Blinking Verical grey bar appears on many websites in recent FF releases

[Jeff Lane ]

Binary package hint: firefox

For a while now I've noticed this, so I'm opening a bug against Firefox for this...

On many websites these days, I get a blinking vertical gray bar on the left hand side of objects in a web page. This occurs on sites like GMail and Facebook and others that use similar technlolgy. It even happens on my personal site that runs Drupal as the content management system.

I don't know what or why this happens, but it's quite annoying. I've attached a screen shot to demonstrate. Unfortunately, I had to take it with my cell-phone camera because my screen-cap software doesn't show the gray bar. even if the gray bar is present in the screen shot preview, it is not present in the final capture.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 19 20:58:09 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
 firefox-branding 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

This shows the big grey bar on facebook...

[Steve Sanbeg (ubuntu-20-ssanbeg)]

I have the same issue, but it goes away, at least temporarily, when I reload the page.

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1

[Vincenzo Capelli (vincenzocapelli)]

I had the same issue.
Solved disabling "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages" into Firefox Preferences --> Advanced --> General --> Accessibility.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Jeff and anyone else affected,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Firefox since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported? Please let us know if you do.

If we do not hear from anyone this bug report will close in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]