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Close, Minimize, and Restore buttons are invisible

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For the last couple of months my top right hand buttons have been invisible. If I can find the appropriate spot to click, the functions still work, but it's difficult to judge exactly where to click for each one. Sometimes I close it when I want to restore down, etc. Is there a fix for this? I found one other person with this problem in the help loop, but the question was never answered and it had been archived. Thanks! Kimberly

For the last couple of months my top right hand buttons have been invisible. If I can find the appropriate spot to click, the functions still work, but it's difficult to judge exactly where to click for each one. Sometimes I close it when I want to restore down, etc. Is there a fix for this? I found one other person with this problem in the help loop, but the question was never answered and it had been archived. Thanks! Kimberly
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What, explicitly, were these buttons?

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I have the same thing! And the close button is unnecessarily physically enormous, so it's difficult to hit Restore Down instead of Close. I thought my session glitched and it would be back next time, but I restarted Firefox and they were still invisible. Through some experimenting, I seem to only get this with my custom Themes/Skins. If I use a default Theme that came with Firefox, they show fine. If I'm not maximized, I can see a glow above the window when I hover over one, showing me which button is where. One page (apparently about this happening in all of Windows and not this, specific to Firefox) suggested going into the Task Manager to shutdown the process for dwm (Desktop Window Manager) to make it restart to bring them back, but that didn't work. The Theme isn't to blame because I've had them for years and they always showed the buttons fine.

Seems like this issue showed up for me with this week's update, 105.0.1 (64-bit), because I hit that Close button all the time. I'm using Windows 7 (and no, suggestions that I downgrade to Windows 10 or 11 are not welcome or acceptable). Also, I have dozens of tabs open, which re-"open" every time I start Firefox (they don't load unless I switch to them, so no memory issues), so I'm not interested in any uninstall/reinstall solution that might lose them (there's too many to try to note them down or anything, and several tabs have a Back history I want to keep, too). Mostly, I'm not so much looking for troubleshooting as to report this as a bug.

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david said

What, explicitly, were these buttons?

Are you kidding? Kidding around isn't helpful. If you're not, "top right hand corner" should be pretty clear. Naming them should be pretty clear. Together is incredibly explicit, the most explicit anyone can be, and makes this question quite unnecessary. Please read better.