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I can't get the vertical scroll bar to appear in many websites, like Facebook.

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The vertical scroll bar was missing everywhere yesterday. I refreshed Firefox several times. Now I have vertical scroll bars in Yahoo e-mail, and this forum, but mostly nowhere else. So we can't navigate any site who's information is longer than one screen height, including Facebook.

My wife does a lot of surveys, and she must have dragged across something with the mouse, but I have no idea what.

The vertical scroll bar was missing everywhere yesterday. I refreshed Firefox several times. Now I have vertical scroll bars in Yahoo e-mail, and this forum, but mostly nowhere else. So we can't navigate any site who's information is longer than one screen height, including Facebook. My wife does a lot of surveys, and she must have dragged across something with the mouse, but I have no idea what.

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If you have a three button mouse, click the middle button turns the mouse into a scroll controller.


Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode;

Type about:preferences#advanced<Enter> in the address bar.

Under Advanced, Select General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

Poke around safe web sites. Are there any problems?

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Are you running Firefox in Private Browsing mode?

You can try to open a new window via Ctrl+N or the File menu when this happens.

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If this is the problem with private windows and tabbed browsing turned off in the Options, a workaround is to Shift+click links that you want to open in a new window (hold down the Shift key and click the link).