Disappearing door hangers

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Disappearing door hangers

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I have four extensions which use door hanger menus; S3 Translator, uBlock Origin, Bitwarden and Form History Control. Recently - not sure from exactly when, but definitely since Fx 57 arrived - when clicked, those menus go blank after anywhere between five and twenty seconds.

I've tried disabling all extensions but one of the door hanger ones - still happens. Even tried a new profile with only S3 Translator installed (in case it was a uBlock filter problem) - same result.

Obviously not something that can be tested in Safe Mode and the only even vaguely relevant about:config entry refers to the address bar door hangers.

Any suggestions? Anyone else seeing this?
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Re: Disappearing door hangers

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Try turning off hardware acceleration.

Tools -> Options -> General, Performance. Uncheck "Use recommended performance settings". Then, uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" after it shows up after you turned off the recommended performance settings checkbox. Close and then restart Firefox. Some people report having to restart their computer to turn off hardware acceleration.
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Re: Disappearing door hangers

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Already off. Multiprocess disabled as well.
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Does it happen if you create a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager
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smsmith wrote:Does it happen if you create a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager
Yes - see para 2 in the OP. It was a completely vanilla profile with only the one extension installed.
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Re: Disappearing door hangers

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Something related to "OS" themes or colors?

Screenshot of these blank menus?
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Vitesse wrote:
smsmith wrote:Does it happen if you create a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager
Yes - see para 2 in the OP. It was a completely vanilla profile with only the one extension installed.
Sorry, missed that. And you disabled hardware acceleration and multi process in the vanilla profile?
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Re: Disappearing door hangers

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smsmith wrote:
Vitesse wrote:
smsmith wrote:Does it happen if you create a new profile?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_manager
Yes - see para 2 in the OP. It was a completely vanilla profile with only the one extension installed.
Sorry, missed that. And you disabled hardware acceleration and multi process in the vanilla profile?
Yes.
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Re: Disappearing door hangers

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therube wrote:Something related to "OS" themes or colors?

Screenshot of these blank menus?
First one is from the new profile:
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Default profile - uBlock Origin:
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A few seconds later (can happen after anything between 5 and 20 seconds!)
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As you can probably see, I'm using Classic Shell, but I doubt that's causing it.
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