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Drop down menus, context menus and auto fill menus items don't appear!

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I have FF4 beta, this started since FF4 beta 7. I work on Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit.

The problem is that I can't see drop down menus unless they have alot of items, nor context menus (like highlighting a text then right-clicking it), auto fill bars don't show the auto fill info entered before .. the menu itself appears, kinda. but it's transparent and the I can't see the items, don't know where to click to select the thing I want.

I haven't got this problem before 4.0b7 .. after I got it, I thought it was one of the plugins, so I disabled them all but still have the problem!

An image describing the problem is here, taken now on this page, I highlighted a text, and right-clicked it: here you can see the menu is somehow appearing, surrounded by the red border, but I can't see it!

I have FF4 beta, this started since FF4 beta 7. I work on Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. The problem is that I can't see drop down menus unless they have alot of items, nor context menus (like highlighting a text then right-clicking it), auto fill bars don't show the auto fill info entered before .. the menu itself appears, kinda. but it's transparent and the I can't see the items, don't know where to click to select the thing I want. I haven't got this problem before 4.0b7 .. after I got it, I thought it was one of the plugins, so I disabled them all but still have the problem! An image describing the problem is here, taken now on this page, I highlighted a text, and right-clicked it: [http://imgur.com/e9juh.png here] you can see the menu is somehow appearing, surrounded by the red border, but I can't see it!

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Tools > Options > Advanced

Under Browsing try disabling Use hardware acceleration when available. It shouldn't be affecting contextual menus like that, but who knows with NVDIA adapters.

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dhelmet
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I had the same exact problem. I'm pretty sure it started when I changed my desktop theme in Win7 from Aero to Classic.

Un-checking the "Use hardware acceleration when available" box fixed it.

Next I re-enabled the hardware acceleration checkbox and everything is still fine. We'll see if it comes back at some point, but this seems to have served as a sort of "reset" after the theme change.

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