All tabs displayed rapidly when hovering

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All tabs displayed rapidly when hovering

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Odd behaviour suddenly: as soon as mouse cursor is over any tab, all of them are successively displayed fast.

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What version of Firefox are you actually running when that occurs? Have you tried starting Firefox in Mozilla Safe Mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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Thanks Dan, I should have mentioned it but as you see from my sig I’m actually using Waterfox. Was more optimistic of a quick reply here than Reddit.
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Have you tried safe mode?

Moving to Third Party Builds.
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Sorted! It was unrelated to the browser but some glitch in Win 10 Settings > Mouse. The option to display ‘inactive windows’ when hovered was set to OFF, as it should be. Believing as I do in magic, I switched it ON, and then OFF again ... and voila, fixed!
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Glad to hear you have it sorted. Thanks for reporting your findings.
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Unfortunately that was premature ;-(

The problem is back and that 'cure' was short-lived.

Although Setting > Devices... > 'Mouse Scroll inactive windows when l hover over them' is set to OFF, it's as if it's permanently enabled to ON.

Any ideas?
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But hopefully this

https://www.tenforums.com/general-suppo ... ndows.html

was the cause, although a mystery as to how that option was changed without my knowing.
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terrypin wrote...
although a mystery as to how that option was changed without my knowing.
It's probably because MS doesn't really do enough testing of their "Feature Updates" before releasing them.
The "general public/users" are now the testers.
Those "FU's" have caused a heap of problems.
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