310483 - blank page when switching between tabs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Steven]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050927 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050928 Firefox/1.6a1

Since trunk builds from 20050928 if I open a couple of tabs and switch between
them I get a "blank" page. Refreshing will not "repaint" the page and I have to
restart. I use Fedora Core 4 and a screenshot of the problem can be seen here.
http://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1yu.png
I have tried this on my laptop and the same issue exists.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a second tab
2.Move from the first tab to the second then back again.
3.

Actual Results:  
The browser window is blank.

Expected Results:  
A web page should be displayed.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Do you see this when you start firefox with ./firefox safe-mode? (firefox and
firefox-bin must not be running when you start.)

Comment 2

[Will May]

I suffer from this problem and can confirm it still happens under safe-mode. I
first noticed this on the 27th and I update daily.

I am using latest nightly under Linux.

Comment 3

[Steven]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you see this when you start firefox with ./firefox safe-mode? (firefox and
> firefox-bin must not be running when you start.)

As Will has said this also happens in safe mode. Also, I'm glad it's not just
me, thanks for confirming Will. 
Anything else I can try then please let me know.

Steve.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Sounds a bit the same as bug 281709.
Could be a regression from bug 281709.

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050929
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005092922

Could not reproduce this in Windows.

Comment 6

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

dbaron backed bug 281709 out of the trunk today, marking this bug as FIXED, as I
can no longer reproduce it.

Comment 7

[Steven]

Indeed, just updated to - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1)
Gecko/20051001 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005100104 - and all is well! :)