Monday March 03, 2008 More FireFox 3 Weirdness
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Certain sites (like this one), just don't want to render correctly. It seems to blit a copy of part of my screen desktop into the browser window. Some kind of memory glitch? This is on a Ferrari 3400 running latest Ubuntu Hardy. |
I'm also seeing problems with certain images just showing up as a black rectangle. Like the one on this web page. If I right click and do a View Image on it, then the image shows just fine.
I'm told by Joanie that this is just a problem with the version of Firefox 3 that currently comes with Ubuntu Hardy. If you build it from the latest source, the problem goes away. I haven't tried that yet, and would rather not.
So... anybody else seen this or know what to tweak (or untweak) to fix it?
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I'm seeing the same problem. I suspect it's something to do with a bad interaction between FF3 and the xorg ATI driver, but have no solution.
Also, a bug has been opened at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414928
Posted by Ray Lee on March 03, 2008 at 09:16 AM PST #
Happened to me too while using the nightly builds and betas. Only on intel gfx. Seems to go away when switching from XAA to EXA. That's on PLD Linux (not Debian-based).
Posted by Patrys on March 03, 2008 at 09:22 AM PST #
use cairo packages from the following repository:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu hardy main
they contain a fix for the rendering errors.
Posted by madman2k on March 03, 2008 at 09:22 AM PST #
I went through each of your links here with latest Hardy, and none appear to be an issue for me... are you using Compiz? (as of 3/3/08, all updates applied)
Posted by Frank on March 03, 2008 at 09:44 AM PST #
Thanks for all the comments. I tried madman2k's
suggested solution. It installed a load of new
packages. It asked me to restart Firefox, but that
didn't fix the problem. I also tried rebooting but
no difference.
I'm not running compbiz. In fact, I can't run
compbiz. When I try changing that via
Preferences->Appearance, the screen goes "white"
then it resets it to None after it times out.
I think I'll add myself to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414928
and see what comes up there.
Posted by Rich Burridge on March 03, 2008 at 10:05 AM PST #
I am still on Gutsy so I can't see if I get the same issue. I just usually run the Mozilla trunk builds.
Does the Mozilla build of 3.0 beta3 have the same issue for you? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Posted by Dave Wolovich on March 03, 2008 at 10:19 AM PST #
Hi Dave.
Um, yes and no. Yes, it renders
http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/hiteck/projects/albumart/
correctly for me now, and no, it still shows the
image on:
http://justanothertechblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/funny.html
as a black rectangle.
Hope that helps (somebody).
Posted by Rich Burridge on March 03, 2008 at 10:44 AM PST #
It's related with high dpi laptop screens.
Bug 178558 on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178558
And 394103 on Mozilla's bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394103
Please report there (specially on launchpad) your experiences and problems.
Posted by bisho on March 03, 2008 at 03:31 PM PST #
bisho thanks, but that really doesn't feel like
the problem that I'm seeing. I'm not seeing
anything huge. Still I'll make a note of them.
Posted by Rich Burridge on March 03, 2008 at 04:02 PM PST #
PNGs with transparency are what cause the problem. I filed a bug here but so far no reply from the Mozilla team:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416243
This has been around for at least 4 months in FF3 alpha builds, but I couldn't find any other mention of it in Mozilla Bugzilla. I've personally seen it on three different systems now.
Posted by Luke on March 03, 2008 at 04:20 PM PST #
Thanks Luke! I've added myself to the cc:
Posted by Rich Burridge on March 03, 2008 at 04:25 PM PST #
See last comments on the bug. After the fix, some people is starting to see the black boxes on high dpi screens.
Posted by bisho on March 04, 2008 at 12:04 AM PST #
I had the problem too (at leadt the corrupted background taken from various parts of the desktop itself), but only a few times, and restarting firefox cured it. I've not seen it in the past days, but it does not mean it's fixed of course ;) because it's was a rare problem for me.
Posted by LGB on March 04, 2008 at 11:18 AM PST #
I think there is a second problem causing image invisibility, I just added another bug about it to bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422655
Posted by Luke on March 13, 2008 at 07:49 AM PDT #
Thanks Luke. I wimped out and went back to FF2.
Now the only problem I have is that every time I
do a "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and there is an
update for FF3, it screws up my "FF2 is my default
browser" setting and it'll no longer automatically
open URL's from apps like Thunderbird and pidgin
in the browser. Sigh.
Posted by Rich Burridge on March 13, 2008 at 07:59 AM PDT #