When opening up FireFox 5 screen goes white

[Robert Mullane]

When opening up FF5 in Unbuntu the screen will go white till I resize the screen. Doesn't matter what website any one of them do it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 25 11:24:00 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
 flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.34ubuntu0.11.04.1
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubfan (ubfan1)]

I sometimes see a white screen in firefox when running 11.04, but only with the Unity interface, not the classical. The "whiteness" is size dependent, it comes and goes as the screen is resized (showing the normal web page when not present). The resizing may be done with the corner resizer or by moving the window to the left to get a half screen. This occurred at the fresh install of Natty, and basically made it unusable for me. Since the installation is on a 4G usb stick which moves between machines, driver confusion may be an issue. The old laptop has Nvidia chips, but the Natty is not set to use them and Unity does not run. The netbook does not have Nvidia. At some point, the 2D Unity was installed, and now I cannot seem to select a Unity interface on the Netbook (which used to run Unity by default). I do not recall seeing the problem with the 2D Unity interface

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Robert,

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 you the bug report will close itself 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.]