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

[Andy Braben]

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.
>>>
>>> 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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> 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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Regards,
Andy
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