381222 - Lines all over Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 376124

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mdavila78]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

This can be better explained with this picture:

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/mdavila78_2007/1.jpg

Or maybe with this image:

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb192/mdavila78_2007/2.jpg

As you can see there are fine black lines crossing the Firefox screen, it all started today (18-May-07).  No additional software was installed today that may cause a bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox
2.In a text box it starts underlining

Actual Results:  
Lines start appearing

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Can you reproduce this:

- in Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- with a new profile
- with a reinstall in a new empty folder?

I tested http://www.seekdotnet.com/ on Windows XP and Firefox 2.0.0.3 but could not replicate your screenshot.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 3

[mdavila78]

I didn't make any changes to the machine but today when I turned on the PC,  everything was fine.

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> changing to works for me, fixed mean in bugzilla a code change in Firefox (like a patch).

Comment 5

[:glob ✱]

if it happens again, see bug 376124

Comment 6

[mdavila78]

The lines started showing again, it seems to happen when you scroll using the middle button of the mouse.