Yes, that does look like a

JeevesBond — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:56:29 +0000

Yes, that does look like a Vista/Firefox bug, it could also be an extension issue. Very weird, and one of those 'deep' bugs that are ridiculously difficult to reproduce.

I had the same problem and

cmoyer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:05:52 +0000

I had the same problem and after disabling the theme and chosing a different one it worked fine. I have no idea about what part of the theme was causing it and I havn't been able to replicate it. The theme was some vista theme I believe.

It may be a firefox bug...

A sweep with SpyBot

decibel.places — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:03:54 +0000

A sweep with SpyBot temporarily restored Firefox, but the problems soon reoccurred.

A comment on the Firefox Support Forum led me to the page about Firefox Safe Mode

First I tried resetting the toolbars.

Then I disabled all addons and VOILA - and I re-enabled the ones I really use without any problem (Firebug, Web Developer, MeasureIt, Colorzilla, RankQuest, a few more) \

happy happy joy joy