My "new tab plus sign" keeps moving
Normally the plus sign to click when you want a new tab is located adjacent to the last open tab on the right. With Firefox 57, my plus sign now hops randomly between that position and a spot at the far right side of the tab bar, regardless how many tabs are open. At first I thought it just disappeared but then on closer observation discovered the migrating behavior. I've even seen it change positions while I'm moving my mouse pointer over web pages.
I suppose people who normally have many tabs open might not see this since their tabs are already piled up across the screen, but I usually only have a couple of tabs open so it's quite obvious when that plus sign changes position.
Ideas or suggestions would be appreciated!
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What are those icons or buttons that you have placed on the left-side of the Tab Bar?
I have seen that "floating around" Open a new tab button glitch occur when the "wrong" add-on toolbar button is placed on the left-side of the Tab Bar. And it seems to happen more often when the Menu Bar is set to show all the time.
As far as "wrong" add-on - typically an older extension which was originally created in the days before Firefox 4.0.
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Sorry, I wrote the wrong Firefox version above. I'm on 55.0.3.
Sorry again, should have also stated it's Firefox for Windows.
To illustrate the above problem I've taken two screenshots showing. Image A shows the plus sign adjacent to the last open tab, Image B shows the plus sign at it's alternate position.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Appearance
- do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems
Try to click the Restore Defaults button in the Customize palette window to restore the default toolbar set to see whether that works better.
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What are those icons or buttons that you have placed on the left-side of the Tab Bar?
I have seen that "floating around" Open a new tab button glitch occur when the "wrong" add-on toolbar button is placed on the left-side of the Tab Bar. And it seems to happen more often when the Menu Bar is set to show all the time.
As far as "wrong" add-on - typically an older extension which was originally created in the days before Firefox 4.0.
@the-edmeister: Those icons on the left side of the tab bar are pinned tabs; I believe that's normally where Firefox places them.
@cor-el: Thank you for the suggestions, I'll experiment with that and report back later.