Blacked out drop down menus in Firefox

Grumpysally

Can any one help please.

Recently, (possibly since the latest Firefox update, though I'm not sure) I have found that drop down menus, like the forum menu box on this page, shows all the options blacked out except the one that the mouse pointer is on. If I refresh Firefox, it goes back to normal for a few days, but then it's back. It is very annoying. I thought it was Add Blocker but disabling that seems to make no difference.

This doesn't happen in Microsoft Edge.

Thanks

bluesnake

try this
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/983785

esuhl

As above, it sounds like you might have a dodgy add-on or some kind of corruption in your browser profile.

You could try removing (not just disabling) the add-ons individually until you find out which one is causing the problem. (The link in the post above will help.)

Or you could try creating a second user profile in Firefox and testing with that. If it works, install your add-ons, test again, and copy across your cookies/bookmarks, etc.

To open the Firefox Profile Manager, just run this from a command prompt:

firefox -p

The Profile Manager is pretty simple and self-explanatory.

debitcardmayhem

since the OP is using windows 10 she may have changed the windows theme/appearance, this happened to me on Fedora [mine was whited out] just suggested as a possible cause

Grumpysally

Thanks to all the above.
I started Firefox in Safe mode and the menus were fine. I restarted, looked on a page which gave information about everything I had installed on Firefox. And AdBlocker was listed as False, when everything else was listed as true. I don't know what that meant but it sounded dodgy so I installed it and now the menus are back to normal. Unfortunately so are the annoying ads.
(Sorry I cant be more technically specific about how I found the page of information about my Firefox, or what was on the listI sort of flounderd around until I came across it. That's my general approach to technology)
Can anyone recommend a decent and blocker?

Thanks

DavidP24

Alie

I use firefox as well as other browser for different purposes.

I have seen this in firefox when it runs out of memory, it is always leaking memory, here is was using over 3gb



If you terminate from task manager the tabs will reload next time but use less memory until it has leaked some more.

It could be the adblocker but just in case.

If you start a new session on this forum and it occurs again it is an incompatibility but if it occurs after some time I would check your ram.

I use Adblock Plus and Ghostery, you see the ads are not the only problem, it is the tracking that I object to. Ghostery is blocking over 2000 trackers that may be used on billions of sites.

Sure these anonymous little cookie files are harmless, they just direct relevant ads right, er no.

I use the agencies that track you, I can see what they can do!

For example a page with a simple facebook icon that you never click can tell Facebook it is you and vice versa.

As featured on Radio4 You and Yours, the gay guy who used grinder found facebook was recommending as friends people he had engaged with on Grinder and them to him of course.

I heard the same thing happens on PlentyOfFish.

You can run but you can't hide!!

Then you have the hidden cookies like flash cookies, ebay used these to determine whether you are logged in but other sites record your whole flash flle and even write a unique code to it as well as adding their own.

Better Privacy in Firefox will help get rid of these and nuke your settings file.

Grumpysally

DavidP24
I started the day following a 'jokey' conversation on Amazon about Alexia (?) the 'persona' in Amazon's Echo becoming a sentient being and taking over the world. Too late Amazon already has.
Then I later came across an article about 'Hello Barbie' spying on children and promoting negative female stereotypes.

Now you tell me all this!

I'd been using Firefox as a 'privacy friendly' browser.

Where's the 'thanks for scaring the sheet out of me' button?

Robisere

Quick solution, usually works, from the FFox Menu Bar at the top:

"Help" --> "Firefox Help" -->
(big blue button) --> "Refresh Firefox"

I always do this after a FFox update, having had so many problems over th eyears.

DavidP24

AlisonW wrote: »

DavidP24
I started the day following a 'jokey' conversation on Amazon about Alexia (?) the 'persona' in Amazon's Echo becoming a sentient being and taking over the world. Too late Amazon already has.
Then I later came across an article about 'Hello Barbie' spying on children and promoting negative female stereotypes.

Now you tell me all this!

I'd been using Firefox as a 'privacy friendly' browser.

Where's the 'thanks for scaring the sheet out of me' button?

Ha Ha, we need buttons like that.

Sadly it is all true, some agencies figure out stuff about you, almost a suckers list for cookies.

A friend of mine was one of those who objected to facebook aiming ads related to private messages sent via facebook messenger regarding his father's stroke.

What is concerning is when it is shared the Gov was going to share our NHS data without opt in, there was an option to opt out at GP but that is already being reset by accident when updates are done. I opted out of sharing data on the NHS spine when I found companies had accessed my address, it was a temp move while some insurance work was done, only organisation I told was my GP, so I changed it again and put a room number, this also got used.

That data they were going to share, even if anonymous can be connected to data on voters role, on credit reference databases and can identify you.

I think credit ref agencies need far greater regulation and banning of bad practice.

It has got to the stage where you can't use your own name,

I do know of someone who works with children, a few years before taking the job he joined a site where people look for couples to engage with. That was syndicated to all their sites and now he can't get rid of it.

Using Opera gives you a free vpn for browsing if you turn it on, but also use ccleaner once in a while to nuke all the cookies, trackers and vermin, bear in mind anything Google is tracking you, from toolbars to browser. Even their streetview cars hacked and used wireless networks also sniffed and indexed all files they found on insecure PC's etc;

Even the Gov is at it, using crowdsourcing to make connections between government databases that legally have Chinese walls between them.
That is how the terminator scenario actually happens, we give up our data in return for what exactly.

forgotmyname

DavidP24 wrote: »

Ha Ha, we need buttons like that.

Sadly it is all true, some agencies figure out stuff about you, almost a suckers list for cookies.

A friend of mine was one of those who objected to facebook aiming ads related to private messages sent via facebook messenger regarding his father's stroke.

What is concerning is when it is shared the Gov was going to share our NHS data without opt in, there was an option to opt out at GP but that is already being reset by accident when updates are done. I opted out of sharing data on the NHS spine when I found companies had accessed my address, it was a temp move while some insurance work was done, only organisation I told was my GP, so I changed it again and put a room number, this also got used.

That data they were going to share, even if anonymous can be connected to data on voters role, on credit reference databases and can identify you.

I think credit ref agencies need far greater regulation and banning of bad practice.

It has got to the stage where you can't use your own name,

I do know of someone who works with children, a few years before taking the job he joined a site where people look for couples to engage with. That was syndicated to all their sites and now he can't get rid of it.

Using Opera gives you a free vpn for browsing if you turn it on, but also use ccleaner once in a while to nuke all the cookies, trackers and vermin, bear in mind anything Google is tracking you, from toolbars to browser. Even their streetview cars hacked and used wireless networks also sniffed and indexed all files they found on insecure PC's etc;

Even the Gov is at it, using crowdsourcing to make connections between government databases that legally have Chinese walls between them.
That is how the terminator scenario actually happens, we give up our data in return for what exactly.

FREE STUFF!!! And to watch fluffy kittens falling of the sofa which is also free of course.

Windows 10 anyone

Anyone found FREE apps installing themselves on windows 10 yet? Being force fed dodgy apps. What a wonderful OS.