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I accidentally replaced some system library with a new version instead of keeping both, now all firefox menues and animation are unavailable please help.

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I understand that my problem is dumb, but i can't get rid of it and it is annoying as hell! I use Linux Mint. One day, during a regular software update, I got a popup window asking whether I want to keep 2 versions of some library or replace the old version with a newer one. I was recommended to keep both, but accidentally I pressed "replace" instead of "keep" and since then I have this problem. I experience this problem in firefox, waterfox, even after reinstall. The problem is - all of the pop-up menues in Firefox stop showing when requested. The preferences (main menu) doesn't show up, so does bookmarks menu, so does that small pop-up window with bookmark properties when you make a new one. Addons'popups do not show as well so I am not able to use them any more. Luckily hotkeys still work and I could save my bookmarks. I am a 10years-long fan of Firefox and I cannot even imagine myself abandoning this browser! Please help me to fix this! Much regards

I understand that my problem is dumb, but i can't get rid of it and it is annoying as hell! I use Linux Mint. One day, during a regular software update, I got a popup window asking whether I want to keep 2 versions of some library or replace the old version with a newer one. I was recommended to keep both, but accidentally I pressed "replace" instead of "keep" and since then I have this problem. I experience this problem in firefox, waterfox, even after reinstall. The problem is - all of the pop-up menues in Firefox stop showing when requested. The preferences (main menu) doesn't show up, so does bookmarks menu, so does that small pop-up window with bookmark properties when you make a new one. Addons'popups do not show as well so I am not able to use them any more. Luckily hotkeys still work and I could save my bookmarks. I am a 10years-long fan of Firefox and I cannot even imagine myself abandoning this browser! Please help me to fix this! Much regards

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Your going to have to reinstall the older version to get the library back if it doesn't give you a restore option.

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KKmmjj said

The problem is - all of the pop-up menues in Firefox stop showing when requested. The preferences (main menu) doesn't show up, so does bookmarks menu, so does that small pop-up window with bookmark properties when you make a new one.

Are you using KDE ? as some Ubuntu and Mint users said they had invisible windows or menus in Firefox until the changed the KDE rendering backend to xrender.