Firefox is still crazy.

oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Fri Aug 4 03:53:50 UTC 2006


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Dirk Remmelt wrote:
> Hello Jim
> 
> until today I had the same problem with FC 5.91 (FC6 Test2). Because no
> update solved it, I looked into it by comparing the used libraries in
> programs which had the display problem (i.e. firefox, evolution,
> tsclient) and others which hadn't.
> 
> The reason for the display problem is the cairo package in the
> development repository. By using the latest cairo package of the FC5
> update repository there should be no problems.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> On 7/31/06, Jim Bevier <jim jbsys com> wrote:
>> I have all the updates as of today from Rawhide.  For the last several
>> days, Firefox has not been displaying test correctly.  When I open
>> Firefox, I get Fedora Core 5.91 release notes displayed.  However,
>> only the underlined and bold text is displayed.  If I scroll the page,
>> all the text will appear and looks fine.  As soon as another program
>> get focus, the text disappears again.  Clicking back on Firefox and
>> scrolling the page will return the text.  Is this OS, Firefox, X11,
>> or ?  Any ideas?  I have an X86_64 system with NVIDIA card and use
>> KDE.
>>
>> Jim
> 

	I also see this problem under KDE, but it works fine under gnome.  The
problem also shows under rhythmbox.

My machine is a i386 with ATI radeon 7200 video card.

Scott
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