Anybody else having a problem with foxfire? I recently installed Windows 7. As of yesterday, the website screen shows when I put my cursur on the Mozilla icon and disappears when I click on it. When I right click, it shows that the screen is already at maximum size. The really weird thing is that if I click on the Firefox icon, the website page floats like a ghost off to the right side of the computer screen and disappears.

I kid you not!

I called my pc tech and he's going to stop by when he can to see what I'm talking about. It's the weirdest thing I've seen.

IE works fine and since I don't completely trust it, I just downloaded Google Chrome. I also ready an GB post from last fall and found several other options to try. So I still have internet access. Still I hope to find out what causing this Foxfire problem.

butterflybabe, I think the problem, at least part of it, is connected to Windows 7 and a built-in ability to use dual monitors. Just a guess but the same thing you describe has happened to me on several occasions, the last couple of times when I was playing Serpent Moon. I would click on the game icon, which had minimized itself to the taskbar, and it would not come up. Instead, it flew off to the right side of my monitor and disappeared. I found out what was happening by chance when I took a screenshot of my desktop. Looking at the screenshot, I could see not one desktop but two!

Try taking a screenshot of your desktop and see if that happens. If it does, here's the fix that worked for me. Go to Control Panel>Appearance and Personalization>Display>Screen Resolution. Out by Multiple Displays, select "show desktop only on 1". Hit Apply and OK.

That should stop the flyaway program, at least.

edit~ By 'game icon', I mean the actual game or program had minimized to the taskbar. Left or right clicking did no good at all to get it to come up full screen. The only way I stopped that was by doing what I described above. In my case, it was definitely not Opera or the game or anything but Win 7 acting up on me and I suspect the same thing is true for you.

Gil.

Thanks Traveler,
It sounded like a Windows 7 animation, but I wasn't sure which feature it was connected with.

It's really freaky when it happens, Jenny100, and for someone who knows little about computers, it's scary. It was here in Glitches that one of you pointed me in the right direction to fix it and once again, I thank you all very much.

edit~ Btw, it doesn't happen all the time, just in case I left you with the impression that it did. I might go for a day or two with everything working as it should before it happened again. So I wouldn't think that IE working correctly for butterflybabe means anything.

edit~ I'm editing this to death, I know, but I wanted to add that rebooting would sometimes help but a couple of times, before I realized what the problem was, I went to the extreme of doing a System Restore to get things back to normal. That 'fix' never stuck.

Gil.

traveler - you're an angel!!!!!

I did have screen 1 chosen but, now, I also changed the 'multiple displays' from 'extended' to 'show desktop only on 1'. Clicked on firefox and bingo, as if nothing ever happened!

Here I was trying to figure out what I might have downloaded that messed things up.

Thank goodness for my awesome friends at GB & esp to you, traveler!

That's great, butterflybabe! I know I nearly went crazy wondering what was wrong with my brand new computer and, really, if it wasn't for Jenny and Inland, et al, I'd still be cuckoo. Lol! I'm so glad you've got this straightened out!

Gil.