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Oversized Toolbars

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engman
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Running Firefox 9.0.1. The toolbars have suddenly become oversized ( Menu Bar, Navigation Bar, and Tabs ) and now take up around a third of the screen. The fonts appear to be the normal size, but there appears to have been loads of whitespace inserted at the top and bottom of all these bars. The Bookmarks menu, for example, can only display the first 7 items before scrolling is required.

Troubleshooting suggests this may be a graphics driver problem, but this problem has only just started happening and I am unable to obtain a more current driver for what might be obsolete hardware.

Running Firefox 9.0.1. The toolbars have suddenly become oversized ( Menu Bar, Navigation Bar, and Tabs ) and now take up around a third of the screen. The fonts appear to be the normal size, but there appears to have been loads of whitespace inserted at the top and bottom of all these bars. The Bookmarks menu, for example, can only display the first 7 items before scrolling is required. Troubleshooting suggests this may be a graphics driver problem, but this problem has only just started happening and I am unable to obtain a more current driver for what might be obsolete hardware.

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cor-el
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Check that you do not run Firefox in compatibility mode or with a reduced screen resolution.
Make sure that you do not run Firefox in compatibility mode.
You can open the Properties via the right-click context menu of the Firefox desktop shortcut and check that in the "Compatibility" tab.
Make sure that all items are deselected in the "Compatibility" tab of the Properties window.

engman
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Thanks for the response cor-el. I am definitely not running Firefox in compatability mode - all check boxes are deselected. Screen resolution is 1024 x 768 which shouldn't be a problem.

Firefox 9 has been highly unstable and crashing on a daily basis. 9.0.1 seems to have introduced the graphics issues. It is almost unusable at the moment and I will reluctantly have to resort to IE8 if these issues cannot be resolved.

engman
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As a further attempt to remedy these problems I have been attempting to uncheck Hardware Acceleration. This can supposedly be done via Tools->Options->Advanced->General.

However, on the Tools menu with the inflated tabs, I have to scroll down to get to the Options tab which does not bring up any sub-menu. Clicking on the Tools->Options tab freezes the screen, greys out the Command Toolbar and a Ctrl-Alt-Delete reveals that Firefox is awaiting a user response - unfortunately there is nothing on the Firefox interface for me to be able to respond to!

Can we have Firefox version 8 back please? :-((

cor-el
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See:

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems to access Options.

See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":

There may be extensions and plugins installed by default in a new profile, so check that in "Tools > Add-ons > Extensions & Plugins" in case there are still problems.

If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.

See:

engman
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Thanks for the tips jor-el.

I tried creating a new profile by running 'Firefox.exe -p' and the interface for this also came up with enlarged buttons. The new profile made no difference, so I then went in and deleted all the profile files and restarted after a reboot. The interface problems persisted.

Consequently, I decided to uninstall and start afresh which has caused further problems. The Installation File ( 4.42.0.0 ) that I am getting, reports itself as being corrupt and I have posted a seperate question on this. Things are not looking good!