Thumbnails resolution issue in web browsers

Hello everybody, here's what's happening,
When I open a browser (Safari, Opera, and so on..) my computer displays the thumnails (e.g. on apple.com the upper toolbar is blurry and so are the pics/thumbs) very blurry as if they were in poor resolution. And this only happens with the browers, because other pics apps seem to work just fine and videos as well. And I seem to get the same issue when booting to Win XP, which makes me think this is a hardware issue.
Anybody knows anything about this? Thanks!

The apple.com 'toolbar tabs' graphic is created by Javascript (browser plug-in) and many other browser images are handled by the QuickTime plug-in so I'd suspect/update both these items first up.
Next up I'd run OnyX and wipe all the browser caches.

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Over the past week or so, I have gradually been encountering issues with all three of the browsers that I have installed on all my Apple computers.
I have the following three browsers installed:
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Firefox (version 11.0)
Google Chrome (Version (17.0.963.83)
On all the following computers:
iMac 2.8 Ghz, Intel Core 2 Duo running OS X (10.5.8)
iMac 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 running OS X (10.6.8)
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It seems that the issues are more noticeable when accessing sites like Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Yahoo or Yahoo Mail... (which makes me wonder if the issues are possibly linked to Flash?) Either the sites don't load or load partially (always quite slowly) and I keep having to refresh/reload the page to hopefully get the full pages to load. But even that doesn't get me anywhere most of the time and I am left with blank pages or partially loaded pages. Today I also noticed issues while trying to use Skype where I kept having connection issues. Not sure if those were linked to the issues with the browsers.
FYI, I keep all my Mac computers and applications up to date with automatic updates and am not sure whether these issues are Mac related, application/browser related or even possibly ISP related? Although when trying to assess my ISP connection speed via speedtest.net it appears to connect at the normal usual rate, both for download (about 13 Mb/s) and upload (about 6 Mb/s) from all three computers.
I have not really seen any other similar recent post on the forums here but did find a post where it was recommended to unchecked the box on the info window to open both Safari and Firefox in 32-bit mode, but it didn't fix anything for me.
I've never had issues with these computers before and they were all running perfectly fine when accessing the internet about a week ago. I am not using any anti-virus software on any of the three computers and I have not installed any new software or made any changes to the computers recently other than scheduled updates. They are all working fine when using applications (MS Word or Excel, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom...) not accessing the internet.
Anyone else has experienced similar issues? Anyone know of a solution? Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Laurent

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Try troubleshooting the Flash plugin ...
Quit all your browsers.
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(Use Safari for a test). Launch Safari From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Empty Cache
Now try a video.
BTW... if you have the ClickToFlash extension installed, that can prevent Flash based video from streaming. It can also be installed as a plugin in /Library/Internet-Plug-Ins.
When it comes to browsers, emptying the cache more often can help.
For all your Macs.
Use OpenDNS for better speed, more security, includes anti phishing filters, and it's free.
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208.67.222.222
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208.67.220.220
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That being besides the point really because I also cannot find the option in Quicktime's settings to undo this!!
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Reinstalling IE8, resetting its settings, disabling the iTunes & Quicktime addons, even removing the Quicktime Control Object class from the registry... Nothing worked!
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Hey everyone,
Recently I bought a Mid 2014 Macbook Pro to replace my old 2011 model that was destroyed by liquid damage. Though I like this new computer, I seem to always have an issue with it running low on memory, ESPECIALLY when using web browsers such as Firefox and Safari. Quite often I will be waiting for a URL to load or will try to scroll through a webpage when the browser will freeze and crash. I've been keeping more of an eye on how much of my 8GBs RAM is being used at any current moment, and typically it is ranging from 2 GBs free to around only 30 MBs free as run applications such as Pages, Firefox, and/or Safari. These issues have been preventing me from using software such as Photoshop and Avid Media Composer because I keep wondering if the computer can even handle such memory intensive software if it cannot handle web browsers. Also when a browser crashes, I never seem to get a crash report and typically have to Force Quit the software.
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