278853 - a:hover together with overflow: auto causes flicker on Firefox/Win - may be similar to Bug 26742 ?!

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[stk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

Normal Stylesheet of a.m. URL shows no flicker. Choosing the alternative stylesheet "Win-Firefox-Bug" 
shows the flickering when hovering on the links. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. move mouse close to crosshair in the middle (+10px offset) to see the popup stable
2. avoid overflow: auto in CSS immediately stops flickering
Actual Results:  
Resizing the Page makes the text run out of the popup, so avoiding overflow: auto is only a workaround

Expected Results:  
Add scrollbar to popup which appears on hovering the link an keep the popup stable on the screen

This flickering only appears on Win-Firefox, not on the Linux-Version nor the Mac-Version! Also 
Mozilla Websuite (actual 1.8A6) on WinXP does not show the flickering.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

If this bug only shows in Firefox 1.0 and not in the nightly trunks, then most
probably its already fixed.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Tested this with 1.0 and I can confirm the bug exists, now back on the trunk
build, the bug is no longer visible. --> wfm

This fix is available in the nightly builds:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Or you can wait for Firefox 1.1

Pleae reopen this bug only if you can reproduce with a nightly build