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All buttons in Firefox have dissappeared after a PC optimization software- please help!

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naturedr
naturedr

I am using Windows 7 on a Toshiba laptop. I used AVG's PC clean-up as a trial (no longer have access to it). During the process, I chose to turn off blinking and revolving content on Firefox (thinking I was turning off those annoying ads). Now, all of my 'buttons' are just blank boxes. I use gmail: the star option on the inbox has disappeared. The 'send', 'spam', 'trash', etc above the email- those are just blank boxes (they still do work though- I just have to move over them to get the explanation to see what they are). This is not the case with the 'star' however. I have been all over settings, and have tried the JAVA advanced. I think this must be something set outside of Firefox. Internet Explorer runs fully functional. Please help. I really do not want to have to re-install Firefox as I don't want to lose all of my saved passwords and bookmarks.

I am using Windows 7 on a Toshiba laptop. I used AVG's PC clean-up as a trial (no longer have access to it). During the process, I chose to turn off blinking and revolving content on Firefox (thinking I was turning off those annoying ads). Now, all of my 'buttons' are just blank boxes. I use gmail: the star option on the inbox has disappeared. The 'send', 'spam', 'trash', etc above the email- those are just blank boxes (they still do work though- I just have to move over them to get the explanation to see what they are). This is not the case with the 'star' however. I have been all over settings, and have tried the JAVA advanced. I think this must be something set outside of Firefox. Internet Explorer runs fully functional. Please help. I really do not want to have to re-install Firefox as I don't want to lose all of my saved passwords and bookmarks.

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Make sure that you allow pages to choose their colors and that you haven't enabled High Contrast in the Accessibility settings.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"
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naturedr
naturedr Question owner

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Modified by naturedr

cor-el
cor-el
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Chosen Solution

Make sure that you allow pages to choose their colors and that you haven't enabled High Contrast in the Accessibility settings.

  • Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"
naturedr
naturedr Question owner

Hey, thanks so much for the advice- but it did not work- it was actually already checked to allow the colors.

cor-el
cor-el
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Did you check the accessibility settings in the Windows Control Panel?