Menu bar glowing blue
When a blue glowing notification appears on one of the pinned tabs, it fills the entire menu bar. All the elements have a blue color accent. They are rendered normally after I hover the cursor over them. Often happens when minimizing/maximizing the window.
Chosen solution
by cor-elStart Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.15.2 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.02
- Google Update
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- GEPlugin
- 4.1.10329.0
- Foxit Reader Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape
- np-mswmp
- Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
Application
- Firefox 19.0.2
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/19.0.2/WINNT/ru/
Extensions
- Adblock Plus 2.2.3
- All-in-One Sidebar 0.7.18
- British English Dictionary 1.19.1
- Close Tabs to the Right 0.1.4
- Dictionary Switcher 1.3.2
- FlashGot 1.5.4.3
- Pocket 3.0.1
- Polski slownik poprawnej pisowni 1.0.20110621
- Troubleshooter 1.0a
- United States English Spellchecker 6.0
- UrlCorrector 0.4.4
- Classic Toolbar Buttons 1.2.2 (Inactive)
- DivX Web Player 2.0.2.039 (Inactive)
- DownloadHelper 4.9.14 (Inactive)
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
- adapterDescription2:
- adapterDeviceID: 0x68e0
- adapterDeviceID2:
- adapterDrivers: aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64
- adapterDrivers2:
- adapterRAM: 1024
- adapterRAM2:
- adapterVendorID: 0x1002
- adapterVendorID2:
- direct2DEnabled: True
- directWriteEnabled: True
- directWriteVersion: 6.2.9200.16492
- driverDate: 6-1-2010
- driverDate2:
- driverVersion: 8.742.0.0
- driverVersion2:
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'cairo'}
- isGPU2Active: False
- numAcceleratedWindows: 1
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRenderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 )
- windowLayerManagerType: Direct3D 10
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind: True
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.history_expire_days.mirror: 180
- browser.places.importBookmarksHTML: False
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.search.openintab: True
- browser.search.useDBForOrder: false
- browser.startup.homepage: about:blank
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130307023931
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 19.0.2
- browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab: False
- browser.tabs.loadInBackground: False
- browser.tabs.onTop: False
- browser.tabs.tabClipWidth: 20
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 19.0.2
- font.internaluseonly.changed: False
- gfx.direct3d.prefer_10_1: True
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1362730617
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104173
- places.last_vacuum: 1286089267
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- privacy.clearOnShutdown.cache: False
- privacy.clearOnShutdown.cookies: False
- privacy.clearOnShutdown.downloads: False
- privacy.clearOnShutdown.formdata: False
- privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: True
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- privacy.sanitize.promptOnSanitize: False
- security.warn_viewing_mixed: False
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
Chosen Solution
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
Solution chosen
Question owner
Thanks, turning off the hardware acceleration helped :)