Do you still see the Status Bar (View > Status Bar) ? It is possible that the screen is too high and that the status bar and scroll bar fall off at the bottom. Open the system menu via Alt+Space and see if you can resize that window. If that works then close Firefox to save that setting. See also: * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resizing_oversize_window * http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf ---- Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks. *Java Plug-in 1.6.0 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper) Update the [[Java]] plugin to the latest version. *http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Java Platform: Download JRE)