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I have weird white bars around my browser

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When I'm minimized or maximized the browser, there's these white bars that appear around the browser. If I restart the browser, the bars will be gone for awhile and it will happen again. See attached image for a clearer idea of what I'm saying.

Also, if I minimize the browser completely, I can never open it again until I close and restart the browser. Not sure what is happening.

When I'm minimized or maximized the browser, there's these white bars that appear around the browser. If I restart the browser, the bars will be gone for awhile and it will happen again. See attached image for a clearer idea of what I'm saying. Also, if I minimize the browser completely, I can never open it again until I close and restart the browser. Not sure what is happening.
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I realized what was the issue, I had made some changes to the title bar settings in the registry (ColourPrevalence, AccentColour etc) keys and I think it weirdly affected Firefox. For some reason only FireFox was affected though. Rest of my applications worked fine.

I changed back to the default values and Firefox stopping bugging out!

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

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When I switch to safe mode, the browser completely bugs out. I have a video, I'm not sure which medium is acceptable for the forum tho. But its just flashes and refuses to open when it goes into safe Mode.

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This forum can only store pictures.
You would need to find a way to store it on a website like YouTube.

ESSVEE said

the browser completely bugs out

Please explain the problem in detail. What happens? What is/are the exact error message(s) ?

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I realized what was the issue, I had made some changes to the title bar settings in the registry (ColourPrevalence, AccentColour etc) keys and I think it weirdly affected Firefox. For some reason only FireFox was affected though. Rest of my applications worked fine.

I changed back to the default values and Firefox stopping bugging out!

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That was very good work. Well Done&#46