433745 - Context Menus getting messed up in Windows XP and Vista after installing Firefox 3b5

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Stevo Myers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

Since installing Firefox 3b5 I have seen right-click menus not paint correctly.  In Windows Vista (32-bit) right-clicking an icon would paint menu items when moused over.  Windows XP Professional (32-bit) clicking on Desktop toolbar from the taskbar would not paint the menu at all.  This began after installing and running FF3b5 on both machines.

Typical tabs/windows open are: Tab1 - iGoogle home page; Tab2 - Gmail; Pop-out Window - gChat (typically only one).

Reproducible: Sometimes

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This is something that I have noticed just twice, once on two separate machines.  This was not a problem before FF3b5.  I was running FF2 until yesterday, and saw the bug on the vista box yesterday, and the windows box today.

Only a restart was able to return the machine to normal.  Almost like the rendering engine of FF was jacking up the video driver.

Vista laptop running: Nvidia GeForce 8600m 256mb
XP Pro Quad Core running: ATI Radeon x1950 256mb

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.x or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 2

[Stevo Myers]

I have not seen the problem repeated since those initial instances.  Considered resolved.  Thank you.