700186 - Windows/desktop are showing through the firefox window.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Mr.Bo]

Attachment: Screen Glitch1.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111102223350

Steps to reproduce:

While browsing normally I notice this problem on certain sites. I have checked to see if this happens with Chrome, or IE, and it does not.


Actual results:

The desktop, or any window behind the Firefox window shows through Firefox.


Expected results:

the website images should appear correctly

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Nice effect:)

OK, try to disable HW acceleration in tools->options->advanced->general.

Comment 2

[Mr.Bo]

Thanks :aceman.  That totally did the trick.

Comment 3

[:aceman]

Well, good to hear that, but we'll still need to find the culprit.
Could you enable HW acceleration again, restart Firefox and post contents of the Graphics section of about:support here?

Comment 4

[Mr.Bo]

  Graphics

        Adapter Description
        NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+

        Vendor ID
        10de

        Device ID
        0612

        Adapter RAM
        512

        Adapter Drivers
        nvd3dum nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um

        Driver Version
        8.17.12.8562

        Driver Date
        10-15-2011

        Adapter RAM (GPU #2)
        Unknown

        Adapter Drivers (GPU #2)
        Unknown

        Direct2D Enabled
        true

        DirectWrite Enabled
        true (6.1.7601.17563)

        ClearType Parameters
        ClearType parameters not found

        WebGL Renderer
        Google Inc. -- ANGLE -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.686)

        GPU Accelerated Windows
        1/1 Direct3D 10

Comment 5

[:aceman]

OK, you seem to have uptodate drivers.

Do you know when it started?
Can you give any URLs where this happens? You said only on some sites.

Comment 6

[Mr.Bo]

I just updated to the newest video drivers the day before posting this bug in case the issue was on my side.  It has been happening for a few weeks at least.  Possibly a month.  I believe it started when I updated Firefox to version 7. I am currently using version 8.  I first noticed it on Facebook.  The blue top bar would show up as translucent, and I would be able to see my desktop through it.  I thought it was possibly a Facebook issue.  When I first visited the guild site below I noticed the same issue, but a lot worse so I tested the same sites on IE, and Chrome with no problems at all.

It happens all the time on this site:  http://synergy.swtorlaunch.net/