Just had an interesting display problem with Fx (145.0, Linux Mint 22.2).
Webpages weren't displaying correctly, with the background and sometimes foreground colours missing. For example, at the bottom of an Amazon page where all the info is, it should be white text on a black background. I
was getting black text on a white background, and where there are
thumbnails to click on to get alternative views of the Amazon item, the thumbnails were missing. On other webpages some colours were missing too.
I tried clearing the cache and then refreshing Fx, but although that
solved the display issue, all my personalisation had been lost. I'd
saved a copy of the profile to another folder, and copied that back to
the .mozilla/Firefox folder, but on restarting Fx it just went to the
new xxx.default.release profile it had created after the refresh. So I renamed my old profile with the new profile name (and renamed that to
NEW xxx.profile.release), and restarted Fx. Well, all my
personalisations were back, but so was the display fault!
In the end I deleted the current .mozilla folder in my home folder and restored it from a 2-week old backup, and that got the display back and
all my personalisations were there. I'd lost a few new tabs, but that
didn't matter (I guess I should have saved "history" from the latest messed-up display Fx and imported that to the restored folder).
I'm somewhat surprised that a profile should affect the webpage display
so much when it had been working well for months, if not years.
Just had an interesting display problem with Fx (145.0, Linux Mint 22.2).
Webpages weren't displaying correctly, with the background and sometimes foreground colours missing. For example, at the bottom of an Amazon page where all the info is, it should be white text on a black background. I
was getting black text on a white background, and where there are
thumbnails to click on to get alternative views of the Amazon item, the thumbnails were missing. On other webpages some colours were missing too.
I tried clearing the cache and then refreshing Fx, but although that
solved the display issue, all my personalisation had been lost. I'd
saved a copy of the profile to another folder, and copied that back to
the .mozilla/Firefox folder, but on restarting Fx it just went to the
new xxx.default.release profile it had created after the refresh. So I renamed my old profile with the new profile name (and renamed that to
NEW xxx.profile.release), and restarted Fx. Well, all my
personalisations were back, but so was the display fault!
In the end I deleted the current .mozilla folder in my home folder and restored it from a 2-week old backup, and that got the display back and
all my personalisations were there. I'd lost a few new tabs, but that
didn't matter (I guess I should have saved "history" from the latest messed-up display Fx and imported that to the restored folder).
I'm somewhat surprised that a profile should affect the webpage display
so much when it had been working well for months, if not years.
Jeff Layman wrote:
Just had an interesting display problem with Fx (145.0, Linux Mint 22.2).
Webpages weren't displaying correctly, with the background and sometimes
foreground colours missing. For example, at the bottom of an Amazon page
where all the info is, it should be white text on a black background. I
was getting black text on a white background, and where there are
thumbnails to click on to get alternative views of the Amazon item, the
thumbnails were missing. On other webpages some colours were missing too.
I tried clearing the cache and then refreshing Fx, but although that
solved the display issue, all my personalisation had been lost. I'd
saved a copy of the profile to another folder, and copied that back to
the .mozilla/Firefox folder, but on restarting Fx it just went to the
new xxx.default.release profile it had created after the refresh. So I
renamed my old profile with the new profile name (and renamed that to
NEW xxx.profile.release), and restarted Fx. Well, all my
personalisations were back, but so was the display fault!
In the end I deleted the current .mozilla folder in my home folder and
restored it from a 2-week old backup, and that got the display back and
all my personalisations were there. I'd lost a few new tabs, but that
didn't matter (I guess I should have saved "history" from the latest
messed-up display Fx and imported that to the restored folder).
I'm somewhat surprised that a profile should affect the webpage display
so much when it had been working well for months, if not years.
Guess 1: It was something you (or a site you visited) did.
Guess 2: Mint applied an update, it broke things. Mint applied another update, it stopped breaking things.
Guess 2 seems less probable - and that's even if Mint works that way. I
use openSUSE and that defaults to FF-esr, which tends to be more stable.
btw, it sounds like you did a "clear data" rather than a "clear cache".
I have FF set to clear cache whenever I close a browser window, personalisations are not affected.
On 2025-11-20 11:09, Jeff Layman wrote:
Just had an interesting display problem with Fx (145.0, Linux Mint 22.2).
Webpages weren't displaying correctly, with the background and sometimes
foreground colours missing. For example, at the bottom of an Amazon page
where all the info is, it should be white text on a black background. I
was getting black text on a white background, and where there are
thumbnails to click on to get alternative views of the Amazon item, the
thumbnails were missing. On other webpages some colours were missing too.
I tried clearing the cache and then refreshing Fx, but although that
solved the display issue, all my personalisation had been lost. I'd
saved a copy of the profile to another folder, and copied that back to
the .mozilla/Firefox folder, but on restarting Fx it just went to the
new xxx.default.release profile it had created after the refresh. So I
renamed my old profile with the new profile name (and renamed that to
NEW xxx.profile.release), and restarted Fx. Well, all my
personalisations were back, but so was the display fault!
In the end I deleted the current .mozilla folder in my home folder and
restored it from a 2-week old backup, and that got the display back and
all my personalisations were there. I'd lost a few new tabs, but that
didn't matter (I guess I should have saved "history" from the latest
messed-up display Fx and imported that to the restored folder).
I'm somewhat surprised that a profile should affect the webpage display
so much when it had been working well for months, if not years.
I have seen a similar problem told in the openSUSE mail list:
<https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/message/MSLTABJ7WIYE6AR5ECLCLK5LIRNXHGC4/>
On 20/11/2025 12:24, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-11-20 11:09, Jeff Layman wrote:
Just had an interesting display problem with Fx (145.0, Linux Mint
22.2).
I have seen a similar problem told in the openSUSE mail list:
<https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/
message/MSLTABJ7WIYE6AR5ECLCLK5LIRNXHGC4/>
Thanks for that. It's not entirely similar, but it's definitely a
display problem which has appeared very recently. According to Mint's
Update Manager, my Fx was updated from 144.0.2 to 145.0 on 12 November.
On 2025-11-20 14:19, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 20/11/2025 12:24, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-11-20 11:09, Jeff Layman wrote:
Just had an interesting display problem with Fx (145.0, Linux Mint
22.2).
I have seen a similar problem told in the openSUSE mail list:
<https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/
message/MSLTABJ7WIYE6AR5ECLCLK5LIRNXHGC4/>
Thanks for that. It's not entirely similar, but it's definitely a
display problem which has appeared very recently. According to Mint's
Update Manager, my Fx was updated from 144.0.2 to 145.0 on 12 November.
Well, that person solved his problem restoring the profile from a backup
one month old. He thanked me for telling about your case, so he is
thanking you in effect :-)
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