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May 1, 2007
Tips & Tricks
Jitters in your optic nerves? Maybe it's really your browser window.
By Sandra Rosenzweig
The moment I installed the 2.x version of Mozilla Firefox, my browser window started shaking?coffee nerves, no doubt. This didn't happen with any other application. A thorough Google search on the problem brought up nothing. I uninstalled and reinstalled the new Firefox, twice. After a week of all Internet Explorer, all the time, I went to the www.getfirefox.com website. A search on window shakes led me to the culprit: It turns out that a bug in Firefox makes the screen constantly blink if the Bookmarks Toolbar is empty. Put one link (bookmark) into that folder, and the entire problem is solved. Now you know.
The moment I installed the 2.x version of Mozilla Firefox, my browser window started shaking?coffee nerves, no doubt. This didn't happen with any other application. A thorough Google search on the problem brought up nothing. I uninstalled and reinstalled the new Firefox, twice. After a week of all Internet Explorer, all the time, I went to the www.getfirefox.com website. A search on window shakes led me to the culprit: It turns out that a bug in Firefox makes the screen constantly blink if the Bookmarks Toolbar is empty. Put one link (bookmark) into that folder, and the entire problem is solved. Now you know.
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Megan Kinneyn
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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