[ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

Rowan Berkeley rowan.berkeley at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 08:39:12 UTC 2013


On 28/01/13 08:30, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 28/01/13 07:19, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means
>> approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous
>> display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pixels in
>> size, I should say, ie about the width of a tab in the browser tab bar.
>> I've got this identical effect on two machines, a Lenovo N500 and a
>> Lenovo S206, both running Ubuntu 12.10. I don't think it happens in
>> older versions of Ubuntu. I've searched Launchpad, but I can't find this
>> exactly; there are a few reports of top left Firefox problems, but not
>> this exactly.
>>
>
> Can you get a picture or screenshot of it? I'm having difficulty 
> understanding the issue.
>
> Cheers,
No, Alan, it's a transient event lasting a half-second or so. It happens 
very time I start Firefox on any of these three machines. It doesn't 
cause any problems, but it's a bug nonetheless.



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