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Black box appears on screen, don't know why.

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http://i.imgur.com/kWLe3yn.png

Not sure what I did, but this black bar just appears on my firefox screen and I can't get it to go away. Right clicking on it doesn't work. I tried restarting my computer and restarting firefox but that didn't do anything.

http://i.imgur.com/kWLe3yn.png Not sure what I did, but this black bar just appears on my firefox screen and I can't get it to go away. Right clicking on it doesn't work. I tried restarting my computer and restarting firefox but that didn't do anything.

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Hello,

Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.

(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)

  • You can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
  • Or open the Help menu and click on the Restart with Add-ons Disabled... menu item while Firefox is running.

Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"

If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article for that.

To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.

When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.

Thank you.

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Hello,

Try Firefox Safe Mode to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.

(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)

  • You can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the Shift key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
  • Or open the Help menu and click on the Restart with Add-ons Disabled... menu item while Firefox is running.

Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"

If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode, your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems article for that.

To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.

When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.

Thank you.

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Thanks a lot! Actually once I swapped back out to the default theme, it disappeared. Turns out it was probably linked to the Firefox complete theme I was using - FT DeepDark. I did try uninstalling and reinstalling the theme but that didn't help, unfortunately. I've since just changed the theme and it works fine now. I'm not sure what triggered it in the first place, but at least it's gone.

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