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Minimise, maxamise, and close buttons dissapear on firefox after opening laptop.

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When I am at school I will be running firefox in one class. Alot of times I have to leave firefox running on my laptop and go to another class and start from where I left off. Upon opening my laptop the minimize, maximize, and close buttons and sometimes other buttons completely dissipear. I am running windows 8.1 fully updated, and my firefox is updated to the latest version. I have also tried turning off "use of hardware acceleration when available" in setting, and yet none of this has helped the problem.

When I am at school I will be running firefox in one class. Alot of times I have to leave firefox running on my laptop and go to another class and start from where I left off. Upon opening my laptop the minimize, maximize, and close buttons and sometimes other buttons completely dissipear. I am running windows 8.1 fully updated, and my firefox is updated to the latest version. I have also tried turning off "use of hardware acceleration when available" in setting, and yet none of this has helped the problem.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window

You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.

You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver.

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bigmac13
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Here is a screenshot of the problem.

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Chosen Solution

Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.

  • Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window

You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.

You can check if there is an update for your graphics display driver.