anybody have any idea what I have done here?

[Kali]

did I hit some setting by mistake? it kind of looks like I tried to highlight something. I went to look at a profile and two of the buttons were black and the letters in one don't show, checked other profiles including my own, still black, and there is a little bit on the bottom of the ignore tab too. WTH?

Look at the profile, transparency, and ignore buttons:



for that matter, is the bar that says "my profile" supposed to be black? I can't remember what normal is there.

[steve2470]

1. try restarting the browser and see what happens....

if that doesn't work, what browser and what operating system ?

[Kali]

4. D'OH

yeah I will try that, I didn't want to restart the whole machine quite yet tonight as it has gotten boggy at start up, afraid it is trying to tell me to back up files and start shopping for a replacement.

windows 7 home 64 bit and firefox

[steve2470]

6. is it better now ? if not...we go to Defcon 3 :p nt

[Kali]

7. that did it!

thanks! it was downright irritating, if not a major disaster.

[steve2470]

8. glad we could help :) nt

[Kali]

10. any idea what it was?

or why it happened?

[steve2470]

11. it might have been a bug in Firefox

I've had browsers do that before, usually IE. When I restarted, it usually went away.

[arcane1]

2. No idea! But the "My Profile" part is black for me too, if that helps.

[Kali]

5. a little, thanks!

[NYC_SKP]

3. Try different browser, reboot

It'll probably go away.
Good luck!

[Kali]

9. restarting my browser did the trick!

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machine is boggy at start up so was going to wait for a full reboot in the morning.

any ideas for that slow starting? it actually starts good but then will bog for 10 minutes about 15 or 20 minutes into whatever I am doing. also firefox keeps messaging me at the bottom of the page "mozilla firefox seems slow... to... start. and has two buttons "learn how to speed it up" and "don't tell me again"

but even other non browsing functions bog at start up - I was trying to scan some documents this morning and it took forever for every click to react. or for menus to show up. know what I mean? scanner worked fine, but it would take forever for the action to start or for the image to open up...

[NYC_SKP]

12. You know, not just windows but macs, too, slow down over time.

For PCs, I used to run utilities and defragment the drives, but not sure if that applies anymore.

The other slower-downers are any applications running in the background, printer things and virus scanners and all sorts of stuff.

I'm not sure these days what steps to take with the newer PCs, I just know that there are cures and the are do it yourself things, not downloadable fixes, which are often scams.

So watch out!

[Newest Reality]

13. Try this:

Options - Advanced - General: uncheck Hardware Acceleration.

I had that problem and researched it. The HA can cause problems with some systems or video cards.

[Fumesucker]

14. I have Win 7 64 bit and I've found Cyberfox to be better than Firefox on it

Cyberfox is a version of Firefox specifically for the 64 bit OS, Firefox is really draggy on my machine as well, Cyberfox doesn't have that problem.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cyberfox/

[Go Vols]

15. This is much quicker

appreciate it.