I have been experiencing this for a while now and it’s getting really annoying. It seemed to start happening with an NVidia drivers update a few months back. The problem seems to be that some video content gets stuck in video memory and displays on the screen using certain colors as transparency. I took some screen caps but the artifacting is not captured.
What keeps happening is youtube videos (which I think are ads because it’s not videos I was watching) appear when black pixels are in a place on the screen where the video was. This also makes black text extremely difficult to read as it appears very choppy when it is affected. The content that appears behind black pixels includes the youtube logo and the video controls as well as the video itself.
I have been experiencing this for a while now and it’s getting really annoying. It seemed to start happening with an NVidia drivers update a few months back. The problem seems to be that some video content gets stuck in video memory and displays on the screen using certain colors as transparency. I took some screen caps but the artifacting is not captured.
What keeps happening is youtube videos (which I think are ads because it’s not videos I was watching) appear when black pixels are in a place on the screen where the video was. This also makes black text extremely difficult to read as it appears very choppy when it is affected. The content that appears behind black pixels includes the youtube logo and the video controls as well as the video itself.
Help!
So I really did see the very same problems a while back. It was an older nVIDIA driver and was with Firefox 3 and flash as I recall. I was not able to figure out who was at fault, but the nVIDIA driver has been updated, Firefox is at version 5 and there is even a beta Flash version that works with 64 bit. I do not know your openSUSE version, Desktop selected of Firefox version, but you must be willing to upgrade in order to fix this problem. Without regard to anything else, why not upgrade your video driver using the hard way? Here is a blog on how to do that.
You should uninstall and or remove any older drivers you may have loaded. I would search the forum on Firefox 5 and install it as described in the forum. Version 3 and 4 are no longer supported.