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

[Tony Pursell]

On 28 January 2013 10:00, Andy Braben <andybraben at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 28 January 2013 09:42, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>wrote:
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>> On 28 January 2013 08:39, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On 28/01/13 08:30, Alan Pope wrote:
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>>>> On 28/01/13 07:19, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> Can you get a picture or screenshot of it? I'm having difficulty
>>>> understanding the issue.
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>>>> Cheers,
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>>> 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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>> 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.
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>> Tony
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>> Happens to me as well on 12.10 on various machines.
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Here is a video of it

http://ubuntuone.com/6bLjs3mIRLcQFqJdxSFckn

Tony
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