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What is the bar that appears at the top of pages and how do I get rid of it?

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Whenever a page is showing on the screen, a bar appears at the top of the page with a lot of squares ending with a square that says "diagnose." It sometimes causes a printing problem when the document prints out so small that you can't read it.

Whenever a page is showing on the screen, a bar appears at the top of the page with a lot of squares ending with a square that says "diagnose." It sometimes causes a printing problem when the document prints out so small that you can't read it.

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That seems to have done it. Thanks!!!!!

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It sounds like some kind of advertising. Often behaviors that affect multiple sites are caused by an add-on, particularly an extension. You may want to review your extensions on the following page and disable ALL nonessential extensions.

orange Firefox button or classic Tools menu > Add-ons > Extensions category

After restarting Firefox, is the bar gone?

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Can you attach a screenshot?

Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.

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The "screenshot" is attached.

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It's the SEOquake mini-bar from http://www.seoquake.com/

Edit: Or an imitator...

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer

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How do I get rid of it or do I really want to?

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It's an extension. Please see my earlier post about disabling unwanted extensions.

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That seems to have done it. Thanks!!!!!