Firefox images sometimes get corrupt

hello im having a issue with firefox
sometimes when i switch tabs or just view images the images get corrupt
some of them are getting black things covering most of the images and rarely some crap (like a upside down blue triangle)
and when i was seeing many pages on file extensions and saw wikipedia the image got somehow corrupt, again, the black thing but in the bottom some white with some random blue
im using windows 10 build 9926
here is troubleshooting info
"application": {
"name": "Firefox",
"version": "36.0",
"buildID": "20150222232811",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0",
"updateChannel": "release",
"supportURL": "https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/36.0/WINNT/en-US/",
"numTotalWindows": 1,
"numRemoteWindows": 0
"lockedPreferences": {},
"graphics": {
"numTotalWindows": 1,
"numAcceleratedWindows": 1,
"windowLayerManagerType": "Direct3D 11",
"windowLayerManagerRemote": true,
"adapterDescription": "NVIDIA GeForce G100",
"adapterVendorID": "0x10de",
"adapterDeviceID": "0x06e6",
"adapterSubsysID": "00000000",
"adapterRAM": "512",
"adapterDrivers": "nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um",
"driverVersion": "9.18.13.4144",
"driverDate": "2-3-2015",
"adapterDescription2": "",
"adapterVendorID2": "",
"adapterDeviceID2": "",
"adapterSubsysID2": "",
"adapterRAM2": "",
"adapterDrivers2": "",
"driverVersion2": "",
"driverDate2": "",
"isGPU2Active": false,
"direct2DEnabled": true,
"directWriteEnabled": true,
"directWriteVersion": "10.0.9926.6",
"webglRenderer": "Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce G100 Direct3D9Ex vs_3_0 ps_3_0)",
"info": {
"AzureCanvasBackend": "direct2d",
"AzureSkiaAccelerated": 0,
"AzureFallbackCanvasBackend": "cairo",
"AzureContentBackend": "direct2d"
"javaScript": {
"incrementalGCEnabled": true
"accessibility": {
"isActive": false,
"forceDisabled": 0
"libraryVersions": {
"NSPR": {
"minVersion": "4.10.7",
"version": "4.10.7"
"NSS": {
"minVersion": "3.17.4 Basic ECC",
"version": "3.17.4 Basic ECC"
"NSSUTIL": {
"minVersion": "3.17.4",
"version": "3.17.4"
"NSSSSL": {
"minVersion": "3.17.4 Basic ECC",
"version": "3.17.4 Basic ECC"
"NSSSMIME": {
"minVersion": "3.17.4 Basic ECC",
"version": "3.17.4 Basic ECC"
"userJS": {
"exists": false
"extensions": [
"name": "Adblock Plus",
"version": "2.6.7",
"isActive": true,
"id": "{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}"
"name": "Flash and Video Download",
"version": "1.68",
"isActive": true,
"id": "{bee6eb20-01e0-ebd1-da83-080329fb9a3a}"
"experiments": [],
"modifiedPreferences": {}
}

You can try to disable OMTC and leave hardware acceleration in Firefox enabled.
*about:config page: layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = false
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar.
You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
*Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

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