Firefox windows "bouncing"

[amheck]

Well, I just seem to be having bad luck with browsers lately. My IE quit being able to use the BACK button when searching. It would seem to loose all of the data and even hitting refresh wouldn't help. So I came here asking for help and people said to go use Firefox, so I did.

Well, I've been using it for a few days and certain pages that I load, the window will seem to bounce up and down really fast and constant. Has anyone experienced this before? Some pages do it, other don't. Others work fine 1 time, and not the next. Hitting refresh will reload the page and usually get the movement to stop.

Any ideas?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Bounce up and down? I've never noticed that in FF and I've been using it for over a year.

 

[HN]

could be several things:

1. when there's a "bounce", check to see if an extra bar is near the top telling you that there might be additional plugins needed for the page or that a popup was blocked (similar to the information bar in IE)

2. you have it set so that the tab bar does not appear when you do not have any tabs. so when you trigger another tab, the bar then shows.

 

[amheck]

Thanks for the responses guys. Yes, it's constantly bouncing up and down.

I had first thought it was a msg at the top of the screen like #1, but I don't see anything. It's like its caught in a loop and just keep refreshing and end up bouncing.

Do you know the settings I check for #2 above?

 

[HN]

Originally posted by: amheck

Do you know the settings I check for #2 above?

Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> "hide the tab bar when only one web site is open"

Another thing to consider is the scroll wheel on your mouse (if you have one, of course). on my older intellimouse optical it does this up and down movement real fast (like seizure inducing fast).

 

[n0cmonkey]

Are you using a custom (ie. non-standard) Windows XP theme?

 

[amheck]

I am actually. I downloaded WindowBlinds the other week. DO you think that could have something to do with it?

 

[amheck]

Well, I uninstalled WindowBlinds and that might have done it. Thanks so much! Sometimes the bouncing was a little hard to reproduce when I wanted to, so I'll surf around tonite, but this might have done it!

What made you suggest a non-WinXP theme as a possible problem?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: amheck
Well, I uninstalled WindowBlinds and that might have done it. Thanks so much! Sometimes the bouncing was a little hard to reproduce when I wanted to, so I'll surf around tonite, but this might have done it!

What made you suggest a non-WinXP theme as a possible problem?

It's a "known issue." :beer:

 

[amheck]

Cool. Well, thanks again. :beer: to you too