[Bug 87043] Re: Firefox hoverover flickers sometimes

[Bryce Harrington]

I'm able to reproduce this on Jaunty as described in the comments above.
Exact steps to reproduce for me:

1.  Launch a new window opened to www.google.com (or any url with hyperlinks)
2.  Hover mouse over any underlined hyperlink -- behaves normally:  arrow switches to hand with finger
3.  File -> New Tab ; then return to the www.google.com tab
4.  Hover mouse over an underlined hyperlink
5.  Notice that the cursor briefly switches from the arrow to the hand, then immediately back to an arrow.  The status bar also shows the URL briefly, then goes blank.
6.  Nudge mouse around over the link, and it flickers back and forth between arrow and hand

For ordinary links, it is a minor irritation.  It does make the URL in
the status bar unviewable, which is a usability problem.  But where this
really gets annoying is with javascript links, such as JS dropdown
menus; it makes it very tough to select links in these menus.

This system was upgraded from Hardy (I did the upgrade to Intrepid,
verified everything was working, and then went on directly to Jaunty).

I've not been able to reproduce the same flickering behavior in other
apps:  konqueror, xchat-gnome, evince, openoffice.  konqueror works fine
even with multiple tabs open.


firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description:	Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) -- updated as of Jan 5th
Release:	9.04


** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
       Target: None => jaunty-alpha-5

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Firefox hoverover flickers sometimes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/87043
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