gray/black flashing bars on left of screen while on facebook.

[CountryRose_1953]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

the gray/black area is nearly 1/4 of the screen from left toward center. I just upgraded to Karmic Koala from online download through update manager. The problem wasn't there previously..

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 31 03:37:01 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[Brian Mullins (zantocon)]

I am receiving the same error in Lucid after installing a few packages. I haven't tracked down the package yet but I think it may have something to do with a java package that I installed to get a video feed working. (bp's oil feed)

Firefox 3.63 - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64;
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS- Lucid Lynx

[Elizabeth (baldwin-elizabeth)]

I have a similar problem, though it is with many websites, and not 1/4 of screen - more like 1/8.

I am using a fresh install of Lucid but no new java packages, and just upgraded firefox to 3.6.6

Elizabeth

[bretticus (bretticus)]

Kind of annoying really. Probably just bad design on Facebook's part. Just upgraded to FF 3.6.8 (Lucid.) Obviously, no issues in Mac or Windows for me. No issue with Chromium in Ubuntu either. Noticed this as far back as 3.6.6.

[Chuck Heron (chuckheron)]

At least in my case, the problem is the giant flashing text cursor as described in this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/612261
Clicking on an area with smaller text will make the cursor smaller and not so annoying.

[Chuck Heron (chuckheron)]

Preferences -> Advanced -> Un-check "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages"
Fixed it for me..

[David Shea (david-shea241)]

Chuck Heron's fix worked for me as well.