# FF 38, I've lost access to many of little boxes used to select options on several sites **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ff-38-ive-lost-access-to-many-of-little-boxes-used-to-select-options-on-several-sites/720375 "2015-05-19T16:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ff-38-ive-lost-access-to-many-of-little-boxes-used-to-select-options-on-several-sites/720375/1 "2015-05-19T16:59:04Z")
Most sites have little boxes to click ‘‘like’’ or ‘flag as spam’ or some such. I have lost many of these. Yahoo email is\* **unusable** \*. Gmail works fine. Some like SDMB appear as always. Some like Gardenweb and [weather.com](http://weather.com) most options still function but the little picture is gone. Usually there is an empty rectangle where the option should be, History: I was mindlessly running some utility like avast and it said upgrade FF to 38.0.1 which I mindlessly did. Now parts of my internet are different. Parts like Yahoo are unusable. First, trivial perhaps, what are these little boxes called? How would you suggest I go back to ‘‘normal’’. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ff-38-ive-lost-access-to-many-of-little-boxes-used-to-select-options-on-several-sites/720375/2 "2015-05-19T17:13:33Z")
Not sure if it’s related, but the upgrade disabled my “close” button under the theme I was using (BlackFox Blue). I had to change to another skin that used the standard trio of buttons to make it work again. I suspect a hook or some overlay code is screwed up or incompatible with the new rev. I am in the camp that thinks it’s time to wave bye-bye to Firefox. It’s gone down the path of being too big, too bloated, too complicated for an open-source tool to remain fully functional for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ff-38-ive-lost-access-to-many-of-little-boxes-used-to-select-options-on-several-sites/720375/3 "2015-05-19T17:51:23Z")
Those are checkboxes in HTML. First thing to do when any browser goes awry is to disable all add-ons and restart and see how things look. If they look fine, re-enable add-ons one at a time to see if you can find the culprit. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ff-38-ive-lost-access-to-many-of-little-boxes-used-to-select-options-on-several-sites/720375/4 "2015-05-19T18:50:09Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Those are checkboxes in HTML. > > First thing to do when any browser goes awry is to disable all add-ons and restart and see how things look. If they look fine, re-enable add-ons one at a time to see if you can find the culprit. The first step can be accomplished by Shift-clicking when starting Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ff-38-ive-lost-access-to-many-of-little-boxes-used-to-select-options-on-several-sites/720375/5 "2015-05-19T20:15:34Z")
Thanks. Did a system restore, part of that safe mode restart and lost all my add-ons. Now I see adverts on SDMB but can use Yahoo. I think I liked it better when it wasn’t working quite right. I cannot figure out which Firefox I now have.I’m assuming it must be 18.0.1. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ff-38-ive-lost-access-to-many-of-little-boxes-used-to-select-options-on-several-sites/720375/6 "2015-05-21T09:20:55Z")
Go ahead and upgrade Firefox, and install Adblock Plus.