firefox tabs and menu items dissapear

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Hi all

For a while i’m experiencing this anoyance with Firefox .
Some menu tabs and most window tabs disappear in firefox ,
when i move the mouse over menu and tabs ( where they supposed to be ), they reappear for a moment and disappear again .
Opening multi window tabs , mostly the second last tab is visible .
Sometimes i forget and close the previous tab , thinking i close the last page i was looking .
I’m running KDE3 on 13.1 . Firefox and all up to date .
I remember a few years back , i had the same problem with an previous distribution but i don’t remember the number .
I got rid of it by distribution upgrade , thats all i remember .
I was reading a lot about problems with firefox but could not find what i show .
Seamonkey has it also .
Chromium , Midori and Opera no problem .
T.I.A .
rudi

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It is probably a graphics driver problem. So you need to tell us what graphics you are using.

My guess is that firefox is using graphics acceleration that is not well supported for your card. You can try turning off graphics acceleration in firefox, to the extent that is possible.

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Thanks for your quick reply .

acceleration is turned off , i was trying already turning it on and off , but it has no effect .
usually i search the internet for answers , but not this time , couldn’t find the solution .

      #  /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2


01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780L [Radeon 3000] [1002:9616]
    Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device [1849:9616]
            Kernel driver in use: radeon
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I suggest that you try installing the proprietary drivers for your card.

I don’t have any personal experience with doing that, but others here can probably step in and offer HowTo advice.

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A Radeon 3000 is not supported any more by the proprietary driver.

Can you reproduce the problem in Recovery Mode? (Advanced Options in the boot menu)

Can you please install the package “Mesa-demo-x” and post the output of this? (as user when booting normally, not Recovery Mode)

glxinfo | grep render

Does the problem also occur when you disable Desktop Effects? (Shift+Alt+F12)
Oops sorry, forget that last thing. That doesn’t apply to KDE3.

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Thanks for your time and help , much appreciated .
I don’t use desktop effects .
Mesa-demo-x is already installed .

output :

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.3, 128 bits)
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_NV_light_max_exponent
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This means that the radeon driver is not or not fully working, you are using Mesa’s software renderer.

Could you please post the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
This should provide a clue why.

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having problems posting that file :

  • The text that you have entered is too long (40850 characters). Please shorten it to 15000 characters long.

going to upload somewere …and post a link , sorry

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http://tinyurl.com/ouv33da

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Right, that is the preferred way here.
Should have mentioned it, sorry.

Your log contains this:

    23.957] (II) RADEON(0): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS

AFAIK this is mostily caused by missing firmware.
Do you have kernel-firmware installed?

Do you have NO_KMS_IN_INITRD=“no” in /etc/sysconfig/kernel?

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No kernel-firmware ,
i removed kernel-firmware due to problems , but don’t remember what exactly …

I show NO_KMS_IN_INITRD=“yes”

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Please install “kernel-firmware”, set NO_KMS_IN_INITRD=“no”, and run “sudo /sbin/mkinitrd”.
This should solve your problem.

I don’t think kernel-firmware should cause any problems. It contains firmware that is needed to operate some hardware like certain Radeon cards.

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On 06/16/2014 03:26 PM, bismarel pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Hi all
>
> For a while i’m experiencing this anoyance with Firefox .
> Some menu tabs and most window tabs disappear in firefox ,
> when i move the mouse over menu and tabs ( where they supposed to be ),
> they reappear for a moment and disappear again .
> Opening multi window tabs , mostly the second last tab is visible .
> Sometimes i forget and close the previous tab , thinking i close the
> last page i was looking .
> I’m running KDE3 on 13.1 . Firefox and all up to date .
> I remember a few years back , i had the same problem with an previous
> distribution but i don’t remember the number .
> I got rid of it by distribution upgrade , thats all i remember .
> I was reading a lot about problems with firefox but could not find what
> i show .
> Seamonkey has it also .
> Chromium , Midori and Opera no problem .
> T.I.A .
> rudi
>
>

The menu items in the newer releases of Firefox disappear automatically,
hit the left <Alt> to make them appear briefly. Not sure why the tabs
are disappearing.

Ken

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Ok , i’ll give it a try again .

thanks .

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no success ,

installed kernel-firmware ,
set NO_KMS_IN_INITRD=“no” and run “sudo /sbin/mkinitrd”

i forgot to mention , last few days i have difficulties to “copy” ,
to mark some text to be copied
that’s why i started to search again for a solution …

made a printscreen ,
notice edit and view in menu and no window-tabs visible
only the + sign to open another tab .
should show 7 tabs

**http://tinyurl.com/l7ahx3o

**

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OK, but is the radeon driver now working?

glxinfo | grep render

And maybe the Xorg.0.log again, please.

And have you tried already whether this also happens in Recovery Mode? (Advanced Options in the boot menu)

Also try to disable the boot splash by adding “plymouth.enable=0” to the boot options. With grub2 press ‘e’ at the boot menu, append that to the line starting with “linux=” and press ‘F10’ to boot. Sometimes this can interfere with the graphics driver.

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~> glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780
    GL_MESA_texture_signed_rgba, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp,
    GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render,

xorg.0.log should be there

again thanks for your time and help

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sorry uploaded the old log
re-uploaded the last log

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Ok, so the driver does work now.

But you still have those corruptions?

Does “plymouth.enable=0” help? (see the previous post)

Does the problem persist in Recovery Mode? That would rule out the graphics driver.

Does it work in a different Desktop Environment/Window Manager? IceWM should be installed by default, you can select it at the login screen (if you have Auto-Login enabled, just logout to get to the login screen)

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problem persist in failsafe
added plymouth.enable=0 , no difference

works fine in IceWM