On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > fairly recently, i've noticed a couple annoying bits of behaviour > > that appear to be related to running firefox when there's a youtube > > image embedded in the web page being displayed. > > > > first, if the displayed page has a youtube image and i refresh that > > page, what i notice, up in the top left corner of my desktop, is a > > sudden "flickering" of whatever happens to be there, in exactly the > > dimensions of a youtube image. it doesn't matter where the browser is > > on the desktop, or whether the youtube image is even *visible* (it > > might be scrolled down) -- i'll get that same flickering, and always > > in the same place -- top left of the display. (if that instance of > > the browser is displaying a page without a youtube image, no problem.) > > > > and not as frequently, when firefox eventually (and *inevitably* i > > might add) finally just grinds to a halt (memory leak?), i'll just do > > "killall firefox-bin" and, occasionally, it will leave a youtube image > > sized white rectangle on the desktop, and there is absolutely nothing > > i can do to get rid of it short of logging out and restarting the > > desktop entirely. > > > > that white box is visible across all four virtual desktops, and > > behaves as if it's sitting on top, so any client i move across it gets > > wiped as long as it's underneath. > > > > is anyone else seeing this? it's kind of annoying. > > > > rday > > > > p.s. this is on a gateway laptop with an ATI video chip, if that > > helps. > > > > Can you give an example of such page? > Are you using radeon driver or fglrx driver for your ATI card? whoops, my bad ... this is on my only gateway laptop that *doesn't* have an ATI card: $ lspci ... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) ... and the "flickering" is entirely reproducible, and starts up immediately after entering X. so no one else is seeing this behaviour? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
