Published on January 8, 2015 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

Today we have released the WindowBlinds 8.09 beta.  This also addresses the issues from the last update that users reported.

Updated:

  • Fix for a fix for Firefox titlebar issue
  • Added better support for high DPI displays
  • Directory Opus and Skype 7 fixes

You can download the update from your Stardock account.  

 


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on Jan 11, 2015

I uninstalled three times because it kept showing in my programs. After reinstalling and activating, nothing works. I uninstalled again and ran a registry cleaner. Hopefully that will work. If not,then I'm gonna give up. Im tired of wasting the day on one program.

on Jan 12, 2015

Put windowblinds 7 back on this morning. Installed fine. Won't load any skins. Tried to reinstall Windowblinds 8 and it says to install 7 first. Done with windowblinds and win customize. Back to ordinary windows. I guess I wasted my money on all of this.

on Jan 12, 2015

I uninstalled WindowBlinds, rebooted and reinstalled. Still had some issues, so I did another uninstall and reinstalled this morning again.

I can see that the Directory Opus issue is resolved, but my Firefox 34, is still without a title bar. Even the dialogs, like options, comes up without a title bar.

on Jan 12, 2015

Supposedly setting Firefox back to default settings fixes that issue LStatie, there's a thread somewhere here on the site about it but I just can't find it again. 

on Jan 12, 2015

Thank you for the suggestion, LightStar. It worked.

Firefox 34, still looks a bit off, but it is much better than before.

on Jan 12, 2015

LStatie

Thank you for the suggestion, LightStar. It worked.

Firefox 34, still looks a bit off, but it is much better than before.

 

Just realized that the fix is actually in this thread!

 

An alternate way to fix this issue is to go to the Customize Menu in Firefox in the Menu near the Search Box. Or you can go to View - Toolbars - Customize. Open the menu and on the very bottom left you will see a Title Bar button. Click it and the Title Bar will appear and will no longer be transparent. Then exit the Customize Menu.

 

  

on Jan 12, 2015

Thanks for all the help guys.

on Jan 13, 2015

Updated to FireFox v35.0, and it's now crashing immediatly on startup.  The error listing is "wbload.dll".


Firefox 35.0 Crash Report [@ wbload.dll@0xbae8 ]

If I exclude FF from being skinned, then it will start, but the titlebar is solid black, (no tabs or buttons available).

 

Edit:  I did the customization tweak LightStar outlined above, and now FF is runnign again in a usable fashion, albeit without any skinning applied...

on Jan 13, 2015

GAIAStevef

Updated to FireFox v35.0, and it's now crashing immediatly on startup.  The error listing is "wbload.dll".


Firefox 35.0 Crash Report [@ wbload.dll@0xbae8 ]

If I exclude FF from being skinned, then it will start, but the titlebar is solid black, (no tabs or buttons available).

 

Edit:  I did the customization tweak LightStar outlined above, and now FF is runnign again in a usable fashion, albeit without any skinning applied...

Do you have any custom addons in Firefox which possibly mess with text rendering?

on Jan 13, 2015

Do you have any custom addons in Firefox which possibly mess with text rendering?

 

A bunch, yeah,  but even starting FF in safe mode, (or Private mode) without loading any add-ons or extensions
results in the same crash immediatly at startup.

Would it help any if I send you a screenshot of the FF error page entry ?

on Jan 15, 2015

Thank goodness I found this thread. I was going crazy uninstalling firefox and whatnot. Anyway, experiencing the same problem as above. Crash on startup. Titlebar error. Right now, I have firefox as an exclusion on WB (Beta one) and all seems to be ok.

 

on Jan 16, 2015

My first post here so firstly thanks to those who have offered their assistance with these issues. It is very much appreciated.

Regarding Firefox 35 crashing and the title bar showing no controls etc.

This worked for me (Running Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit and WindowBlinds 8.09).

To stop Firefox crashing on startup: (this workaround involves turning of FF's hardware acceleration)

1 Unload WindowBlinds.
2 Start Firefox 35, then Go to 'Options'.
3 Click the 'Advanced' tab and then untick the 'Use hardware acceleration when possible'.
4 Start WindowBlinds again and reapply.

Alternatively instead of unloading WindowBlinds, you could:

-Add Firefox to the 'Per Application' settings and select "Ignore this application and do not skin it'.
-Perform step 2 then 3 mentioned above.
-Before you Reapply the theme; either untick the "Ignore this application and do not skin it' or simply delete the entry since if this works you no longer need it.

Then to restore the title bar and 'minimise/maximise/close' buttons so everything looks right and works:

Do as has been suggested elsewhere here and

1 Start Firefox and select 'Customize'.
2 Turn the 'Title Bar' in the bottom left corner off then on again.

You may need to reapply WindowBlinds again.

This solved both my crashing and title bar issues.

My first post here since I don't stop by very often but I hope this is helpful.

Cheers

 

 

on Jan 16, 2015

GAIAStevef

Do you have any custom addons in Firefox which possibly mess with text rendering?



 

A bunch, yeah,  but even starting FF in safe mode, (or Private mode) without loading any add-ons or extensions
results in the same crash immediatly at startup.

Would it help any if I send you a screenshot of the FF error page entry ?

Unfortunately the address in that error is no help as that's just the throw exception handler and not where the issue is.

If you have further info from the crash could you send it to support@stardock.com please.

on Jan 17, 2015

I've been a member here since 2004 and I joined because the software made a nice change to an other wise boring desk top. I renew every year my subscription to Object Desktop for basically WindowBlinds, SoundPackager, and IconPackager. I use Firefox as my default browser and now I find that I can no longer do that because of windowBlinds. First, let say that I don't know my butt from my elbow about software that's the writers job. I purchase it expecting it to work across the board. I've read to do this and not to do the other. I tried to install Firefox 35, it downloaded and installed  but it crashed upon launch, so I opened WindowBlinds and exited the skin that I was in and chose one of the Aero skins, Aero metal by Stardock Design and Firefox launched and was also skined, but if I choose any other than the Aero skins by Stardock Design well we all know what happens.

Also, I've noticed that the WindowBlinds selections seen to have at least 4 pay skins on almost all the pages, it was not always this way, there seems to only be a handful of skinners. the Last time there was a new IconPackage was back in November of 2014. Soundpackager is worse yet with only two in 2014.

I sincerely hope that this trend will stop or I will have to rethink the value of your product to me.

Thanks for the ten years

Dave Crowell

on Jan 17, 2015

If you read Post #27 above davecrowell it should resolve the issues you are having, it has for others. As far as the amount of skins available for the Stardock software that you use, but unfortunately Stardock cannot force people to design for their products. I too would like to see more icon packages, more of everything for that matter, ut unfortunately it may never happen. I was hoping that Stardock themselves would hire designers to create packages for their software, but then that may mean they may have to charge for them to stay ahead. All we can do is hope.

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