Favicons disappear when mouse hovers over close tab button
Issue
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
Description
As far as I can tell, this has only started to happen in the last couple of days. It may be related to the latest update (3.6.6), but I can't be sure it wasn't happening earlier. Anyway, the problem is this: When I start up Firefox or open a new tab, the favicon for that page displays normally on the tab bar (to the left of the page name on the tab). But if I happen to pass the cursor over the close tab button (to the right of the page name on the tab), even very briefly, the favicon disappears and is replaced by the default, blue globe icon. I should also mention that when I pass the cursor over the close tab button, the button itself seems to disapper, though it reappears when I move the cursor away. This latter phenomenon has occurred for as long as I can remember, but it only ever bothered me a very little. The newer, disappearing favicon problem is more annoying, though not yet a deal breaker.
Thanks for any insights.
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
I updated to 3.6.6?
Troubleshooting information
Application Basics Name Firefox Version 3.6.6 Profile Directory Show in Finder Installed Plugins about:plugins Build Configuration about:buildconfig
Extensions Name Version Enabled ID Fission 1.0.9 true {1280606b-2510-4fe0-97ef-9b5a22eafe41} Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2.2 true {61D0D7AF-4FF6-476a-B68F-6531F613A6D8} Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.4 true Flashblock 1.5.13 true {3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}
Modified Preferences Name Value accessibility.blockautorefresh true accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar 0 browser.history_expire_days.mirror 180 browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion 2 browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone rv:1.9.2.6 browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground true browser.tabs.warnOnClose false extensions.lastAppVersion 3.6.6 network.cookie.prefsMigrated true places.last_vacuum 1276669780 print.macosx.pagesetup-2 PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPCFET0NUWVBFIHBsaXN0IFBVQkxJQyAiLS8vQXBwbGUvL0RURCBQTElTVCAxLjAvL0VO… print.print_bgcolor false print.print_bgimages true print.print_command print.print_downloadfonts false print.print_evenpages true print.print_in_color true print.print_margin_bottom 0.5 print.print_margin_left 0.5 print.print_margin_right 0.5 print.print_margin_top 0.5 print.print_oddpages true print.print_orientation 0 print.print_pagedelay 500 print.print_paper_data 0 print.print_paper_height 11.00 print.print_paper_size_type 1 print.print_paper_size_unit 0 print.print_paper_width 8.50 print.print_printer print.print_reversed false print.print_scaling 1.00 print.print_shrink_to_fit true print.print_to_file false print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom 13 print.print_unwriteable_margin_left 13 print.print_unwriteable_margin_right 13 print.print_unwriteable_margin_top 13 privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs true security.warn_viewing_mixed false
Firefox version
3.6.6
Operating system
PPC Mac OS X 10.5
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
Plugins installed
- -Gecko default plugin
- Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
- iPhoto6
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- Office Live Update v1.0
- Java Plug-In 2 for NPAPI Browsers
- Shockwave Flash 10.1 r53
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
الحل المُختار
Hello Raygo.
It's possible that you are having a problem with some Firefox add-on that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?
Whenever you have a problem with Firefox, whatever it is, you should make sure it's not caused by one (or more than one) of your installed add-ons, be it an extension, a theme or a plugin. To do that easily and cleanly, run Firefox in safe mode (don't forget to select Disable all add-ons when you start safe mode). If the problem disappears, you know it's from an add-on. Disable them all in normal mode, and enable them one at a time until you find the source of the problem. See this article for information about troubleshooting extensions and theme and this one for plugins.
If you need support for one of your add-ons, you'll have to contact its author.
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الحل المُختار
Hello Raygo.
It's possible that you are having a problem with some Firefox add-on that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?
Whenever you have a problem with Firefox, whatever it is, you should make sure it's not caused by one (or more than one) of your installed add-ons, be it an extension, a theme or a plugin. To do that easily and cleanly, run Firefox in safe mode (don't forget to select Disable all add-ons when you start safe mode). If the problem disappears, you know it's from an add-on. Disable them all in normal mode, and enable them one at a time until you find the source of the problem. See this article for information about troubleshooting extensions and theme and this one for plugins.
If you need support for one of your add-ons, you'll have to contact its author.
FWIW, I was having this problem and was able to fix this by disabling the Tab Mix Plus (0.3.8.4) add-on. Maybe it was a conflict with another one, but I found I didn't really need that plugin anymore so it was an easy fix.
I have a empty box where I assume the "favicon" used to be on many (most of my bookmarks both on the tool bar and in the book mark folder. All I have is square empty box. How do I get the picture/favicons back. This happened after the upgrade this morning to version 8.