240540 - Textarea / textbox on Mac OS X garbled garbage characters (nvidia video)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[xtrucial]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: 

Text fields begin to show choppiness and blending of characters as you type...
making it difficult to see your position in a sentence, or edit properly.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a page with a textbox (textarea tag)
2. Start typing

Actual Results:  
slowdown and blending of text

Expected Results:  
Normal speed, no blending of text

Using default fonts, default theme

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

[e-mail], what Firefox build are you reporting this bug against? You
filed this bug using Firefox 0.8 for Windows, but reported it as a Mac OS X problem.

Comment 2

[xtrucial]

(In reply to comment #1)
> [e-mail], what Firefox build are you reporting this bug against? You
> filed this bug using Firefox 0.8 for Windows, but reported it as a Mac OS X
problem.

I am reporting this for Firefox for Mac OS X. I had to forgo getting the right
User Agent string because I was at work on a Windows machine at the time. Sorry
for the confusion.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

[e-mail], what build ID are you using? (See the About box.)

Comment 4

[xtrucial]

Here is the User Agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206
Firefox/0.8

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

[e-mail], since that build is a couple of months old by now, please
retest using a current nightly build.

Comment 6

[Uri Bernstein]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041006 Firefox/0.10.

Reported on an old buid; reporter did not respond to request to try on recent
build. Please re-open if reproduced on a recent build.