296210 - deerpark UI completely screwed, eats X CPU

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 296698

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Levon]

See the attached screenshot, which is what I get when starting Deer Park Alpha 1
(or today's trunk). All is fine with 1.0.4. System becomes extremely slow as X
is eating CPU, and the broken menus flash on and off all the time.

I'm using x86 Red Hat 9. I've never seen anything like this before on this system.

Comment 1

[John Levon]

Attachment: shot of deerpark at startup

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, can you try again in safe-mode ? Or with a new profile ?

Comment 3

[John Levon]

Safe mode doesn't help. I don't know how to create a new profile on the command
line, and -profilemanager isn't usable as it has the same problems as the
browser proper.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Well, you can always rename the old profile directory or move it to another
location, then Firefox will create a new one automatically. If you saved
everything (profile.ini and pluginreg.dat included), you can always go back to
the old situation.

Comment 5

[John Levon]

Fair point. Still broken.

Comment 6

[rlanday]

I'm having the same problem on Mac OS 10.4.

Comment 7

[John Levon]

Behaviour is somewhat improved with 2005-05-05 nightly, but there are still
serious X usage and display problems. Some dialogs never come up. The URL is not
focusable (Control-L or click). favicons are not correctly resized. X usage for
page info dialog is huge and the fonts are all wrong.

See the new screenshot.

Comment 8

[John Levon]

Attachment: 2005-05-05 nightly shot

Comment 9

[John Levon]

Workaround mentioned in bug 296698 worked for me. dup'ing this to that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 296698 ***