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One really annoying issue I have is that sometimes when I am posting, browsing Neowin, the Leaderboard ad (the one in the header of Neowin) sometimes loads in a blank page, so I have to press back.

I have AdBlock installed, but Neowin is obviously white-listed, and funnily enough I haven't experienced the same problem on other whitelisted sites.

This only happens in the beta versions of Firefox (not the proper 3.x release).

What happened to the porn mode (or "Private Browsing" :whistle:) in the betas? Did Mozilla dropped it?

Private browsing is still in there. But you need to use "Alt" to get the menu to find the option. The Firefox button has hardly any options in atm.

Am I right when I say there's no way of fixing this yet?

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(The space above the "Minefield" button)

It happens when I maximise a window and also prevents me from using the "Pull" away feature of windows 7 to move a maximised window if I click above the button.

I did try finding info about it on the FF forum but I have no idea what it's called.

I'm on the latest nightly

Am I right when I say there's no way of fixing this yet?

post-34378-12803454461525.jpg

(The space above the "Minefield" button)

It happens when I maximise a window and also prevents me from using the "Pull" away feature of windows 7 to move a maximised window if I click above the button.

I did try finding info about it on the FF forum but I have no idea what it's called.

I'm on the latest nightly

It looks like a stylish script or modified userChrome.css has created some unnecessary padding.

One really annoying issue I have is that sometimes when I am posting, browsing Neowin, the Leaderboard ad (the one in the header of Neowin) sometimes loads in a blank page, so I have to press back.

I have AdBlock installed, but Neowin is obviously white-listed, and funnily enough I haven't experienced the same problem on other whitelisted sites.

This only happens in the beta versions of Firefox (not the proper 3.x release).

I have the exact same problem on Neowin. I've got adblock installed too and Neowin is also white-listed. Haven't noticed it occurring on any other sites.

hmmm might be it... I don't have stylish or greasemonkey active anymore but I have in the past... I don't have a custom userchrome set, I'll create a temp profile and see how I get on, thanks.

Edit: Nope... a new profile results in the same UI error >.<

if you have a custom windows theme set its possible that that is causing the issue (just a thought)

One really annoying issue I have is that sometimes when I am posting, browsing Neowin, the Leaderboard ad (the one in the header of Neowin) sometimes loads in a blank page, so I have to press back.

I have AdBlock installed, but Neowin is obviously white-listed, and funnily enough I haven't experienced the same problem on other whitelisted sites.

This only happens in the beta versions of Firefox (not the proper 3.x release).

Same problem here, but I have no extensions installed whatsoever. Never happened in 3.5 either for me, so it must be something in the beta.

if you have a custom windows theme set its possible that that is causing the issue (just a thought)

aha! That's it. Whist I don't have a custom theme set, I do turn off border padding under "Window color and appearance" I personally prefer to not have horrible big borders around my Aero windows :p When I set it back to the default (4) I don't get this

I've logged it on Bugzilla... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582819

I know I'm "customising" my Windows UI, but it should be able to be fixed in firefox ya?

One really annoying issue I have is that sometimes when I am posting, browsing Neowin, the Leaderboard ad (the one in the header of Neowin) sometimes loads in a blank page, so I have to press back.

I have AdBlock installed, but Neowin is obviously white-listed, and funnily enough I haven't experienced the same problem on other whitelisted sites.

This only happens in the beta versions of Firefox (not the proper 3.x release).

It's a problem due to the interaction between some of the AD scripts and the HTML5 parser, every so often the ad scripts will overwrite the entire page content with their code.

At least I think that's what you're describing :laugh: I'm seeing an issue with the ads because of that, but it might be different.

According to this page:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases

Beta 3 has slipped to a release date of August 20th.

What was the original release date? How do you know it's slipped?

Same problem here, but I have no extensions installed whatsoever. Never happened in 3.5 either for me, so it must be something in the beta.

Good to know. I'm still experiencing it but at least now I know there's no need to start seeing if an extension is causing it.

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