Screen flashes or flickers when scrolling

When scrolling through web pages, my screen flashes or flickers. Turns white and then the page displays. Not a major issue, just more of an annoyance than anything. I have turned my phone off twice to see if that helps and doesn’t seem to change anything. Any ideas?

Hi All,
I just got back my iPad after diagnosis from apple care. They have said it's a software issue and nothing related to hardware. Moreover, I checked a few iPads on display at an apple store and still found the same issue.
Cheers,
Mahesh

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Screen is flickering when scrolling (IE does not). I tried disabling add-ons and tried safe mode - neither helped. Running Win 7 Pro 64bit. Uninstalled via 'Programs and Features'. Download and reinstalled Firefox. Now it shows all my previous settings: menu bar, bookmarks bar, etc. Question: how did it get that stuff back if it 'cleanly' uninstalled? Question: how do I know it didn't pick up it's old 'bad habit' from the previous settings? I am an experienced PC user but not Firefox expert. Looking for help lest I have to ditch Firefox completely...

Hello,
Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration. Since this feature was added to Firefox, it has gradually improved, but there still are a few glitches.
You might need to restart Firefox in order for this to take effect, so save all work first (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.).
Then perform these steps:
#Open Firefox ''Options'' window (''Preferences'' on Mac or Linux) as follows:
#* In Firefox 29.0 and above, click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and select ''Options'' for Windows or ''Preferences'' on Mac or Linux.
#* In Firefox 28.0 and previous versions, click the orange Firefox button at the top left, then select the "Options" button, or, if there is no Firefox button at the top, go to Tools > Options.
#In the Firefox Options (or Preferences) window, click the ''Advanced'' tab, then select ''General''.
#In the settings list, you should find the ''Use hardware acceleration when available'' checkbox. Uncheck this checkbox.
#Now, restart Firefox and see if the problems persist.
Additionally, please check for updates for your graphics driver by following the steps mentioned in the following Knowledge base articles:
* [[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]]
* [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]
Did this fix your problems? Please report back to us!
Thank you.

Flash CS4 crash when scrolling

Hi,
Today one of our artists started experiencing a crash in Flash CS4 Professional when scrolling the workspace around in one of his .fla files. All he has to do is hold down the spacebar and scroll around with the mouse; or use the scrollbars to scroll around. It has crashed about 10 times in the last hour, and we copied the file over to another machine and saw the crash there as well. We've only seen it occur with one particular file.
The machines are both Intel Core i7 machines with 8GB of RAM and two different video cards, one running Windows 7 and the other running Vista; and the crashes cause the Adobe "let me report this crash to the mothership" dialog box, so I don't think it's video card driver related; I think it's just a bug in Flash Professional. We're running version 10.0.2 with no updates available to Flash Professional when choosing "Updates..." from the Help menu.
Anybody else seen this? Any workarounds? Any way to get Adobe to fix it?
Thanks - BD

Hi Jen,
I'm putting the file up on our website for you to grab.
Please treat this file confidentially.
Point your web browser to http://www.torpexgames.com/adobeflashcs4 where the username is "addeden" and the password is "cs4bluetop".
We included the fonts we're using, too.
Thanks,
Bill Dugan
President
Torpex Games
[email protected]
425 644 4263

[unsolvable] ff 3.6 +nspluginwrapper-flash = flickering when scrolling

Im using nspluginwrapper-flash cuz 64-bit flashplugin was always very laggy for me.
I'm getting pretty annoying flickering of every flash content when scrolling page.
Checked with:
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-1
nspluginwrapper-flash-10.0.42.34
nspluginwrapper-flash-10_1_p2_linux_121709
+ with removed ~/.mozilla
This problem exists only with firefox, every other browser is working well.
Anybody have noticed something like that? Any clue?
Last edited by Vi0L0 (2010-02-03 16:10:35)

Well... i've just downloaded firefox-nightly 3.7a1pre-3 from AUR, and it seems to be fixed - so maybe in next release of ff 3.6.x it will be fixed also.
Unfortunettly not all of my addons are working ... like firebug - good that im not using it more often.
More important is that NoScript and Adblock are working fine.
But well - it's still not a solution.
Edit: Better make bookmarks backup before switching to firefox-nightly... + nspluginwrapper-flash in unstable with it
Still if you know something - please write it here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=90074
Last edited by Vi0L0 (2010-02-03 03:41:02)

Flash content distorts when scrolling and switching tabs.. since FF 13.0.1..

Before describing the issue
Please note from the System Details pane to this post that I have the latest flash, etc.
And Windows updates,are up to date.
==================================================
Issue: Scrolling distorts flash player window (Youtube, hulu, etc.)
Since: FF 13.0.1 update in June. (I posted on the issue under "badly scrambled images".)
Problem is still there with FF 14.0.1
This distortion happens:
# even with just starting the browser (so no bloated cache)
# even with just only one or two tabs open.
And since last week's update to FF 14.01, I have also detected:
Switching to the the tab with flash content will "imprint" the image from the my previous tab on to the flash player. I have to scroll or refresh to get the flash player to show its content.
FYI, none of these flash player problems occur with IE9.
The advise from a regular contributor was to turn off hardware acceleration, but these did not solve this issue.:(
Solutions suggesting disabling all the plugins etc. have not solved the problem either.
So if you can tell me some other way to solve this, I will appreciate it.
Thanks.
Images:
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/ff14scramblesyoutubecon.png/][IMG]http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/4443/ff14scramblesyoutubecon.th.png[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/715/stillscrambledflashcont.png/][IMG]http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6813/stillscrambledflashcont.th.png[/IMG][/URL]

Sorry, it took me a while to give feedback for the suggestions you have given here.
(Please refer to sidebar on the original post for system details.)
I have reset the profile and updated the Nvidia driver. The version of FF is 14.0.1. But it still scrambles the pictures.
On top of scrambling the flash content when scrolling, it has additional problems:
As you can see from the attached image, another tab's content is showing on the youtube flash player. This happens when I have paused the video even for a short time.
I have a suspicion that the combination of Flash and Firefox does some weird things to graphic processing and memory.
(I realize that IE implements Flash differently, but they seem to have this right.)
I might just have to say goodbye to Firefox for a while.
Thanks.

MacBook Pro flickering when scrolling Mac OS X Mavericks

Hello All,
I started noticing the flickering with Mountain Lion, specifically with the last patch before Mavericks. I upgraded to Mavericks and the problem has aggravated. The flickering is really bad in Safari and when using the genie effect and magnification turned on for the Dock. If I turn Safari to full screen, the problem doesn't disappear but it becomes less annoying. In Chrome however, the problem is noticeable but not as annoying as in Safari when in regular sized window. While in Finder, the problem does not happen at all. I tried to see if Maps had the problem but I couldn't see any difference whatsoever in full screen mode or regular sized window. I turned my screen capture software and when I went to review it, everything was perfect in the recording. No flickering whatsoever. So my guess is that it must be some sort of bad code or just needs a tweak. Hopefully the folks at Apple are taking notice of this and rolls out an update soon. If anyone has the same issue, please reply that way the folks at Apple can do something. Thanks.
MBP Mid 2012
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OS X 10.9
2.9 GHz Intel Core i7

Hi Martillo,
I've exactly the same issues on my MBP Mid 2012 i5, and I've already open a similar thread in this forum.
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Flickering when scrolling

I am using the freshly downloaded trial version of Adobe Premiere Elements 13 and am experiencing some problems with the application.
When scrolling the tracks in expert mode, a very annoying flickering appears, even without having loaded large or heavy video clips.
I have also encountered multiple hangs/freezes when working with Titles & Text.
I am running on an iMac 2,5 Ghz i5 with the latest software updates installed, 8gb of memory, SSD drive and an AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics card with 512MB of memory.
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Thanks,
Jan

Jan
That is one strange looking Expert workspace Timeline. Are you seeing the same type of thing in the Quick workspace Filmstrip space?
Let us start by deletion the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file. I believe in Mac it should be found
Users/Owner/Libraries/ Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Elements/13.0
If that does not help, then the usual questions
1. Is your video card/graphics card AMD Radeon HD 6750M driver version up to date according to the web site of the manufacturer of
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ATR

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Adobe Flash Player Flickers when watching Fox Business Full screen

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External monitor flickers when scroll on the google stock chart in Safari

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Screen flashing black only when viewing .pdf or .doc

I installed OpenOffice about a month ago. Shortly thereafter, my screen began flashing black whenever (and only when) I opened a document or pdf.
I installed OpenOffice and installed Microsoft Word. No help. I uninstalled Adobe Reader and reinstalled it. Still same problem. I called Dell computers. They had me do a System Restore.
No help. For some reason, they had me log in as an administrator. No help. The screen only flashes when a .doc or .pdf is open. It's a software, not hardware problem. Please help.

Assuming that you are on Windows, it could be a problem with your graphics driver. What is your display adapter, device driver version & date? See http://forums.adobe.com/thread/945765

Flash button problem when scrolling

Hello.
I posted this in Dreamweaver forum as well....just in case.
I am using flash buttons for email links in my web site
rather than html email links to help with spamming.
They work great except for one thing. In my site I have a
fixed Div on the left of my pages. The content scrolls sideways
underneath the fixed div. However....the flash buttons scroll over
the TOP of the fixed div while the rest of the content goes under
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Ken

Hello,
Try this and see if it works
In your HTML go to where the <object> tag is that loads
your flash button.
Add this parameter within it.
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
Then add the following inside the <embed> tag
wmode="transparent"
This is taken from an article from this site
http://www.bigismore.com/flash-related/flash-zorder-always-on-top/

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Starting random apps and screen flicker when scrolling

My Touch 2G suddenly started to launch random apps without me touching the screen. Besides starting random apps the screen flickers when scrolling. Any body have experienced the same? It started about 1 month ago and I have always taken good care of it. I have tried every possible thing I can think of when it comes to software. Full restore, jailbreak, full restore, back to factory, back to earlier versions of IOS, but no luck. It is pretty persistent. I am sure it is hardware related and don't mind paying to have it fixed. I tried two repairshops already and they were not able to recover the reason for the malfunction. I wonder whether there is anybody who has experienced the same or even knows what is wrong?

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How can I keep patterns from flashing when scrolling?

I am sensitive to flashing and strobing lights. They hurt. I have a lot of trouble with disorienting 'safety' lights, certain fluorescent lights, certain websites, et cetera. I also have trouble with disorienting noises. Elsewhere on this site, I had trouble with my screen flashing as I was scrolling. Apple had used a pattern of dots to create a medium grey, instead of using an even grey. It works fine on paper, but it flashes on the screen. Many patterns flash on the screen if I am scrolling.
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When you first insert a CD your Mac comes up with a box saying
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