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FS#19135 - firefox looks completely messed up, even on newly created account

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Michael Hellwig (the_eye) - Saturday, 17 April 2010, 15:27 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 17 April 2010, 16:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
My firefox-installation seems to be completely broken. See attached screenshot for a look at what I mean, can't really describe it but it's unusable this way.
Note: I've already tried removing the firefox config, no result and also creating a new virgin user with no settings at all, still the same look (the screenshot is actually from the new user login).
tried on xfce and on kde, no difference.

I have no idea how to even begin debugging this.

Additional info:
* extra/firefox-3.6.3-1

Steps to reproduce:
no idea. On my computer at work, which is also running arch and is at the same package-versions stage (i.e. ran pacman -Syu on both of them yesterday) this does not appear. Nevertheless exact set of installed packages is different.

Please advise on how to proceed from here.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Saturday, 17 April 2010, 16:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 17 April 2010, 16:27 GMT
video driver problem. check forum for fixes
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 17 April 2010, 16:28 GMT Comment by Michael Hellwig (the_eye) - Saturday, 17 April 2010, 16:46 GMT
this does make firefox readable again although I'm seeing the same thing as the others in that thread, i.e. scrolling in firefox causes almost 100% cpu ..
also, weren't we supposed to stop using an xorg.conf, it being deprecated and all?
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Saturday, 17 April 2010, 16:46 GMT
blame your card/video driver.

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