906789 - Firefox displays page with missing or garbaged characters

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[Rajiv]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

When displaying a web page some single characters are garbage. This is most noticable when displaying pages like Facebook when there are a number of page application causing the page text to be re-written. If you have a lot of this re-write activity you can see random characters disappear ( interesting the "a" was garbage after typing) and reappear. 


Actual results:

The first being where the "m" is missing from the Talking Points Memo header. The second is in the ad for Discover Card, the "c" in bank is garbage.


Expected results:

The first being where the "m" is missing from the Talking Points Memo header. The second is in the ad for Discover Card, the "c" in bank is garbage.

Comment 1

[Rajiv]

This bug report was originally filed by Cliff Carson on the Ubuntu Launchpad Bug Tracker. Log files and screenshots are available here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1214051

Comment 2

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Could you please try the following, to see if you still reproduce the issue :

1) try this with a clean profile: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2) running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Also, it might be a good idea to update your GPU driver.