How to get rid of weird border on the browser?
I genuinely don't know what the hell is going on or why every time I download an update for Firefox, SOMETHING has to go wrong. It's incredibly frustrating. But let's get to the point.
Last time my Firefox updated, something screwed up, as it often does. This time around, it gives this stupidly thick border around the browser, almost appearing like there's a second, slightly larger browser in the background of the first.
Not only is it very unsightly, but it also seems to make it impossible to snap the window into place like I used to do and can still do with any other windowed app. This also makes it impossible to resize the window in general- clicking on the edge of the browser does nothing. I can't resize it at all. This is a huge issue for me.
As far as I can tell, it's unrelated to themes or add-ons. I've disabled all my add-ons. I've disabled the dark theme I use. I've opened private browsers. It persists through all of this. I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the browser entirely. As you can guess.. literally nothing happened. Still there. Still can't resize or snap. Still utterly useless to me now.
I'm genuinely about to just say fuck it, delete it entirely from the computer, and move to Chrome. I've been a fan of Firefox for years, despite it giving me some sort of issue every update, but this might be the one that does me in. Would love a word of advice on how to fix this. Pics are included of what I'm talking about.
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have you manually tinkered with the accent colour in the windows registry? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524515#c9
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I just found a Reddit post from over a year ago detailing the exact same issues I'm having. Supposedly it's a "quantum" issue [I have no idea what quantum is, in full honesty].
I did just check and it does seem to hide my taskbar whenever it's maximized as well, as mentioned in that post :/ I didn't know of this as I almost never use maximized browsers.
Someone said it might be an issue with using multiple monitors? But I've never had this issue in the past, and been using dual monitors for well over a year without these problems.
Article - https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7klava/quantum_still_has_weird_issues_on_my_system/
More screenshots below. Note the compiarson to Chrome, which doesn't hide my taskbar [it's nothing to do with Windows 10 settings, and never did this before either.]
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have you manually tinkered with the accent colour in the windows registry? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524515#c9
philipp said
have you manually tinkered with the accent colour in the windows registry? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524515#c9
I haven't edited my accent colors in any recent times [I think the last time I messed with it was well over 4-5 months ago, and this only started occurring last month]
I did go into the settings and disable it for showing color on title bars though, out of mild curiosity, and it does seem to be related to the issue. The border around the browser is gone and it seems to function as normal once more.
Thank you for the help. I'd found a couple articles similar to what I was having but hadn't yet found that one.
@JkHowling - I am having the same issue since I updated to FF65/65.0.1 - I don't have this issue when using FF64.02. The best solution I found for now is to use an Addon Theme like LibreFox or something similar. With the default Firefox theme I get the white thick border exactly like the image you attached. Using an addon theme, the annoying thick white border disappear. (see images) Weird thing is this only happens on my freshly installed Win10 Pro, no customization have been done on this Win10 install yet. On my other 2 computers running Win10 Home been customized heavily, does not have this white border problem at all with the latest FF65.
