Flashing directional bars?

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  denmick · Member · Dec 9, 2011 at 4:35 am

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  I have a flashing direction bar above my task bar that only appears when the page is idle. This only happens on my blog, no other sites have this flashing bar. The flashing bar is random and not regular. I can provide a screen shot of the bar as it appears through e-mail if it would help.
  This problem only occurs on my Dell Mini 10 with Windows 7 Starter OS.

  This problem has appeared recently within the past two weeks and does not occur on any other computer I have accessed my WordPress Blog.

  It does not appear on this page either, just my blog page.

  Weird

  Thanks for fixing my bolding issue yesterday too.

  send me an e-mail and I will forward you the screen shot if it helps.

  Thank’s, Den
  Blog url: http://dancingwithfools.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Dec 9, 2011 at 11:54 am

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  Can you please try clearing out your cache and cookies?

  Also make sure you are running the latest browser version. Do you also encounter this issue in a different browser? for example Firefox or Google Chrome?

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  denmick · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 12:32 am

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  I have Firefox set to delete cache on closing, I have deleted all unnecessary cookies and went into Win 7 and deleted all temp files, still the flashing bar persists.

  Next?

  This has only been happening since the snowflakes showed up if that helps.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 10, 2011 at 12:47 am

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  Does it improve if you disable the snow in the Settings section of your blog’s Dashboard?

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  denmick · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 1:12 am

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  No difference, the flashing only occurs when the blog page is idle

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 10, 2011 at 1:14 am

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  Ok, so with the snow disabled it’s still Flashing? Did you try clearing your cache again after disabling the snow?

  If so, which version of Firefox are you using?

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  denmick · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 1:17 am

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  I unchecked the snow box ans clicked save settings and it is still snowing.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 10, 2011 at 1:17 am

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  Ok, that’s odd. Can you try disabling snow site-wide for your account via Users -> Personal Settings in your Dashboard?

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  denmick · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 1:18 am

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  Firefox 8.0.1 going to restart Firefox now to delete cache.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 10, 2011 at 1:19 am

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  Excellent, let us know if that’s any better!

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  denmick · Member · Dec 10, 2011 at 1:31 am

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  OK snow stopped and so did flashing bar after restarting Firefox, did not have to go into personal settings. Might have cured it, one can only hope. Posted a comment and still no flashing bar, YAY!

  I sure wish you folks would quit changing stuff without notification, I know you think it is improving things but issues like this show it is not always true. I did like the snow but somehow there is a conflicting issue with Windows 7, Firefox and WordPress and digital snow.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 10, 2011 at 8:10 pm

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  Actually, we did make a notification about adding the snow: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/its-getting-cold-in-here/

  I recommend subscribing to http://en.blog.wordpress.com/ for future notifications.

  Can you tell us which version of Firefox you’re using and if you have any add-ons installed?

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  denmick · Member · Dec 11, 2011 at 4:52 pm

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  I could tell you but I already did once, scroll up, no add-ons.