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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #72812
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 72812

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In , Ben-bucksch (ben-bucksch) wrote :

Symptoms:
You click on a link and the page loads, but you see no change in the window content. When you force a redraw, e.g. by changing the window size, the page appears immediately.

This is independent of tabs. Bug appears both in the current tab/window as well as if I load the page in a new tab in the background. When I switch to the tab, it's empty = grey. I have to change window size to see the content. Even if I load 3 pages in new background tabs, switch to first, change window size, and switch to second tab, the latter is still empty.

Reproduction:
Not 100% reproducable. It seems to happen the more often the longer the browser is in use without restart. At the moment, the browser is running for less than a day and I see the bug in maybe 30-70% of all page loads.

Severity:
Makes browsing a pain, if you have to resize the window for (almost) *every* *single* link click. Core functionality. -> Major

Builds / Environment:
I have seen this bug in older Mozillas one year ago and in Firefox 2.0b1, on different systems. Currently I use SuSE 10.1, I don't remember the other distros. I have not tested trunk yet, will do.
FWIW, I have not seen this bug in 1.4 or before, IIRC, so this is a regression, but a *very* old one.