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Why does the Firefox icon blink on and off sometimes when I'm either in my email or when I'm in some, but not all, websites?

jstaff
jstaff
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The Firefox Icon at the bottom of my home page blinks when I look at some of my emails or go into a draft. It also happens when I'm in some, but not all, websites? What causes the blinking and should I be concerned? Is it a security risk? Thanking you in advance.

The Firefox Icon at the bottom of my home page blinks when I look at some of my emails or go into a draft. It also happens when I'm in some, but not all, websites? What causes the blinking and should I be concerned? Is it a security risk? Thanking you in advance.

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iamjayakumars
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May the issue with Mixed content. Disable the protection

cor-el
cor-el
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What Firefox icon are you talking about?

Can you attach a screenshot?

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.

jstaff
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The icon is located at the bottom of the screen in the PC taskbar.

iamjayakumars
iamjayakumars
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Hello,

Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a Clean reinstall. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:

Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.

  1. Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org and save the setup file to your computer.
  2. After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
  3. Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
    • Windows:
      • C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
    • Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
    • Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
  4. Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
    1. Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
    2. Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.

More information about reinstalling Firefox can be found here.

WARNING: Do not run Firefox's uninstaller or use a third party remover as part of this process, because that could permanently delete your Firefox data, including but not limited to, extensions, cache, cookies, bookmarks, personal settings and saved passwords. These cannot be recovered unless they have been backed up to an external device!

Please report back to see if this helped you!

Thank you.