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Using Tab, Typing in Menu Bar opens irritating drop down page.

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Whenever I am typing in the search bar, or the menu bar, an irritating drop-down menu appears. When I am in a regular page and try to tab from text box to text box the same #@#$ thing happens.

Whenever I hit "Command C" to copy and later paste--same stupid drop-down. It is so irritating I am down grading FF to 13 until it is solved.

Whenever I am typing in the search bar, or the menu bar, an irritating drop-down menu appears. When I am in a regular page and try to tab from text box to text box the same #@#$ thing happens. Whenever I hit "Command C" to copy and later paste--same stupid drop-down. It is so irritating I am down grading FF to 13 until it is solved.

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Start Firefox in Safe 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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Doctor X
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Here be a screen shot of the issue:

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Chosen Solution

Start Firefox in Safe 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).

Doctor X
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YAY!!!1!!!

Here is the problem for the next fool who messes with settings:

Preferences --> Advanced --> Uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available

I did this after opening in Safe Mode

Problem completely solved! Thanks for the quick reply!

Now . . . I am at . . . peace. . . .

--J.D.

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