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lvpeike00327
June 24, 2022
Question

Why my Figma always black screen?

  • June 24, 2022
  • 8 replies
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when i open the project
the window Blink several times
finally the window black screen
This problem continues about one month
who can help me?

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8 replies

tank666
June 24, 2022
UX/UI designer. Figma expert. Creator and developer of plugins and widgets for Figma and FigJam. Check out my resources in Figma Community: figma.com/@tank
Nicolas_Nasser
July 5, 2022

I’ve had a very similar problem, the file opened, froze for a few seconds then the screen blinked black and the file was blank, only the layers showing on the left. I use figma on my browser and the solution for me was:
write chrome://flags/ in the url then search for WebGL Developer Extensions and WebGL Draft Extensions. enable them both. this did the trick

bear in mind, I’m far from tech savvy so even though this fix worked and I could work on my figma file again, I have no idea if this toggle can compromise my files or data in any way.

best of luck

elijah_blaine
December 20, 2022

@Nicholas thank you for the assistance, worked perfectly after application.

Piotr_Siekanski
January 12, 2023

It crashed on my end to - I used to use Firefox for browsing. I switched to Chrome and it worked nicely. It’s a pity Firefox cannot support Figma properly…

Szczes_Piotr
New Participant
March 30, 2023

I had a similar issue. When I opened some old files (a few months old), on the desktop app it was showing an empty canvas (however comments were there).

Once I opened the same file on the web (Chrome in my case), it showed up. After this, it also showed up on the desktop.

September 11, 2023

Thanks. After enabling WebGL Developer Extensions and WebGL Draft Extensions, my frames and layers shows.

Nikita41
March 1, 2024

I fixed it by reinstalling Figma for kali linux

GitHub

then

sudo su
dpkg -i fi

after you type fi you press tab to get autocomplete and then enter then open Figma

July 18, 2024

You got that backwards. It’s a pity that Figma doesn’t care to support Firefox users.