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The top of my page doesn't work...scroll bars, menu items, etc. The rest, from about 2 inches from the top of the page, works fine.

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My side scroll bars don't work by clicking and dragging. They don't even highlight when I pass the cursor over them when they're at the top of the page. If I use the down arrows at the bottom, they'll come down a click at a time. Then, when they're a couple of inches from the top, I can select them and they work fine. The same is true for any menu items at the TOP OF THE PAGE. Very frustrating. Even this page. If I scroll down too far and then try to type in this box, (because it's now close to the top of the page) nothing happens. I also can't use the menu to make the scrip Bold or Italics...nothing on that top bar of this box....unless I scroll down a couple of inches.

My side scroll bars don't work by clicking and dragging. They don't even highlight when I pass the cursor over them when they're at the top of the page. If I use the down arrows at the bottom, they'll come down a click at a time. Then, when they're a couple of inches from the top, I can select them and they work fine. The same is true for any menu items at the TOP OF THE PAGE. Very frustrating. Even this page. If I scroll down too far and then try to type in this box, (because it's now close to the top of the page) nothing happens. I also can't use the menu to make the scrip Bold or Italics...nothing on that top bar of this box....unless I scroll down a couple of inches.

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That problem can be caused by the Yahoo! Toolbar that extents too much downwards and covers the top part of the browser window and thus makes links in that part of the screen not clickable.


Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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That problem can be caused by the Yahoo! Toolbar that extents too much downwards and covers the top part of the browser window and thus makes links in that part of the screen not clickable.


Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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cor-el: Thanks a lot for the help. It worked like a charm!

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You're welcome

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i had a similar problem but my top arrow of the scroll bar and the top links didnt work by removing the tool bars it sorted itself out