With OLED screens, screen burn in is a serious and annoying issue. I understand your need to auto-hide the taskbar. Can you please attach the screenshot of your desktop window where this is occurring?

And just for troubleshooting, can you please do the following

1. Close all running instances of Firefox
2. In Windows 10 Settings > Taskbar Settings disable the option, Automatically hide the taskbar in desktop mode Please refer to the attached screenshot for more details.
3. start firefox browser.
4. Maximize the browser by using the key combination ALT + Spacebar and then selecting the option Maximize
5. Enable the Autohide of the taskbar in desktop mode in the setting.
6. Check if the browser takes up the entire screen

If you are genuinely concerned by OLED burn-in, you should be using floating windows rather than maximized ones.

Third-party software may interfere with the taskbar autohide mechanism, try disabling graphics overlays like Nvidia's FPS counter and other third-party modules in about:third-party.

@ixian, Thanks for replying => I have done what you said, using ALT+spacebar was no change. For the screenshot I have attached 2 pics of chrome and firefox behaviour respectively. In firefox cursor moved to the border doesn't doesn't brings up taskbar whereas in chorme case it does. (CLEARLY VISIBLE IN PIC)

@zeroknight, Thanks for replying => My PC has only CPU integrated graphics, no dedicated card at all, so drivers issue is not possible at all. About third party, I uploaded respective image, what should I do with them, are they causing this issue? I cann't use floating window because of decreased usable space.

In the end I just wish firefox to unhide taskbar like chrome is doing, when cursor moves to extreme end.

Try changing browser.launcherProcess.enabled to false in about:config temporarily, then change it back to true and restart the browser.

@zeroknight => I did Exactly as you told, but the problem still persist. Even forks like Librewolf and Floorp which are based on much older version of firefox, has the same issue. I think the problem lies in core functionality of FF, on which FF team should definitely work upon. Furthermore, no chromium based browser\forks suffer from this problem. Still, any more suggestion-troubleshoot advice is welcome and thanks for replying.

Try to use normal mode and drag the window as large as possible instead of using maximized mode.

Try to rename/remove xulstore.json in the Firefox profile folder with Firefox closed.

You can use the button on the "Help -> More Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page (Root directory).

• Help -> More Troubleshooting Information -> Profile Folder/Directory:
  Windows: Open Folder; Linux: Open Directory; Mac: Show in Finder
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

@cor-el Thanks for replying => Though I have already tried it before, but did it again as you mentioned and just as before the problem still persists. Because I have just 1 PC, I cann't even verify it on other system. Does taksbar un-hide perfectely works for you guys when FF is maximised ?

@ixian, Thanks for replying => I have done what you said, using ALT+spacebar was no change. For the screenshot I have attached 2 pics of chrome and firefox behaviour respectively. In firefox cursor moved to the border doesn't doesn't brings up taskbar whereas in chorme case it does. (CLEARLY VISIBLE IN PIC) @zeroknight, Thanks for replying => My PC has only CPU integrated graphics, no dedicated card at all, so drivers issue is not possible at all. About third party, I uploaded respective image, what should I do with them, are they causing this issue? I cann't use floating window because of decreased usable space. In the end I just wish firefox to unhide taskbar like chrome is doing, when cursor moves to extreme end.

What @zeroknight said is also relevant. The task bar may not auto-hide due to interference from other applications or changes in the status of system icons. For example Windows Security Notification icon, Nvidia's icons, bit torrent applications, etc can also cause it.

@cor-el Thanks for replying => Though I have already tried it before, but did it again as you mentioned and just as before the problem still persists. Because I have just 1 PC, I cann't even verify it on other system. Does taksbar un-hide perfectely works for you guys when FF is maximised ?

I have a windows 10 22H2 computer. It is running Firefox 124.0.2. When I did the steps that I had given earlier, it worked for me. I have kept it on till now and the taskbar autohides. I am assuming that your setup is similar.

Hello, Everyone, For me doing this resolved the issue => I am using 'Built In Administrator account' as my primary account and its the only account on computer.

Firefox.exe > Properties > Compatibility > Change setting for all users > Change high DPI settings > Override High DPI Scaling (Application).

After this taskbar auto-hide and unhide worked as expected in FF maximised mode.

Hello, FF 125.03 on Windows 11 Pro 22H2

Auto-hide taskbar is broken for me after the update and I did change the DPI and still not working for me.

Taskbar hide but cannot bring it back up with mouse.

@qproject101, Try to go deeper => Properties > Compatibility > Change setting for all users > Change high DPI settings > Override High DPI Scaling (Application)

@qproject101, Try to go deeper => Properties > Compatibility > Change setting for all users > Change high DPI settings > Override High DPI Scaling (Application)

Sorry, I've fixed the issue. I had Nvidia App Beta installed and to resolve the issue I disable Nvidia App > reboot and re-enable Nvidia App.

The latest update seems to break taskbar from Nvidia.

Thanks for the quick reply.

This started happening to me a couple of months ago, but clears itself if I close and restart FF. I haven't tried these solutions, since a FF restart fixes it, but it's a pain in the rear. Just adding my 2 cents worth. I don't know if it's relevant, but I have at least 20-30 Tabs open in FF.

HP laptop 17z-ca100 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz 12.0 GB RAM (9.91 GB usable) Win 10 Home v22H2 Build 19045.4529 64-bit FF 127.0.2 (64-bit)

So I started having this issue after the most recent FF update, but I also use StartAllBack to get the old style customizable taskbar from Win 10/8/7. Didn't think that was the issue because all other programs functioned as expected with autohide on. I tried all the steps here, and even the DPI adjustment for all users lasted until I minimized and then reopened FF.

Then I remembered way back on Win8, I used to have a similar issue with the taskbar not behaving as designed (would never auto-hide at all upon start-up), and a fix I stumbled across myself was opening up a file explorer window, opening task manager, ending/reopening file explorer there, and voila, taskbar started behaving as designed.

Looks like this FF update may have brought back that old bug because I tried that fix and the taskbar is perfect now! Pops up and disappears with the cursor no problem. Not sure if it'll last after a restart, but honestly its such a quick workaround that it doesn't even bother me lol

It's also worth noting that the taskbar has to be wide enough for the day to show under the time. Anything narrower and it's back to the same issue. OP, you're definitely the only other person I've seen with a right-aligned taskbar, I wonder if that's a contributing factor, especially given that that's not even an option in Win11 anymore :')

I too have this problem and use StartAllBack. Ema's fix works temporarily but I find it comes back after restart. I also noticed that Windows' Do Not Disturb automatically enables when I fullscreen FF. My guess would be Windows is detecting FF as a fullscreen application rather than a maximised application and therefore is preventing taskbar unhiding ?

I am replying again after a long time, since I did a fresh install of 'Windows11_IoT Enterprise_23H2_22631.4169' along with FF-ESR(synced account), everything is working fine, and can't tell particularly what fixed the issue. All I can advice others who are still facing the issue, to try FF-ESR install in VMWare having fresh windows install and if its working there then it must be some apps or windows account setting which often resets after creating a new one thereby solving the related issue.