546669 - Vertical black bars appear in the tabs of FF and in print preview with Windows 7 Classic mode

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dupagnem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

This problem seems to be happening with Windows 7 in Classic Mode. There are vertical black bars at the end of the text in the tab when the text is long. If I go back to the regular Windows 7 desktop, these bars are gone. In addition, more problematically, the printing capability is affected. In some instances, bars are inserted when I view the text in print review, or  the text turned into complete gibberish. I have no such problems when I use IE 8.0. I do not have these problems with the latest FF browser with XP.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Windows Classic theme in Windows 7
2. Go to the New York Times site. See the vertical bar in the tab.
3. Go to http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/student-facebook-tirade-against-teacher-is-protected-speech/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29 to print or print preview the text to see the vertical bars within the text or the printed gibberish.
Actual Results:  
2. Vertical bar in the tab 
3. Vertical bars in the print preview or printed gibberish

Expected Results:  
2. No vertical bar in the tab
3. No vertical bars in the print preview. Text should be printed normally.

Comment 1

[dupagnem]

Attachment: Screenshot of vertical bar in the tab

Comment 2

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Attachment: Vertical bars in the text in Print Preview

Comment 3

[dupagnem]

Attachment: Screenshot of gibberih text as a result of the vertical bars

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Does this still happen in firefox 3.6.6 or later? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles test a new profile.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, does this still happen with Firefox 4.0.1 or later, the latest graphics drivers and windows updates and a fresh profile? http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 6

[dupagnem]

No, it does not. Thank you for checking.