[SOLVED] firefox 4 rendering issues

Is anyone else having problems like this in firefox4?
several sites i visit turn out like this...
http://i.imgur.com/Zv5WZ.png
This is only happening for me in linux ... not windows7
Anyone know the cause of this?
Last edited by murfMan (2011-03-29 04:46:00)

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