Page does not render, old tab appears in place

[Luke Faraone]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

If you visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PNG_transparency_demonstration_1.png in FF3 in hardy, you see that the page does not display, nor does a blank tab appear. The contents of the prior tab is kept in the window, even when switching to the tab that contains that page.

If you scroll up or down, some of the page becomes viewable, and clicking and holding down the left click button and selecting text is the only way to make it visible.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 5 10:50:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox 3.0~b4+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic x86_64

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

It seems to have been fixed in a subsequent update.

[Li (lima01)]

Althought I cannot replicate your issue on the URL you previously provided, I do have similar issue on another website: www.wenxuecity.com

Try to open about 10 links from the page into different tabs. Then close a tab with CTRL-W. You will see the content of the closed TAB does not disapear. It covers content of the new TAB. Need to scroll the page a bit to see the whole content of the new TAB.

Switch TAB by clicking on them will result the same problem. It seams to happen on this particular website only.

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

@Li,

Can you give the spesific URL that is causing you issues?

I am unable to replicate your issue either (ironically...)

[Alessandro Isaia (alex69)]

I've got a real up to date interepid version
onboard GPU: geforce 9500 GT with last recomended driver (177)
CPU: intel dual core 2 duo