Flash leaves ghost image in browsers, evince, possibly others

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 02:05:26 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 01:05 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:

> 
> A few days ago, I went to a web site (can't remember which one, darn
> it) and there was a flash video up on that site.  After I left that
> web page, the image of the flash video remained on the screen in the
> browser's background image.  If I moved the browser window, the
> artifact stays in place and will disappear if I move the browser off
> it altogether, until I bring the browser back over the space on the
> screen where the artifact was, and it's back.
> 
> This happens both in Chrome and Firefox (3.6 or 4.0), and today I
> noticed that it also bleeds through in evince.  It does not show if I
> put a terminal window over the spot, but QT also does the same thing.

Did you clear your history, say for the last hour, when it happened, to
see if that removed the offending bit?? :) Ric

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