firefox and youtube droppings

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 20:32:17 UTC 2007


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?






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