305646 - Firefox display gets replaced by content of other windows and becomes unusable

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Since a build from earlier today trunk builds of firefox have occasionally been
having the graphic display totally overwritten by the content of other open
windows on my system (not firefox ones).

Sometimes some of the display remains and incorrect fonts can be seen on the
webpage. Most often firefox becomes pretty unusable. Right clicking on the
taskbar item brings up a control menu with a black background and text starts to
appear as you move over.

Seen a number of times on trunk build, not once on a branch build. Couldn't find
any steps to reproduce as yet.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050823
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005082308

Comment 1

[Kenny Lee]

I think I know how to reproduce it. Just load 3 or more tabs. 

Comment 2

[Kenny Lee]

Attachment: Screenshot of #305646

Comment 3

[chris hofmann]

Attachment: I think I see the same thing. trunk builds are pretty broken

Comment 4

[chris hofmann]

above attachment is what I got trying to load http://sfgiants.com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050823
Firefox/1.6a1

Comment 5

[chris hofmann]

build was installed via updater

Comment 6

[chris hofmann]

I see the problem after loading the second tab.

Comment 7

[chris hofmann]

after re-starting I couldn't immediately reproduce.  I had been adjusting fonts
up and down earlier today, I wonder if that is also needed to set up the
conditions to see the problem?

Comment 8

[Kenny Lee]

I managed to reproduced by opening 3 tabs and surfing around for a while before
it hits. 
if you use no tab, no problems. 
2 or more and after a while of surfing and tabbing around and it start

Comment 9

[War59312]

Dont see this using blue's build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050823
Firefox/1.6a1 (BlueFyre) ID:2005082312

Comment 10

[War59312]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Dont see this using blue's build:
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050823
> Firefox/1.6a1 (BlueFyre) ID:2005082312

Never mind seeing it now. :(

Comment 11

[chris hofmann]

I heard that vlad has fixed this in recent builds.  vlad?

Comment 12

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

See the dependency, bug 305632.

Comment 13

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I haven't seen this in a couple of days, though of course thats no guarantee
that its gone.

Comment 14

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Haven't been able to reproduce, nor have I explicitly fixed this -- it may have
been related to the view manager issues (we were leaking lots of resources, so
it could be that windows was just erroring out on us after we leaked enough GDI
bits).  Let's track this for a little while longer and see if anyone sees it
happen again.

Comment 15

[Kenny Lee]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050827
Firefox/1.6a1

This build not happening anymore. So does 20050826 build.

So far so good.

Comment 16

[War59312]

I believe it was fixed in the Aug 28th build. I only installed the 26th, 28th,
29th, and 30th and the problem diseappared after installing Aug 28th build.

Comment 17

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Still not seen this again. -> Works for me?

Comment 18

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Yah, I'm going to go for WORKSFORME here.  I'm pretty sure the cause was massive
GDI resource leaks caused by the bug I fixed in 305632; at some point, we just
stopped being able to draw anything.