On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:35:54PM +0200, Timo Schöler wrote:
> >I have been having a problem with firefox since i upgraded to 2.0BETA.
> >I have the gtk2 version installed, though, the same problem exists with
> >the gtk1 version.
> >
> >Basically what happens is, when i scroll down a page, there are
> >"residual lines" on the screen.  When i highlight the region with these
> >tracers on it, and click, the lines go away.  I have a feeling it is
> >something with my X installation (or rather, configuration), but i have
> >not seen this problem in any other app, so maybe it is just firefox.
> >
> >Am I missing something in my XF86Config? an invalid option perhaps?
> >
> >The machine is a g4 800 (quicksilver) with an ATI Radeon 7500 video
> >card.
> >
> >Thanks for any help.
> 
> hi,
> 
> i have *the same* problem here (Power Mac G4/400, 1GByte RAM, Radeon 
> 9000 Pro Mac Edition) running 2.0_BETA and -- a few days (5?) ago, 
> -current. firefox and mozilla (okay, if it didn't were this way, one 
> should be surprised ;) with that behaviour.
> 
> no solution yet (exept: have a MOSX machine handy and run the browser 
> remotely ;)

I filed a bug report about this about a week ago, 26955.
If you have additional information, please attach it to the PR.

Seems to be a macppc-specific problem in firefox, but I haven't
been able to test it on something other than i386 and macppc.
It would be interesting to know if it happens on other platforms
too.

Cheers,
 Thomas