences. TWICE.

Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

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