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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:49:45 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        ks@ks6812.spb.edu
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla 1.5 from ports, status line moves up and down problem
Message-ID:  <1069364985.783.83.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20031120225158.T675@tarzan.ru>
References:  <20031120225158.T675@tarzan.ru>

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On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:14, ks@ks6812.spb.edu wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
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> I downloaded Mozilla 1.5 from ports with all patches as of today, and
> after compiling with some options
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> (make WITHOUT_XFT=3Dyes WITHOUT_COMPOSER=3Dyes WITHOUT_LDAP=3Dyes
> WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=3Dyes)
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> or without any options, the same problem persists:
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> Status line is like "blinking": the top of the status line moves up and
> down about 1-2 pixels, and this may also make the rendered HTML document
> to move along. It seems that a line is drawn above the status line, then
> the line disappears, and this repeats 5-7 times per second.
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> This effect is very disturbing and makes documents very difficult to read=
.
> I haven't found any info on this bug either on bugzilla nor on the web,
> but may be I am not the one who has got such problem, and there were othe=
r
> FreeBSD users that experienced and reported the same problem. Mozilla 1.3
> that was installed before didn't have that issue.  Disabling plug-ins
> didn't help. Also I noticed that Mozilla tends to eat up about 33% of CPU
> power, what was never noted before.
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> This is Mozilla 1.5 from ports, it was installed after I deinstalled
> Mozilla 1.3, also from ports. All applications that Mozilla depends on ar=
e
> also from ports. The system is FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE running on Celeron 900
> MHz with 512 Mb of RAM. The video card is NVidia with original "nv" drive=
r
> in XFree86 4.3.0, also from ports.
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> I just think this bug must be very rare that I haven't found any info on
> it anywhere. I think it must be specfic to FreeBSD. May be someone else
> also reported it. May be not. If not, I will simply revert to Mozilla 1.3
> that worked perfectly. Thanks a lot in advance for your precious time!

This is the first time I've heard this reported, and it definitely
doesn't happen to me.  However, I use Xft.  Have you tried clearing out
your ~/.mozilla directory?

Joe

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