FF 57 address bar flickering violently

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usernameistoolong
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Joined: January 13th, 2009, 6:43 pm

FF 57 address bar flickering violently

Post by usernameistoolong »

Just upgraded to FF 57 and it certainly looks pretty enough,

but the address bar is flickering back and forth violently, as if trying to re-size itself and failing. I think it's trying to give me epilepsy.

It does this with a blank page or with webpages, but not internal pages like about:addons.

I had a custom size for the address bar set with Classic Theme Restorer, can it have to do with that?

edit: and it only goes on while the screen is maximized, de-maximizing stops it.
Brummelchen
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Re: FF 57 address bar flickering violently

Post by Brummelchen »

test firefox in safe-mode please:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tr ... -safe-mode
or
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

create a new profile
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_ne ... on_Windows
or
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

This article explains how to selectively transfer Firefox user data and settings to a new Firefox profile
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ ... _-_Firefox

or reset your firefox profile to keep bookmarks and other stuff, read here please
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/re ... d-settings
(keeping bookmarks, history, passwords, cookies, form data aso.)
usernameistoolong
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Re: FF 57 address bar flickering violently

Post by usernameistoolong »

Just discovered the culprit is the new version of Greasemonkey!
siffemoz
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Re: FF 57 address bar flickering violently

Post by siffemoz »

Greasemonkey itself, or one of the scripts you're running with it?
usernameistoolong
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Re: FF 57 address bar flickering violently

Post by usernameistoolong »

Well, it looks like it's not really Greasemonkey.

After I disabled it the address bar stopped flickering, but now this morning it's back to doing it again.

So I will probably just have to set up a new profile.

edit:

in Customize I set the toolbars to 'compact' and it's stopped flickering, for now.
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