Can't see the Firefox window when it starts.
Running Windows 7 home edition. On opening Firefox, the window appears to try to open to the right of the screen. There is no window visible apart from the small preview in the task bar. Consequently, I can't drag, click on or access any of the options. This happened after installing Silverlight which has now been deleted. Firefox has also been deleted and reinstalled. Any ideas?
Chosen solution
I managed to solve things by getting it to open in 640 x 480 and then restoring a previous version. There was no way to drag, move or bring the window back to the screen that I could find. Apparently an update was released to fix the problem of the screen wandering off. I didn't have that problem but the update automatically installed and disappeared the Firefox window off the screen. It was only Firefox that had the problem.
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This may be because your screen monitor is extended (like onto a projector or some other secondary monitor). Try changing it to not extended (my be called primary monitor only or something) and see if that helps.
Tried all those lines of thought. Apparently it was a Firefox update that caused it. A fix for a problem I didn't have installed itself and screwed things up. Had to resort to last years Firefox with a system restore. Thanks tho.
Try to open the window system menu via Alt+Space and see if you can move the window into view with the cursor keys.
Chosen Solution
I managed to solve things by getting it to open in 640 x 480 and then restoring a previous version. There was no way to drag, move or bring the window back to the screen that I could find. Apparently an update was released to fix the problem of the screen wandering off. I didn't have that problem but the update automatically installed and disappeared the Firefox window off the screen. It was only Firefox that had the problem.