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The Times Crossword black background has gone missing - why?

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kiffer@weisselberg.co.uk
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What is bizarre about this fault is that the black background is replaced by the web page last looked at..eg: where I have five tabs in a window, one of which is The Time Crossword say tab No 3 - and I then look at tab No 5 and revert back to tab No 3, the background [where normally the black will appear] uses the tab screen of tab No. 5

What is bizarre about this fault is that the black background is replaced by the web page last looked at..eg: where I have five tabs in a window, one of which is The Time Crossword say tab No 3 - and I then look at tab No 5 and revert back to tab No 3, the background [where normally the black will appear] uses the tab screen of tab No. 5

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Xapper
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consider creating a FRESH firefox profile, compare results

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager

cor-el
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Try to disable hardware acceleration.

  • Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
kiffer@weisselberg.co.uk
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Unfortunately neither of these two strategies work. Do you have any other ideas?

cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.

See "Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile":

If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.

See: