Recently switched back to Firefox. I am happy to break away from the Big Brother dictatorship of Google Chrome and use any extension I want (not Brother-Approved Extensions). I found a strange space between the Identity icon* and the URL text of the address bar. It was about an inch wide. * Usually appears as a lock, sometimes expands to show the identity name, coloring in red or green depending on validation status. This occurs on computers with a finger print reader hardware installed. Firefox picks up the finger print authentication plugin (which however is not used by any Firefox built-in feature, though I'm not sure about Master Password), but it sets all plugins to "Ask to Activate" by default. This causes the fingerprint reader plugin to remain disabled at start-up, causing the weird bug. To solve the problem in Firefox 30.0: Click Menu (three stacked bars) > Add-ons. Click Plugins on the left side of Add-ons Manager. Find the plugin related to y...
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