297492 - random abberations after clicking on links or pressing back or forward, typically where javascript is present

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Drips]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I'm sorry for not being more detailed, but I don't know exactly what the problem
is. I don't find this bug particularly annoying, but I figured I should at least
report it.
Basically, sometimes when I click on a link, or do something that may or may not
require a change in the webpage, there is this sort of digital static displayed
that looks like part of the website went through a blender. Selecting all
removes the abberation and if the abberation covers link, hovering over the
links will remove the abberration over them.
I think this is a DOM issue, I'm not sure, so I left it under general.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Don't try to reproduce this bug, just be randomly using firefox;
2. And then all the sudden there's this wierd static that you know you've seen
before but can't describe it;
3. And then look like an idiot for filing a bug that you can't reproduce

Actual Results:  
Wierd abberation

Expected Results:  
No abberation.

Please see the attachment.

Comment 1

[John Drips]

Attachment: Example of what an abberation looks like.

Sorry for my weird color preferences. Notice how the "View Profile" link that I
had hovered over got rid of the abberation right there. Also, it looks a little
irregular because of the lossy jpeg format, sorry, wanted to keep it small.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

it looks like a graphic driver issue.

Comment 3

[John Drips]

I would think so myself, but I've seen it on several completely different
computers, and only with firefox. I've never seen anything like this happen in
any other program.
I filed this as trivial because I don't want any time to be spent on it solely
because of my filing this bug. Of course, maybe it's my settings or one of my
extensions, but I'd like to see if other people are noticing this problem to see
if it is worth working on. But even if other people are seeing this, it is
definitely a cosmetic issue.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Of course, maybe it's my settings or one of my
> extensions, but I'd like to see if other people are noticing this problem to see
> if it is worth working on. But even if other people are seeing this, it is
> definitely a cosmetic issue.

Extension related problems really shouldn't be filed in Bugzilla. They should be
taken up with the maker of that extension.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

John, I've got three things for you to try.

1) Can you reproduce this in a clean profile?
2) Do you still see this when using "normal" Windows colors? It looks like
you're using a tweaked out theme.
3) Can you reproduce this with the same settings in 1.0.7 as you can in 1.5 beta 1?

Comment 7

[u63580]

(In reply to comment #6)
> John, I've got three things for you to try.
> 
> 1) Can you reproduce this in a clean profile?
> 2) Do you still see this when using "normal" Windows colors? It looks like
> you're using a tweaked out theme.
> 3) Can you reproduce this with the same settings in 1.0.7 as you can in 1.5 beta 1?

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