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

[Tony Pursell]

On 28 January 2013 08:39, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I get this too - its a square of pixels about the size described above.  I
am running 12.04 fully updated.  I get it on my desktop PC.

Tony
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