What is causing a- new message "area/transparent thing" at bottom

Hello:
I dont know what to call the thing I am seeing on my screen. [please see screenshot.]
It has just started to appear in last 3 days. I upgraded to 34.0.5 and it is still there.
How do I determine why it is now showing or what is causing it to show?
It happens on all web pages. Its like a new style pop up (but i have pop-up option turned OFF) so i dont think its a pop-up as such.
But it appears after a while, It is transparent. Has no information other than a x in a circle and close.
So just annoying to have to keep closing it all the time.
Any ideas
thankyou

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*Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
You can check for issues caused by plugins and set all plugins to "Ask to Activate" on the "Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Plugins" page (plugins are not affected by Firefox Safe Mode)
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+plugins

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