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How I do I get rid of the vertical green bar on most videos?

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Most videos in both Twitter and Facebook are distorted by a bright green, vertical bar. How do I get rid of this? It is apparently a common problem, and a solution must have been found by now.

Most videos in both Twitter and Facebook are distorted by a bright green, vertical bar. How do I get rid of this? It is apparently a common problem, and a solution must have been found by now.

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Try to set this pref to false on the about:config page.

  • [58+] media.wmf.dxva.d3d11.enable = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.


You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

Close and restart Firefox after modifying the setting to make the change effective.

You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver and check for hardware acceleration related issues.