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the minimize, maximize and close icons are all blacked out. I'm up to date and have used the refresh feature on the Mozilla site.

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When I hover the cursor over the blacked-out area, no text appears, but the icons do still function. Ideas?

When I hover the cursor over the blacked-out area, no text appears, but the icons do still function. Ideas?

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Have you changed your theme with an add-on? If you have, then revert back to the classic theme and see if this fixes the issue. Start browser in safe mode and disable the add-on.

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Hi Smurf, and thanks for the suggestions (yours is the only reply I got)!

Unfortunately, no, I haven't changed the theme at all, no add-ons.

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Can you upload a picture to this thread?

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode;

Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.

Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?

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Did some research. Try an update of your graphics driver: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows%207%20-%2064

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I'm also having this issue. Tried all the solutions above and no joy. Any further suggestions. WIN 7 and FF Ver. 38.0.5

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac Options)
key, and then starting Firefox. Is the problem still there?

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If you use a non standard windows theme or made other appearance changes then try to revert those changes and use a (different) standard theme or Windows wallpaper.

  • Control Panel > Personalization > Theme & Window Color and Appearance