786792 - Certain websites cause everything but the content window to change to a blue tint

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Christopher Schultz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Build ID: 20120824154833

Steps to reproduce:

Visited this web site: http://wheelcode.blogspot.com/


Actual results:

Content window stays normal, everything else on the screen (like EVERYTHING: tabs, desktop, application menu -- this is OS X, so it's on the *top* of the screen), dock, etc) turns to a very obviously blue tint.


Expected results:

Er, no color changes -- especially outside of the content window.

Comment 1

[Christopher Schultz]

Note that the tint goes away after a few seconds.

Upon closer inspection, the entire screen goes blue -- just hard to tell with the site's background.

I have disabled all plug-ins, but not add-ons (listed below) and the problem is repeatable, every time: just go to another post on that site and the screen will go blue again. A page-reload will also do it.

AdBlock+ 2.1.2
Collusion 0.16.3
DOM Inspector 2.0.12
Live HTTP Headers 0.17
MD5 Reborned Hasher 0.9.0
S3Fox 0.6
Web Developer 1.2.1
YesScript 1.9

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please try it with the firefox safemode : http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

This is either addon related or due to a driver issue with the graphic hardware acceleration and the safemode disables both.

Comment 3

[Christopher Schultz]

Running in safemode did not change the behavior. It is fully reproduceable, so I'm happy to try all kinds of combinations.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I have no clue what it could be and we don't got other reports about this issue as far as I know.

Comment 5

[Christopher Schultz]

I can reproduce this on two other machines running Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in otherwise slightly different configurations (i.e. they do not belong to me).

Comment 6

[Mihaela Velimiroviciu (:mihaelav)]

Christopher, did you try the same with other browsers (opera, chrome, safari)? Is it the same?

Comment 7

[Christopher Schultz]

I think I've identified the cause of this problem. Both Google Chrome and VMware Fusion trigger this behavior. It appears that switching from integrated graphics to discrete graphics (which OSX does automatically when asked to do certain operations, it appears) causes this odd behavior:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1401741

The fact that I have an SSD and/or FileVault2 may be contributing.

I believe this is not a bug in Firefox but something in OSX that needs fixing.