I last saw this recently, though I still can't reproduce it at will. It happens in both GNOME and Xfce.
Recently I also had another bug: the "You are about to view an encrypted page that contains some unencrypted information" alert sometimes appeared on https://webmail.ox.ac.uk, which hadn't triggered such a warning before and according to its technical support shouldn't.
I last saw this recently, though I still can't reproduce it at will. It happens in both GNOME and Xfce.
Recently I also had another bug: the "You are about to view an encrypted page that contains some unencrypted information" alert sometimes appeared on https:/ /webmail. ox.ac.uk, which hadn't triggered such a warning before and according to its technical support shouldn't.
This may be a duplicate of https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ firefox/ +bug/60236; I have not tried any of their suggested workarounds.
I will try -safe-mode next time I see the bug.