Nvidia driver 380*, WB and PaleMoon browser titlebar

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Hi,

Since Nvidia updated their drivers to version 38* and upwards I get a bug in my browser of choice, PaleMoon: the titlebar starts to flicker (disappears and reappears) as I move cursor over sites displayed in browser window. This has never been a problem with previous drivers up to 378.92, which I am using currently to avoid the problem.

In my troubleshooting I did the following:

-used default PaleMoon skin and WB  themes (my own theme and the ones shipped with WB): problem persists

-used custom PaleMoon skin and WB themes: problem persists

- switched to default Windows 10 theme in WB and the problem goes away (both in default and custom PM themes)

-I observed that the titlebar disappears when the browser displays a site, as opposed to displaying e.g. addons selection menu

 

Anyways, the problem is eliminated by either disabling WB or downgrading Nvidia drivers. Oh and btw, the problem exists on both WB 10.6 and 10.6.1 (beta).

Hope you guys can shed light on this. If you need any other info I'll be glad to provide it.

 

And this is my "About" window of WB:

Windows 10 Home (15063.rs2_release.170317-1834)
WindowBlinds 10.6 (042 - Windows 10 Edition) - 64 bit OS

Window titlebar blur features are enabled on this operating system

        Wblind.dll                   2017/03/27 18:42:41
        Wblind64.dll                 2017/03/27 18:42:46
        Wbsrv.dll                    2017/03/16 19:16:46
        WB10Config.exe               2017/03/27 18:42:09
        Wbload.dll                   2017/03/22 15:59:51
        Screen10.exe                 2016/09/12 20:04:17

windowblinds
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm sure Neil will be 'happy' to get the report...;)

I've found that sometimes getting whatever-the-newest-driver-is isn't always the greatest plan.  Too often you're in the cutting-edge of new-found-bugs...;)

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have the same exact problem !!!!  I run an   ASUS GTX 970 Turbo  graphics card with the latest Nvidia graphics drivers installed. I also started to suddenly have problems with the titlebar. I replaced the graphics driver with the older graphics drivers  378.xx and the problem just went away. Thanks for this post, extremely helpful info here.

-- Ace --

EDIT: System Info. 

Windows 7 SP 1

Chrome browser

WindowBlinds 10 beta version

SoundPackager - Customize the Windows sound scheme
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

hello,

 

today Windows installed the 382.05 driver on its own and the problem described above has returned. I can revert the drivers, but this is gonna come back soon. Have you guys looked into this?

 

I needed to change my network connection to "metered" type to prevent the system from updating Nvidia driver. I'd really appreciate some feedback on this: is it even considered as a WB-related problem?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello again,

 

today I've downloaded WB beta10.64, the newest Nvidia driver, along with the uptodate PaleMoon browser (27.4.2), and the problem described in the first post still remains. Is there any hope for a fix in a future update?

Let me stress that the flickering titlebar has been a problem ever since Nvidia released 380 driver, and the problem only occurs when WB is running.