Firefox occasionally won't update it's display (Jaunty and Intrepid)

[thegizmoguy]

Binary package hint: firefox

Sometimes when I'm switching between workspaces and coming back to firefox, it will be "frozen" in the sense that it's still running and stable, it just won't update any of it's content area. I'll click a tab I've had open, the title bar will change, but i'll still be seeing the same old tab. I have to close firefox via the X and restart it to get it back to normal.

This bug has happened to me on Intrepid (8.10) (fully updated with 2.6.27-10 x86 kernel) and now Jaunty (9.04 x64) (Linux unknown 2.6.28-2-generic #3-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 4 21:49:26 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux). It's independent of my profile.

I've had this problem with Compiz set to "full" and "medium".

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
>I've had this problem with Compiz set to "full" and "medium".
So with compiz disabled you have not this problem? Then this seems like a compiz issue. If that is the case, the bug should be filed against compiz.

[thegizmoguy (thegizmoguy)]

No I've never ran Ubuntu with compiz disabled completely...but because of the other bugs I have out...I'll leave it off for a few days to see if I can duplicate this. However, I'm pretty sure it might be a problem with Compiz and Firefox content-update integration (or whatever category it really is :D) I'm pretty sure this problem has only happened when I'm workspace switching. I'll flag this bug as incomplete for now.

[thegizmoguy (thegizmoguy)]

I should also add that I had this happen to me yesterday under Intrepid when I was just using the Google toolbar search.

[thegizmoguy (thegizmoguy)]

Since this issue has been acknowledged by nvidia and fixed in their latest drivers (supposedly), I'm going to mark this as resolved. Officially it was known by nvidia as "a regression on 7 series gpu's that could cause artifacting and non-updating screens"