[Bug 354876] [NEW] firefox sometimes fails to draw selected tabs

[Rocko]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Occasionally firefox gets into a state where it fails to redraw its
contents window when you click on a tab to select it. It does change the
firefox window title to the name of the tab, indicating that it knows
you tried to select it, but the content window remains the same. See the
attached image, where I've clicked on the "Bug #354216..." tab and this
is displayed in the firefox title window but firefox's content window is
stuck on "Latest news..." (the Guardian website).

Once it gets in this state, it doesn't matter how many times you click
on individual tabs, it won't redraw the contents.

Minimizing and restoring the firefox window fixes the problem.

I don't think it's a compiz (1:0.8.2-0ubuntu6) or nvidia (180.44)
problem because it doesn't look like the normal refresh problems that
compiz used to cause and because I've got the latest compiz-fusion-
plugins-main (0.8.2-0ubuntu2) which is supposed to fix them.

I've only noticed this very recently, approximately since the Jaunty
beta release.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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firefox sometimes fails to draw selected tabs
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