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Bottom of screen has disappeared

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Aoife96
Aoife96
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The bottom part of my screen has completely disappeared, it's just a black line. My task bar is gone also. I cannot click on the black space. And when I close down firefox my whole desk top is also gone. Yesterday the laptop was running slow so I opened up task mananger to close down some programmes and I fear I may have closed down some important programmes.

The bottom part of my screen has completely disappeared, it's just a black line. My task bar is gone also. I cannot click on the black space. And when I close down firefox my whole desk top is also gone. Yesterday the laptop was running slow so I opened up task mananger to close down some programmes and I fear I may have closed down some important programmes.

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Andrew
Andrew
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Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a Clean reinstall. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:

Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.

  1. Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org and save the setup file to your computer.
  2. After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
  3. Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
    • Windows:
      • C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
    • Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
    • Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
  4. Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
    1. Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
    2. Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.

Please report back to see if this helped you!

cor-el
cor-el
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You can also try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

You can check for problems with the localstore.rdf file.