Invisible app problem

[petemc]

For some completely random reason both Firefox and Safari have turned invisible. I've rebooted and theres no change.

http://idisk.mac.com/petermcarr/Public/Pictures/Skitch/Fullscreen-20080618-181127.jpg

You can see there that its invisible. Theres a tooltip which is from a webpage being displayed. When I move over some areas the caret appears for the address bar too. Theres just no reason for this to happen that I can think of. I haven't installed anything new. AFAIK Firefox doesn't use anything that Safari does. Opera is so far unaffected but I need FF really.

[leowyatt]

Are you running the latest verison of firefox?

There is a a fella from the Netherlands on a mac forum I use who is having the same problem but no one has provided a solution yet.

EDIT: just thought are you using spaces? Actually scrub that I'm being daft.

[petemc]

I am. Updated last night but suddenly it just went invisible. I couldn't click on what I thought were links from tooltips as it would revert to Finder. I've updated to OSX 10.5.3 and its visible again.

[leowyatt]

How strange :/

[Chuckles]

What happens if you go to File > New Window?

[petemc]

Bit of HD activity and nothing. Its listed under the windows list though so it *is* there.

[Chuckles]

What about if you press F3 then? That should fit all the windows into the screen?

Have you been using any external monitors or anything?

[petemc]

Its ok now but even using Expose didn't show the window. I do use an external monitor but I have been for months.