235008 - seems like mozilla-firefox is giving strange signals to the XFree window system when visiting certain websites

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[samuel verstraete]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8

When I visit the websites http://www.sudhian.com & http://hardwarezone.com
mozillafirebird starts freaking... I know this is not a good discription of the
problem but check the screenshots I 'll add

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. just visit the two links above and scroll down... the problem immediately starts
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
screen turns into a strange color with even stranger patterns on it...

Expected Results:  
just show the webpage normally

screenshots will be added later on

Comment 1

[samuel verstraete]

Attachment: screenshot

you can see that the wrong "rendering" even happens outside mozilla

Comment 2

[samuel verstraete]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 3

[samuel verstraete]

Attachment: screenshot

this is how everything should look

Comment 4

[samuel verstraete]

I first thought it was my hardware that was causing the problem (after all the
artifacts are not only in the MozillaFirefox window) but I only get this problem
with MozillaFirefox and only with these two websites...
I do not know if I get the same problem with other browsers but it seems likely
to my that it is actually gecko that is causing the problem

Comment 5

[samuel verstraete]

I cannot reproduce the error with my "Microsoft Windows" computer... so it seems
to me that it is only under linux... and even only on my computer....

Comment 6

[Nilson Cain]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

Reporter:  Do you experience these problems with Firefox 0.9 and a new profile?

Comment 7

[Nile]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040727 Firefox/0.9.1+

Both sites work fine for me.

I noticed that the first website requires an octet-stream mime type (I think)?
The second requires flash. Perhaps that's the issue.

Comment 8

[Nilson Cain]

This Still WFM Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041224
Firefox/1.0+


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