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Close window button missing from my active+inactive tabs

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Hi. Does anyone else have the problem of the close tab button disappearing from the tabs, irrespective of whether they are the active or inactive tab?

I can only get the buttons back by pressing the big "+" and opening a new tab and presto, all the close tab buttons appear again.

Using firefox 8 on a windows 7 laptop. Not sure if it happens every load or just sometimes, but is frequent enough to be annoying.

Hi. Does anyone else have the problem of the close tab button disappearing from the tabs, irrespective of whether they are the active or inactive tab? I can only get the buttons back by pressing the big "+" and opening a new tab and presto, all the close tab buttons appear again. Using firefox 8 on a windows 7 laptop. Not sure if it happens every load or just sometimes, but is frequent enough to be annoying.

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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).

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Hello, and thank you for your reply.

I have narrowed down the problem further now- it seems that when I have an open mozilla window, and then open a link from another programme (have only tried thunderbird so far), the new tab may or may not have a close tab button on it (not right 3 out of 4 times)

Didn't seem to happen when I tried safe mode, but I only tried it 3 or 4 times.

It's not a big issue for me, but I guess bugs should be figured out.