no text visible in firefox for many popular websites

[toobuntu]

google.com (with and without ssl), yahoo.com, finance.yahoo.com, ask.com, bing.com, amazon.com

maybe this is a problem with xserver-xorg-video-nouveau instead
$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:
  Installed: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
  Candidate: 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ lspci -vvnn | grep VGA\ controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTX 460M] [10de:0dd1] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

$ lsmod | awk '/^drm/{print $4}'
nouveau
nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper

$ lsmod | head -n 1 && lsmod | grep nouveau
Module Size Used by
nouveau 774586 3
ttm 76949 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 42489 1 nouveau
drm 241834 5 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13423 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 12979 1 nouveau
video 19411 1 nouveau

$ sudo lshw -C display -sanitize
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GF106 [GeForce GTX 460M]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:f4000000-f4ffffff memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f6000000-f607ffff

$ dpkg -l | grep flash | grep ^ii

$ dpkg -l | grep gnash | grep ^ii
ii browser-plugin-gnash 0.8.10~git20111001-1ubuntu1 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Plugin for Mozilla and derivatives
ii gnash 0.8.10~git20111001-1ubuntu1 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player
ii gnash-common 0.8.10~git20111001-1ubuntu1 GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Common files/libraries
ii mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.10~git20111001-1ubuntu1 dummy package for renaming to browser-plugin-gnash

$ uname -srvmo
Linux 3.2.0-17-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 17 21:35:49 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -dr
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 11.0~b3+build2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: ubuntu 5460 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 5460 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20120216222907
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf6500000 irq 57'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC892'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0892,15585102,00100302'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 20
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf6080000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 11 HDMI/DP'
   Components : 'HDA:10de0011,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 4
CasperVersion: 1.304
Channel: beta
Date: Wed Feb 22 16:54:07 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.10.1 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.10.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.82 metric 1
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120220)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=11.0/20120216222907 (Running)
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: yes
  Hard blocked: no
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/15/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4.6.4
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Applicable
dmi.board.name: P150HMx
dmi.board.vendor: CLEVO
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: CLEVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Applicable
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4.6.4:bd02/15/2011:svnCLEVO:pnP150HMx:pvrNotApplicable:rvnCLEVO:rnP150HMx:rvrNotApplicable:cvnCLEVO:ct10:cvrNotApplicable:
dmi.product.name: P150HMx
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: CLEVO

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

toobuntu,

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 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.]