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Firefox window transparency randomly disappears

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HelloXD
HelloXD
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As of lately, my firefox's window seems to lose its transparency at random times. (i.e. The theme for only firefox changes from Aero to Basic). I am currently running on Windows 7 and am using FireFox 3.6.8. I don't know what might be causing this problem. I've tried disabling all add-ons but the problem persists. Once it happens, the only way to change it back is to restart firefox.

Just yesterday, I downloaded FireFox 4 Beta 3 to see if the problem would be gone, but the problem persisted. This is especially bad because once it happened on FireFox 4, the minimize, window, and X buttons in the top right corner vanished, so it would be nice if I could figure out how to fix the problem before FireFox 4 was officially released.

As of lately, my firefox's window seems to lose its transparency at random times. (i.e. The theme for ''only'' firefox changes from Aero to Basic). I am currently running on Windows 7 and am using FireFox 3.6.8. I don't know what might be causing this problem. I've tried disabling all add-ons but the problem persists. Once it happens, the only way to change it back is to restart firefox. Just yesterday, I downloaded FireFox 4 Beta 3 to see if the problem would be gone, but the problem persisted. This is especially bad because once it happened on FireFox 4, the minimize, window, and X buttons in the top right corner vanished, so it would be nice if I could figure out how to fix the problem before FireFox 4 was officially released.

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rjohnson19
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Hi HelloXD,

This is a known issue that doesn't have a resolution yet. It seems it is related to plugins.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545892

This bug is presently targeted to be fixed before the final release of Firefox 4.

HelloXD
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Oh, okay thanks for the info!

I'd also like to add that that page lists the platform as 34-bit(x86) Windows 7, however I am running on 64-bit(x64) Windows 7, and the problem occurs for me as well, if the info helps.