When you open the firefox browser watch the desktop artifact
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sounds like a desktop refresh hw acceleration issue in firefox
So far it’s happening on every install of various Linux OS’s where the update has come thru
I checked my user agent string and i do run a Gecko engine that run Fx18 and everything seems to be fine. I did do a profile migration when changing from 2.14==>2.15 and have turned off hw acceleration in SeaMonkey as flash plugin was causing issues in Dailymotion site
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15
Build identifier: 2013010500
caf4926 wrote:
>> sounds like a desktop refresh hw acceleration issue in firefox
> So far it’s happening on every install of various Linux OS’s where the
> update has come thru
Not here.
I use opensuse 12.2 64bit with KDE 4.8.5, firefox from the OSS repo,
nvidia drivers from the nvidia repo and all the latest updates.
No problems at all.
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Chris Maaskant
Sure it’s FF18?
My FF says: 18.0.
No problems at all (openSUSE 12.2 and it’s standard KDE).
FF 18.0
No problem here
Same as Chris for versions/sources + intel GM45 graphics + firefox 18. No issues seen on desktop.
caf4926 wrote:
>> Not here.
>> I use opensuse 12.2 64bit with KDE 4.8.5, firefox from the OSS repo,
>> nvidia drivers from the nvidia repo and all the latest updates.
>> No problems at all.
>>
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>> Chris Maaskant
>
> Sure it’s FF18?
>
Yes, i have firefox 18.0.
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Chris Maaskant
just updated to firefox 18 and I too am seeing the artefact - although it only lasts for about 1 second before everything appears as normal.
Running openSUSE 12.2 x86_64, KDE 4.9.5, graphics = intel 45gm
although it only lasts for about 1 second before everything appears as normal.
Correct .
I don’t see it on Tumbleweed, neither with KDE 4.9.5 from the Tw repo, nor with KDE 4.10 RC2, FF = 18
Are you claiming a UFfO sighting? 
I always thought you were special…
LOL. Tomorrow I’m restoring the second SSD to the one RC2 is on.
It must be catching… I’m in the process of giving my eeepc a full work over
UFfo?
Unidentified F*#+ing Firefox Object? rotfl!
I’ve just noticed I also see this when launching chromium - but for a much much shorter period of time - perhaps less than a quarter of a second. So it is probably not something specifically related to Firefox 18.
I think you are right
But it’s white space not the desktop (I minimized everything to make sure the desktop was the background it launches on)